I'm sorry this thread got derailed. (And thanks for the kinds words from the people who posted them.)
Getting back on topic. I never answered my own question. (It was "what's the worst SEO advice you've ever received.")
The worst SEO advice I ever got was to get as many links as I could from wherever I could get them. I wound up with a site that had almost 20 pages of link exchanges. Ranked great in Yahoo for a while, but it never got more than maybe 30 visitors a day, and Google penalized the entire domain. Site doesn't rank for anything significant anywhere now.
That advice was bad then, but it worked temporarily in 2003. I'm not sure it would work at all now, but I wouldn't waste my time trying it now either.
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