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Guys and Gals, I have to go on a bit of a rant here.  I know SEO is not easy.  I know it's hard work.  I know you need to get an SEO to do a great job for you so that you can succeed in todays online environment. I have been learning about SEO for about 4 years now and have gotten semi-knowledgeable on the subject. It seems like when I get links, they aren't good enough for google.  I may do a guest post, etc.   I have really good content that ranks well for long tail keywords that people do search for, BUT  I can't seem to rank for the keywords that I want which is not that hard to do. I feel my biggest problem is content and link bait.  I am in real estate.  Yes I can write how to articles and unique pages on real estate topics but even when I do, it doesn't pull in links.  HOW DO I GET IT IN FRONT OF PEOPLE THAT WILL LINK TO ME??? If I am trying to rank for "oxford real estate" do I need to simply keep writing articles that are pretty similar in topic to this phrase? What am I missing?

I have a site that says that I have 2,500 warnings.  It is a real estate website and of course we use feeds.  it says I have a lot of duplicate content.  One thing is a page called "Request an appointment" and that is a url for each listing.  Since there are 800 listings on my site.  How could I solve this problem so that this doesn't show up as duplicate content since I use the same "Request an Appointment" verbeage on each of those?  I guess my developer who used php to do it, created a dedicated url to each.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How hard is it to get people to take off links that point to your site that are on theirs?  I have about 4 sites that I would like my link OFF of their blogroll because I think I was hit by the penguin update because of that.  Do you know if there is anything you can do if they DON'T take it off?