martinibuster - 12:46 am on Aug 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

>>>Now what the heck does THAT have to do with what you wrote?

It's a response to your statement that there is no tension between Google and Webmasters. Do I have to spell everything out?

You stuck two unrelated things in the same sentence...

Steve, you answered your question and contradicted yourself doing it, there is tension between Google and webmasters.

That doesn't mean there is a conflict between search engineers and people with websites that make money.

Dude, it's in the Google TOS. You can't use Google to make money. Beyond that, there are many grades of sites that make money, and many ways of doing that. Websites that make money, as you put it, is a very general term that encompasses what some call spam. What is spam can be interpreted in many different ways, including the affiliate link to content ratio, among other things.

An H1 is no signal of manipulation.

Steve, are you having a private discussion with yourself? Nobody is arguing that point, so I don't know why you keep bringing it up.