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What Obligation Does An SEO Blogger Have?
Social Media News Source: http://www.seo-scoop.com
Published: Sep 23, 2007 - 02:01 pm
Story Found By: AndyBeard 1708 Days ago
Category: Social Media
From the post: "There’s been lots of talk lately on the subject of SEO bloggers backing up statements with facts. I absolutely don’t want to discuss the specific events ore the people involved that prompted the discussion, and that’s my prerogative to do so. I do, however, see value in the broader discussion itself, so I’ll give my thoughts on the general questions involved in this heated debate. I’d love to hear your thoughts as well." 
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from qwerty 1708 Days ago #
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Great post. I don’t think there will ever be an accepted answer to all of the issues raised, but I normally consider anything I read on a blog to be opinion, hopefully based on at least anecdotal evidence. But I had an experience a few months ago that concerned me: I saw a series of articles and overviews of conference presentations making a number of statements of fact. There was no test data to back it up, but the same claims were being made by a number of people, some of whom are considered reliable authorities. The thing is, the information presented didn’t seem right to me, so I ran some very simple, non-scientific tests, and my data indicated that all of those articles were simply wrong. I wrote an article about it (with my data included), and I’ve commented in a number of places where the information I believe to be erronneous was posted, but it’s been ignored for the most part. If enough of the right people say something is true, it’s just accepted as true, it seems.

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from DazzlinDonna 1708 Days ago #
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I guess you weren’t LOUD enough.  LOL.  Sometimes we have to shout over the misconceptions.  :)

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from aimClear 1708 Days ago #
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Whenever one of us cites "facts" it’s very important to have backup. Aside from any heightened responsibility marketing "responsibility” we might have there can be legal exposure for not telling the truth, being careless, or misrepresenting facts. Absent credible backup for positions we stake out in our posts, it’s always best-practice to delineate fact from opinion.

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from cre8pc 1708 Days ago #
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heh. Donna and I must have nothing better to do on a pretty Sunday afternoon than to try and save the blog world, LOL I added a link to your blog post in the Cre8tiveFlow piece that points to the forums thread on all this.Thank you, all, for standing up and talking about this.  

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from DazzlinDonna 1708 Days ago #
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I’m watching football too!  I’m not a total loser!  LOL!  ;)

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from AndyBeard 1708 Days ago #
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Querty just ping me the URL and happy to submit it to Sphinn ;)

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from qwerty 1708 Days ago #
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Thanks, Andy, but it’s already been submitted (and ignored): http://sphinn.com/story/1312

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