I have an unusual request: been blogging for years but this is my first personal post.

The best person I know runs a business called etoner.com. It’s a customer service centric mail-order shop, that sells printer toner, copier toner and other office supplies.

I can put my good name 100% behind him and his company because he shares that name with me: he’s my older brother.

The problem: Recently his competitors began using various search engine manipulation techniques: fake pages, link farms, link doorways, all sorts of things to deceive search engines. Its unfair and it has nothing to with the quality of the service they provide or products they sell.

The favor: If you need toner or other office supplies, give etoner.com and their prices a shot. They sell all the popular models like HP toner, Ricoh SP C410DN, Ricoh CL7200, HP P4005 and Okidata C5100, take special orders, and my brother, the owner, the main man, takes pride in dealing with customers directly. 1-800-365-5566, or go www.etoner.com.

And of course if you feel so motivated, throw a link up on your site to etoner.com out of respect for one of the good guys, a small business owner focusing on customers.