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The SEO industry may have one of the most negative reputations of any marketing –related field. Oftentimes the only reason SEO is being talked about in major news outlets is if a major company has been busted for practicing black hat SEO—like the J.C. Penney link building scam that made national headlines and resulted in the retailer’s free-fall in Google’s search results. Their black hat tactics (even if the company denies they were aware of the links) threw SEO under the light of public scrutiny, with many smaller businesses grabbing their torches and pitchforks, determined to punish the SEO scammers who had conned them.