> Questions that imply you're looking for better ways to spam also tend to fair poorly; can't imagine why.

I do not follow you.

> FWIW, legit SEO questions do have a home on SE: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/seo

I know that Webmasters SE is supposedly the right place to ask questions about crawling issues and Ajax, but in fact you will find more questions on SO (see links below) because this is mainly related to technical issues with JavaScript.

234 questions tagged http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/seo+ajax?sort=newe...

74 questions tagged http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/seo+aja...