I was going to say that having good manners in business is common sense. However, these days common sense is very uncommon. So in this article I’m going to highlight the benefits of showing a little courtesy when conducting business online. Aside from being good business, being polite is just the right thing to do. Being friendly to someone can make their day, just as being nasty to someone can ruin their day.

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Having been a webmaster for a while now, I’ve started, been through and come out the other side of the proverbial Google Pagerank tunnel. Having been in this world, I now understand how little Google Page Rank (PR) matters. If PR does matter, then you will always be limited in what you can achieve. If you are selling links to gain PR, then Google will eventually catch up with you and kill the pagerank of your site. That means your source of income dies off with your site’s loss of green magic.

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