SEO Oxymoron: Paying for Links Takes Organic out of SEO
July 24, 2010
Today I have decided to rant about something that has been bugging me for quite sometime — SEO companies/consultants that have drifted to the dark side.
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Today I have decided to rant about something that has been bugging me for quite sometime — SEO companies/consultants that have drifted to the dark side.
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This is a blog post we had to drop because companies are being gamed by space cadets in the social media marketing world that just