Response from: Tim

With regards to keyword "stuffing". You only have to mention it once in a link, not twice. Any consequetive mention is redundant. And you only have to have ONE link on the website with the keyword. All other links with the same keywords to the same page are also considered redundant by search engines so they don't help.

Response from: Management Consultant

Agree with Tim. Our research shows that in the short run you might be able to deceive a spider but not for too long. All an engineer at Google or Yahoo needs to do is to change one line of code and your weeks of efforts is wasted. So as the search engine firms say, it is best to design a website for your readers, not for spiders. If your readers like it, the search engines will like it too, and you will win. We have never hired a search engine optimization firm and hardly ever worry about search engines, but our readers love us and we get as much traffic as we expect.

Response from: Effective Business Communication

Agreed in the most part. Except that I think that anyone who is so sure of how a search engine works is deceiving her/himself.

Response from: Business Hints

Hey! How do you define search engine spam. I think this is subjective.

Response from: Major Business

The comments by Tim and Management Consultant might well be true. But, then again they may not. What intrigues me is the large number of people who seem to "know" how search engines think!