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Is outing & writing polarizing drivel hate baiting or a service to the community?

It is all a matter of perspective, isn't it?

Some people would like to claim that it is one thing when they do it & something else when somebody else does it.

Local citations are a critical part of a local SEO campaign. In looking at David Mihm's Local Search Ranking Factors you can see that a majority of the top 10 factors focus on business information structure and links.

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A bunch more here, with cut & paste code near your favorites.

I am already getting fake webmaster tool notification messages using the above subject line & the following message:

Hello dear managers of http://www.

Just about any independent SEO worth their weight who publishes a number of websites has at least once hit a snag & been filtered or penalized.

Before I get any drops of jupiter hate on the following...I was typing in training.seobook.com & somehow accidentally hit enter after typing train & when the URL completion didn't work I got the following SERP.

Google recently launched their webspam Penguin update. While they claim it only impacted about 3.

Sergey Brin recently said:

You have to play by their rules, which are really restrictive.

For the following study, we asked "Does this search result have ads on it? " to 1,000 searchers, per search results.

People tend to trust friends & family and the mainstream media far more than they trust websites & search engines.

Most people use the search engine which they believe has the best relevancy, whatever their computer came with, or what a friend recommended.

Most people only use 1 or 2 search engines in any given month.

People are more likely to search again with a new keyword than they are to click onto the second page of search results.

So what are we calling it today? Link building, link prospecting, content marketing, linkbait, socialbait, PR ? Whatever it is and whatever sub-definitions exist for the process of finding quality, related websites to link back to yours is difficult and time-consuming work.

More people have heard of paid search / AdWords than have SEO / link building.

In the below poll we didn't make any distinction between AdWords & organic SEO investments.

Google recently launched a consumer insights survey product, which quizes users for access to premium content.

Surprisingly, nearly 1 in 11 people like ad retargeting.

As publishers we tend to be quite concerned with the over-promotion of Google+ because it carves up the search landscape, is potentially another hoop that we have to jump through, and in some cases, the Google+ hosted version of a page will outrank the legitimate original source - which screws up the economics of online publishing.

Nearly 3 in 4 people think that search engines should not be able to preferentially promote their own services.