I’ve always liked Quadszilla over at SEO Black Hat, and some of his most recent posts are really good. This particular post is a great method for building a new habit. I use the exact same technique for keeping track of my cardio workouts. I’m really consistent with lifting, but cardio is harder to stick with. Having a calendar in your face with big red X’s is hard to argue with. I’m not a member of the private SEO forum but I have heard really good things if you’re into the forum thing.

One guy who doesn’t get enough credit is Joost de Valk. He has written a bunch of cool tools, and a load of useful Wordpress plugins. The one that takes the cake though is his RSS Footer insertion plugin. Let the scrapers steal your RSS content, you’re just going to get a nice influx of backlinks with Joost’s plugin. If you ever need a custom wordpress plugin, I’d say fire an email at Joost. As long as you’re here too, go vote for him.

I wanted to check some little green pixels today and my Google toolbar is somehow broken. I was dismayed to find the first few PR checkers I tried were broken. Doing a little more testing, it seems like half the PR checkers out there are broken. The seomoz page strength tool has an accurate PR, but the first Google result for pagerank checker (which I’m not going to link) is broken. Seems to be a pattern. Did Google just change some display-layer formatting or are they playing a little fucky-fucky with the green bits industry?

This the best and only quality post on SEOmoz ever. Thank you Rebecca for saying what was already on my mind.

A while ago some of my SEO/SEM friends started asking for diggs. They started out IM conversations with the usual small talk and catching up. Then came the “can you digg this for me?”. Finally I told all these people: Look, I don’t care if you want me to use me to digg something. I can take it. I won’t even feel cheap afterwards. Just paste the digg URL to me, I’ll click on it and if it isn’t ridiculously lame I’ll digg it. Thats 2 clicks. If I have to make 5 minutes of small talk with you, its 5 minutes and an interruption in my work-flow (which is more critical than the 5 minutes, I’m not that bloody important).

Same goes for asking for favors or questions. Don’t hit me with the “are you there?” more often than not I am. But if I’m not, at least when I get back I can have your question on my screen and I can fire back an answer. If you just ask if I’m there, you probably won’t get an answer.

Now on to this Tuesdays and Thursdays are social days malarkey. Are you fucking kidding me? Are we that lonely in our home offices that we need virtual pep days?

Lastly, the new digg mutual-friend feature is so god damn annoying. Instead of dropping the email’s from digg with a procmail rule I am just de-friending all the people who I am mutual friends with. Sorry, but there is ABSOLUTELY no value to me in those emails.

Thanks Rebecca, for an awesome post as usual.

P.S. Don’t ask me for sphinns, I don’t even have an account.

At SES SJ Dave Naylor and I had a chat about how broken Google’s “dupe-content/authoritative” filtering is. Dave posted on it back then. Matt and a few other Googlers were present and noted that its a problem. Here’s another great example of it:

Come on Google. This content is <24 hours old. Great freshness, but what the hell are you doing ranking a scraper and dropping the original content author as supp?

Look at this site, that doesn't even rank: Midwest Triple X