After many edits, re-edits, changes, un-changing the changes, well… you get the idea… I am happy to present the 2009 edition of SEO Fast Start - grab it from the download page!

Minor changes in the Keyword Strategy chapter. Significant updates in the Site Structure chapter.

I will be doing a free webinar this Wednesday evening to discuss the changes - get on the SEO Fast Start newsletter/mailing list to get an invite.

Thanks for reading!

Dan

"When you have ruled out the possible, whatever remains, however horrifying, will be more entertaining."

Matt Cutts made some comments about PageRank sculpting in general, and Google's handling of the nofollow attribute on internal links, last week at SMX Advanced in Seattle. Here is my report on those events, and my conclusion about the shocking truth behind the "smoke and mirrors."

Please watch this video:

Here's a link Leslie Rohde's less entertaining but more informative review of the matter. I apologize to everyone. I think the "Scenario #3" Leslie describes is actually quite plausible.

It's also quite possible that there's something to the "null hypothesis" description from Barry Welford.

P.S. If anyone doesn't get the joke, it's probably my fault.

P.P.S. I should probably be pimping my new link building course that starts next week.

UPDATE:

Update from Matt - doesn't add total clarity at first: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/ But the comments he added seem to indicate that Leslie's scenario (it doesn't evaporate, it goes off to the rest of the index) nailed it.

Hello, dear readers… since the cat is out of the bag, I may as well post about this. If you recall, a few weeks back I asked for some input on my new link building course (thanks), and I haven't followed up with you since.

I wasn't trying to hold out on you, but I wanted to wait until I got back from SMX Advanced in Seattle. I was there all last week to kiss hands, shake babies, and give a little talk about search engine marketing. Great event, by the way.

Anyway, while I was gone, the folks at StomperNet sent out a link to my little "teaser video" for the new course. They had an opening in their schedule, they wanted to mail out the link, and I said okay.

So, I am sorry if you didn't hear it from me first, but yes - I am doing a link building training program, and it's called Link Liberation.

I know you're probably pretty busy, so here are the bullet points:

• Go watch the teaser video first at:
  http://www.linkliberation.com/freeblueprint/insider.html
• The video is about some new link building strategies & tactics that I've been using with a handful of my students.
• If you want more info, you can click the link on that page for the "blueprint" video and companion report, OR you can join the Link Liberation mailing list. You can also join after checking out the bonus video & companion PDF report.

Now, if you are interested in joining this training program, or just hearing more about it, then I strongly encourage you to get on the mailing list - because there's some information I will only send if you "raise your hand," so to speak, and ask for it.

If you are certain that you want to join this training program, then definitely - get on the Link Liberation mailing list, so you can get the notification to sign up early. Space is going to be tight, and I don't want you, as a long time reader, to miss out.

Joining the Link Liberation list will NOT get you bombarded with double the emails - but if you don't get on that list, then I am going to assume you aren't especially interested in learning about link building from me right now.

I won't take it personally, not everyone needs this information.

Thanks for your kind attention.

Dan Thies
a.k.a. "The Link Liberator" (just trying it on…)

P.S. Yes, I am going to charge for this - but as you will see in the report, you can get a "sample" before we close the doors. (The price will be the same as the 2006 Link Building Clinic - just $795 - with a better format and more "stuff")