whitem59 - 2:47 am on Aug 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

Thanks for posting that Marcia:

It is interesting that he said the following:

^{There is an important message here though, especially for the smaller webmaster. Let's define that as: you manage a single-digit number of domains, or you read here to promote your own personal site, or you don't do SEO for a living. The message is pretty simple, and it's one that full-time SEO's should already know: SEO can at times be dangerous to the health of your site. Please be careful out there on the net, alright?}

I totally ignored SEO and simply created sites. That worked great up until this year when some of my sites started getting penalized for cross-linking - I figure that is what it was because removal of the cross links returned my old PR. Anyway, I would say that not knowing what could get you in trouble leads to bad inadvertant consequences. Not knowing the basics of SEO,IMO, is more dangerous to your health than practicing it to some degree.