so Matt Mullenweg on his blog Photomat wrote about Google hitting out at people selling links on their Blogs, in the comments he added :

Andy, I don’t know who was “hit” or not, but there were no changes on photomatt.net or wordpress.com and wordpress.org is still PR9

Hmmm Heads up Matt in this game we wait to see what happens, I’m seeing your at A PageRank 8 now,

But this is the backlash of all the WP blogs getting PR taken away from them or did Matt sell a link or 2 :) ?? what do you think

DaveN

I was hoping to get over to Stockholm for SMX, (btw you can get 10% off if you visit this site and tell him “Dave sent yer” ;))

Ok so what new? The Dragons Den show seems to have had an effect on gaming sites wanting to get a face lift from Bronco, so that team is pretty busy,

Next week I fly to Redmond and will update you when I get back.. also finished Halo3 again ! this time I will update my gamertag

the person to beat I guess is Jenstar.

Then the week after, it’s SMX London, where I’m hoping to meet up with Gaming Alerts again and possibly the Dragon, Theo.

Dave

So you have decided to facilitate content creation?

But which content management system to use? The options available from open source and free software is vast. With today’s websites moving over to CMS so that client’s can control the publishing and flow of their information resources and implement accessibility at the same time, which CMS system should we in the SEO community promote?

The system should offer adequate site structure and unique titles with the clear URL generation and valid HTML, how about ALT text for images too?

Are the commercial CMS products out there better than the freebies?

Dan Horton SEO

Gaming the search engines. The transference of social community power to your website can be more effective than gathering large numbers of back links from relevant authority sites.

How so ?
Like a high velocity directional electron beam targeted at your site a social networking laser beam can then trigger a catalytic reaction of traffic from other sources. News travels fast within the social communities like a particle accelerator with great amounts of kinetic energy.

Imagine the following all bundled up: Stumbleupon, Digg, Myspace and Facebook in your laser gun and it’s ultimate ability to power you up the Serps.

More and more focus will be on the social networks in months to come. I see Stumbleupon has opened itself up and Myspace is actively encouraging development with its open source.

All the links on my blog are now straight forward links, Please don’t make me ban you :)

DaveN