martinibuster - 6:20 am on Feb 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

Remain at the bottom of the pile is right.

Sometimes it's easier to think that someone is cheating, or to blame cheating, than to spend several days emailing hundreds of link requests.

Or taking a couple hours out of the day here and there to study the serps, to honestly and truly glean an understanding of why a search engine returns the particular results that it does.

Around twenty years ago I played hooky from work to go fishing off a nearby pier, as there was an unusual tide bringing salmon close to shore. All around me the old guys were pulling up salmon long as my arm. Salmon after salmon.

My pole never got a nibble. Were the other guys cheating? Nope. I just didn't know how to fish.