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Absolutely.  I don't mind losing out to hard work but when I'm going up against cheaters I have no problem blowing the whistle.  Google was easy and has a Chrome extension as well.  Bing, I had to search for a link to email support and I had to provide my name/email which I think is annoying and probably deters people...but I did it anyway.

Sounds good.  I figured I shouldn't do the same but wanted to confirm.  I didn't realize how easy it was to report spam so that's done.  Thanks.

I've been scoping out some of my competition and I noticed the number 1 ranking site is doing a lot of "interesting" stuff.  I saw a bunch of 1px blank images that they must be using for the alt tag keywords.  I also noticed several links to internal pages with different keywords without anchor text so they don't actually appear on the page.  Is this considered black hat?  Should I be doing something similar?  It feels like the work I'm doing to try to rank #1 with a clean/professional looking site are wasted when the #1 sites are doing things like this.