A couple weeks ago, Google’s Matt Cutts was on This Week in Google (TWiG) and on episode 227 Matt had some interesting things to say. He said that Google specifically tries to break the spirits of black hat SEOs.

At about an hour and 25 minutes into the video, Matt said:

Here is the video, scroll to just before 1:25 on this video:

So in short, Google actually doesn’t just look to prevent money to go to spammers, they look to break their spirits.

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