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I doubt it would be welcome, see http://jacobian.org/writing/seo-scumbags/

"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

That's not SEO. That's spam. SEO is about optimizing portions of your website for people using a search engine. Lumping all SEO together is akin to lumping all hackers together as criminals. I equate the techniques to those used in journalism. You want to front load the article with the most important information. The least important information should be at the end.

...or lumping hackers and crackers together as "all hackers."

Congratulations! I knew someone was going to call me out on that when I wrote it. Much easier to make pointless observations than to actually contribute, after all.

The difference there is "I want a link back from your site to my site." That's the point at which the offer loses all possible shreds of credibility.

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