- Local SEO is becoming more targeted by spammer – Google’s heavy focus on “citations” is the main reason because as getting links from other websites can be difficult, getting citations isn’t as difficult. For example, spammers can spam forums and blogs with “citations” and since there is no link involved, there is no nofollow tag or no spam detection hence it is easily absued.

-  Google Search Quality Declines because of Google+ – Competing with Facebook and Twitter, Google is favoring its own social media network, Google+, and showing it in the search results. Many search engine experts and usability experts believe this will decline Google’s search results. Although this will probably not effect Google’s search market share as its biggest competitor is way behind in the industry.

- SEO Business on The Rise – Just like how late 90s there was a .com boom, there seems to be a “.seo” boom now that many companies have websites, they want to get soem search engine traffic as it is the most targeted type of traffic. As the result SEO firms and SEO consultants are highly in demand these day.