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Stuntdbl, a member of Search Engine Watch forums, has started an interesting thread about what he believes are the top 20 SEO contradictions that people in the web promotion field debate about frequently.

Here's the list:

1. All links work vs. Contextual links work
2. Buy links for click through (or don't buy them) vs. Buy links for search rankings
3. There's nothing a competitor can do to hurt your site vs. Googlebowling
4. SEO is dead vs. Long live SEO
5. Directory links are important vs. Google hates directory links
6. All penalties are algorithmic vs. Lots of hand edits
7. Sandbox vs. There is no sandbox
8. Filters vs. Penalties
9. The blue pill vs. There is no spoon
10. Pagerank is dead vs. Buy links based on Pagerank (okay this one is just plain WRONG)
11. Content remix vs. Scraper sites
12. Blogs rank too well vs. SE's don’t like blogs
13. Real simple syndication vs. Real simple stealing
14. Lots of links vs. Quality links
15. Google knows all vs. Google is dumb
16. Lots of directories vs. Good directories
17. Automated vs. Manual
18. Linking in vs. Linking Out
19. Global vs. Local
20. Google is good vs. Google is evil

Here's a link to the thread - Top 20 SEO Contradictions