ronburk - 12:24 am on Mar 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

It is flat out wrong to penalize anyone for something their webmaster may be doing wrong if they don't know it is wrong in the first place.

Well, if the little girl across the street is selling lemonade laced with arsenic, should I keep sending people over to buy lemonade from her just because she's completely innocent and doesn't know she's doing anything wrong? How was she to know that the industrial tap she's drawing water from has arsenic in it?

Unless... someone kindly tells her.

Seems like a better outlet for strong moral feelings on the subject might be to show folks how to get out of bad neighborhoods and explain to them why they need to do that so that you can then link to them.

And is it really that hard to beat out folks who have more IBL than you? Hmmm, I'm curious whether your Google traffic is overfocused on a tiny number of keyword/page pairs, and what your Google Stability Number [webmasterworld.com] is.