network marketing

a while ago gthing noticed that utah's latest pyramid scheme MLM opportunity, goyin, had an unintentionally comical—and not very search engine friendly—website.

well, it looks like they've outdone themselves. their website now sports no real text at all—not even in meta tags. and they top it all off with a really annoying flash based splash page.

somehow, in just over a thousand characters, they managed to earn zero SEO points, work in an Internet Explorer css hack, fail XHTML validation, make their site completely inaccessible to anyone with a screen reader, and annoy the crap out of me. great job, guys.

the complete landing page source code after the jump.

The other day I saw three "Network Marketing" Hummers in less than an hour. It made me think, what exactly is the price of ethics? We'd all like to think that everyone will do what is right, no matter the incentives to the contrary. But nearly everyone has a price. So what incentive does it take to make a man dishonest in his dealings with his fellow men?