Mymotech

You know you have arrived when you get a reciprocal linking request. This arrived in my inbox today:

Hello,
We visited your site [name] and are interested to swap links
with your site.
We would add your link at the home page of
[URL removed] which will actually
help to increase the search engine rank of your site and give you [...]

Matt Cutts has boldly gone and painted with a broad brush. In a blog post he insinuates a connection between using Google-unapproved SEO techniques and criminal behavior.

For a while now, I’ve had a slight hunch that clients that embrace blackhat SEO on their site are willing to cut corners in other areas of business as [...]