Does Google consider SEO to be spam?

Matt Cutts answers the question: "Does Google consider SEO to be spam?"

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[Derek Mansfield]

We dominate our market sector by doing exactly what this video describes. By dominate I mean we have the first 15 positions on the highest volume key phrase, and the first 10 positions on the second highest. We have position 1 to 6 on many more key phrases.

We achieved this with white hat SEO - great site architecture, regularly updated unique content and high level relevant incoming links from well written articles that we post on good sites around the net. And no expensive PPC.

[Haris Kriještorac]

SEO in the digital marketplace is like market research in the non-digital marketplace. If you want to open a shop, you should research what neighborhood to be it in, what to call it, what you should stock there, what your expenses would be. It's pretty analogous to what people do with paid search and SEO. What keywords should I target, which ones are working well, which ones should I pay to rank for, what sites should I get links from?

[Taylor Watkins]

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[Noviana Kurniasari]

Anyone tried the MoboRank (do a google search)? I've heard several great things about it and my friend rank on page 1 of google by using it.

[amiruddin99]

You guys at google are a bunch of very bad people never take in consideration where us people who are investing our hard earned money to genuinely promote our business via seo you penalise the good ones and leave the sites that are doing blatant black hat seo, Contact me please!

[SEOCrossing]

Hello.... In theory, this should be a good tool to combat negative SEO if you’re actually experiencing it but interesting thing is that no guarantee that Google will actually ignore the links you tell it to. and the good information about the seo is really good

[Aarbaoui Tarik]

you blocked two blogs of mine for this reason. dude

[antalyahomes]

Ohhh, I try too much to find my real estate website by google. I know google tries to find me, too. Shall SEO end? I beleive, NO.

[Mike Mo]

Content is king!

[Jeriff Cheng]

SEO is not spam when he was born,but it caused many spams when he grows up - it's not SEO's fault, it is our human's

[Main Uddin]

Google launched the Link Disavow tool, which lets webmasters tell Google to ignore certain links or links from certain domains. In theory, this should be a good tool to combat negative SEO if you’re actually experiencing it but interesting thing is that no guarantee that Google will actually ignore the links you tell it to.