Maybe I should have differentiated between link-farm type SEO and web marketing. The former is more likely to cause people to abuse the system because simply ge

Maybe I should have differentiated between link-farm type SEO and web marketing. The former is more likely to cause people to abuse the system because simply getting people to visit your website or click a link provides monetary compensation. If you drove traffic to your website I could make a hand-wavy free market argument that if your product wasn't good, it wouldn't sell and you wouldn't have money to pay someone to drive traffic to your website. I fully accept that its my own opinion.