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That is exactly the whole point. You are not relying on SEO for YOUR BUSINESS.

For a real estate company to ignore SEO or use "hope and pray" link acquisition tactics, is just not at all smart. Their competition isn't doing that.

The problem with those sources is they are mostly only good for direct traffic. The links, even from somewhere like Huffington Post, are not all that strong. The page your links is on gets buried pretty quickly deep in their site. The only time it is going to be a strong link is if that article from Huffington Post happens to get shared and discussed a lot on other sites which link to the page.

It is not false at all. I guess you just don't know where to look for them.

And just to be clear, you don't only need links from gigantic authority sites like The New York Post to rank a webpage. There are plenty of smaller sites that are also seen as strong sites in the eyes of Google.

Of course we do. They have been judging links for almost 20 years. We have a long track record we can look at.

The problem with your theory is nobody is looking at search results and checking out their link profile before clicking on results. Sure having one of those "as seen in The Huffington Post" badges on the website itself might look impressive to a layman who doesn't know anyone can be featured in The Huffington Post for a few bucks.

Again though, none of that matters if the competition is outranking their site and nobody finds it in the first place.

For a local business though, I wouldn't waste time with that stuff as much as I would focus on getting featured in local publications. Our county newspaper gives out "Best of" awards in just about every line of business each year and it is voted on by the readers. I would push for that kind of local credibility more than anything.

That's the thing. The algorithm doesn't drastically shift. Google has always told us what they like. The only thing that has really changed about Google over the years is their ability to enforce that.

For years, Google said they did not approve of spammy backlinks. People didn't listen and their only real way to enforce it was through manual penalties. It's a big internet, so that wasn't all that effective. Then Penguin came along. People that were not listening got hit, but most of us, never saw a ranking drop. In fact, we only saw ranking improvements as many of the spammy sites were dropped.

I understand your concerns, but just because you don't know how to do something or cannot understand how it can be done, doesn't mean it cannot be done.

I'm glad what you are doing is working for you, but for a real brick and mortar type business, just content marketing alone is not going to get them ranked ahead of their competition and direct traffic from places like The Huffington Post is not going to do a local business one bit of good.