Black Hat SEO comes to Puna and Punaweb

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When I exchanged emails with Donna Herbst, who owns the website, about the emdedding of Punaweb on her page, she told me that she had no idea how that got on her page, and I took her at her word. I figured some webmaster had gotten overexcited and embedded Punaweb without running it by the owner of the site. But after looking at her website I see she has a Bio page here: http://www.bigislandforsale.com/about-us.html where she mentions what she calls "the puna forum" multiple times as the place to get all your real estate questions answered. She also says "From the beginning of my Real Estate career in 1990, I had to choose what type of a Realtor I'd be. A Realtor that gives more and more, or takes more and more. I've been giving for over 22 years and am still giving." but it looks to me like all taking in this case. Taking from Rob, and taking from all of us who are contributors to Punaweb.

I have to admit I just don't like the idea of Punaweb, and by extension all of us who are active members, being pimped out to sell real estate for someone who would rather that we answer all her potential customers questions, instead of doing it herself. Honesty and integrity are really important characteristics in a business person, especially in a real estate broker who is integral to the process of many people's most expensive financial transaction. Honesty means owning your mistakes, not pretending you don't know anything about them.

Carol