Are you obligated to your client or to your personal history

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can buy from the auction and all the money they spend (not just a portion of it) goes directly to charity. Earlier this week Rand questioned Should SEOs Spam report competitors? Thinking about it makes me realize that I could write a whole volume about search marketing ethics.


Is the statement, "Reporting spam may hurt your fellow S united arab emirates mobile phone numbers database EOs (gray or black hat though their tactics may be) and is thus unethical," correct? If someone breaks the rules, in this case the search engine terms of service, then are they acting unethically? Can reporting unethical behavior itself be unethical? Or, is it like akin to not reporting your neighbor to the police because she is stealing cars? Can you divide right and wrong conditionally? Let's say we accept that you as an SEO should not report another optimizer for using a technique you have used in the past.


What if you are working on behalf of a client that never used the method or benefited from it? Are you obligated to your client or to your personal history? What about honor among search marketers? Is a code of omertà between SEO consultants a form of collusion? Is the principal of non-reporting itself unethical? You can argue for the flip-side too. Search engines are not legal authorities. Terms of service are not laws. Terms of service are written to benefit search engines, not users and definitely search marketers.