There's a lot in the SEO blogosphere worthy of reading today, and although I'm not usually one to post a roundup, it feels appropriate so, without further ado:
Aaron's going crazy, posting like a madman this morning/afternoon on topics from political blog link-baiting to bad landing pages for SEOmoz's advertisers to the value of attending conferences.
Threadwatch is posting about the possible impending death of the view bids tool at Overture - say it ain't so! They're also covering the invasion of Wikipedia content in the Google SERPs and speculating if this forebodes what's to come with the AOL deal.
Jim's ripping apart Google's webmaster guidelines (in style).
Donna's looking into the crystal ball for 2006 and her predictions are fantastic.
Rob Sullivan is at Search Engine Journal, looking into Google's application of quality guidelines and wondering if it will cross the border between paid and organic results.
Lots of good stuff for what should be such a slow week.
hey.. that MyBlogLog is pretty telling. That's why I am keeping mine secret!
Of all the sites on the web, Wikipedia is the one that I am worried about most long term as a competitor for my info sites. Some of their articles are really good in my field and they are a strong suction for backlinks.
Michael - I agree in many respects, but I also believe that with such great popularity and power will come responsibility and we'll see a shift towards more managed content and tighter reputation controls on editors and writers. We're still in the nascent beginnings of Wikipedia - let's give it a few years more to show what it can do.
BTW - This post is exactly why I love Mybloglog. Just check out the popularity of different subjects and which ones readers seem to find most "click-worthy" - fascinating...
Rand, this was a really useful post. I don't have time to hit all of the blogs and this gave me the best from everywhere in a single compact post - by someone who I know has a nose for the good stuff. :-)