http://HubShout.com HubShout.com is a Internet marketing firm with Fortune 100 experience in white hat SEO, SEM and PPC services.http://HubShout.com/?Google-remembers-to-do-no-evil&AID=182 I often say that Google's corporate motto "do no evil" is more a public relations stunt than anything. After all, Google is a for profit, publicly traded, corporation with a legal obligation to make as much money for it's share holders as possible without breaking the law. While the idea of "do no evil" is a great one, there are many many areas of gray that live within that statement. We struggle with the gray areas every day in the SEO fields. As our SEO resellers approach us with ideas about how to get ahead in the rankings we are constantly defining our own version of "do no evil" here at HubShout http://HubShout.com/?Google-as-a-power-company&AID=181 If you are like us, you follow the SEO industry fairly closely. This, of course, means following Google. 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Rand had a great summary of a panel presented by Matt Cutts where they did some live analysis on a few websites to break down the reasons for good or bad rankings. The issues were the usual ones. Get good links. Writer good content