Top 2 these are our Industry

http://searchengineland.com/
http://www.seroundtable.com/

People I Respect and Read

http://www.seomoz.org/blog ( well BeckBeck… Only Joking Rand )
http://www.joostdevalk.nl/
http://www.wolf-howl.com/
http://www.quicksprout.com/
http://www.sugarrae.com/
http://www.shoemoney.com/
http://www.seobook.com/
http://www.vanessafoxnude.com/

ok I read in many many other places, but this is my Top10 at the Moment

DaveN

I don’t know why maybe it’s the way she rants, god knows I have been at the end of more than one of those in my time. But we don’t have to agree with all the people out there all the the time but we should always respect each other. This is one of the best Guides on How to Launch a Small Local Business that’s on the net and that’s like a year old or something now. Also the interview Rae did with the link development guys in our industry another great read. Anyway I was just going though my Bloglines feed and decided that http://www.sugarrae.com/ was one of the Top10 feeds that I subscribe too. So what Feed do you keep going back to time and time again.

DaveN

Well the answer is a hand ban I guess, but what if you have bigger balls than the guy that’s going to press the ban button, in Google Spam Team that’s Matt and in Fairness I would not like to test him, ( He ban’s and puts my sites under penalty just for the record, buying not selling links that is )..

So lets look at some history Sept 2005 on Matt’s blog http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/text-links-and-pagerank/ Matt talked about dailycal.org and how they broke Googles rules, but did the DailyCal do anything to fix the issue. Here is was Matt said at the time

When the Berkeley college newspaper has six online gambling links (three casinos, two for poker, and one bingo) on its front page, it’s harder for search engines to know which links can be trusted

- never a truer word spoken, so what’s happens next does the DailyCal take a beating in the serps : 2 years later they are still #1 for Student Newspaper California but Matt did say :

A natural question is: what is Google’s current approach to link buying? Of course our link-weighting algorithms are the first line of defense, but it’s difficult to catch every problem case in adversarial information retrieval, so we also look for problems and leaks in different semi-automatic ways. Reputable sites that sell links won’t have their search engine rankings or PageRank penalized–a search for [daily cal] would still return dailycal.org. However, link-selling sites can lose their ability to give reputation (e.g. PageRank and anchortext).

Now I guess that’s what happened the DailyCal gets to keep it’s rankings and Pagerank it just dosen’t pass any juice to your site, So is the DailyCal committing Link Fraud and is Google unwittingly helping them by showing that they still have Pagerank ?

I mean they even link to EBay, NASA, Dell and the Wikipedia in the Site Sponsors, I guess that so the sales people can say “hey, didn’t hurt Dell did it”, So should google Ban the Dailycal or remove the Toolbar Pagerank at least ?

DaveN

The bane of my life as been the 302, 301 issues between Webmasters and Search Engines, Today I was checking out the Uk rankings for Divan Bed and Divan Beds,

Google UK : Divan Bed do you see the

http://track.webgains.com/click.html?wgcampaignid=1761&wgprogramid=485

Here is the header information :


HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:43:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.55 (Unix) mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.1 mod_ssl/2.0.55 OpenSSL/0.9.7a P3P: policyref="http://www.webgains.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP=\"NON DSP COR NID ADM DEV CURi OUR NOR COM NAV"
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:43:49 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache

Location: http://www.bedstar.co.uk?utm_campaign=Affiliates&utm_medium=datafeed&utm_source=webgains.com&adnetwork=webgains&siteid=1761
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

DaveN

This week Microsoft are giving us something for nothing… Well,  it’s offering software applications through the internet. Google do this already of course but it seems Microsoft now want to get in on the act in an effort to connect windows “more seamlessly” to internet services.

Could we now be seeing the end of packaged software ?

In true Microsoft style they do not fear taking on the likes of Google and not only when it comes to the search engine side of the business. In simple terms Microsoft want to be the leader when it comes to digital information - on pc, on mobile or on the net.