Alright, this will hit home to some of my readers, but fuck it, I won’t stand for that shit. I work at a company that has as a main objective SEO, or in layman’s terms, optimizing search results for a specific site or URL. I respect what they do as a company and as individuals, it’s not my field and, even if I’ve judged it in the past, I made peace with it. While I do not approve some of the techniques which border blackhatness or ethical questionning, there’s a market, there’s a demand, and they provide the means to an end, which is perfectly fine. I’ve never done it for any of my sites, some of which had a million hits per month without SEO or advertising. I subscribe to the school of people who think that if you want good position in search engines, have a better product or a better content than the other guy — but that’s my personal take on it, and it’s in no way profitable for anyone. All that to say that I understand the concept, I don’t approve some of it, but I live with it and manage to respect people who do that for a living.

With that being said, one thing I won’t fucking tolerate is people who I call friends commenting on my blog using SEO techniques. Fuck you. That’s fucking insulting. This is my private blog, one that if you don’t have anything to say, I want you to shut the fuck up. Don’t pull that shit on me – I will ban your ass and not give one look back.

I’m not gonna make this a rant about SEO, the state of the web today, marketing or the company I work for. What had to be said has been said, and if you can’t respect it, get the fuck out right this second.

Thank you.

Edit: wanted to add that after talking it over with the person in question, I hold no grudge and feel no animosity towards him.