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Does Google See SEOs as Criminals?

The Nofollow PageRank sculpting topic was not the only heated debate at last week’s SMX Advanced conference. We have some SEOs claiming Google sees all SEOs as criminals before being innocent.

Michael Gray’s How Google Profiles SEO’s and Lisa Barone’s Google Openly Profiles SEOs As Criminals are both well written pieces arguing that Google doesn’t treat SEOs equally to all personalities on the internet. Let me quote one section to sum it up, but honestly, you should read both pieces in their entirety.

On the other hand, Susan Esparza takes the opposite view in her piece named I Don’t Like Conflict (But Google Doesn’t Think SEOs are Criminals). Susan explains that SEO are rightly held to a higher standard, because SEOs are search professionals.

I totally see both sides of the argument. I thought I conduct an anonymous poll asking our readers if they think Google see SEOs as criminals or not. Here is the poll, please have your friends take the poll:

Does Google See SEOs as Criminals?(polls)

Forum discussion at Sphinn (Lisa), Sphinn (Michael) and Sphinn (Susan).

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