SEO articles abound on social media linking strategies. SEO blog posts are legion on the topic of link and widget bait. SEO forums buzz endlessly about reciprocal versus one-way linking. There is no doubt that all of those various types of external, inbound links matter. But how often do we discuss internal linking strategies?

There are a number of fatal, hypocritical or naive flaws in almost every attack on paid posts by A list bloggers and it is time to show them their Achilles heel(s).

I benefit from being a top commenter on a number of blogs simply because I am consistently active on those sites, and I have gained the benefit without changing my commenting habits.

Some of my blogging friends are aware of the problems, but have opted to use such a plugin anyway – I fully respect that decision, but many make that decision "blindly" without being aware of the possible consequences.

A recent article posted on Slashdot looked at various website design points of the top 6 Presidential Candidates.

Have you been using the link data Google now provides through Webmaster Tools? Do you wish Google provided even more information? I know I do. Well Google hasn’t made any changes to the tool, but thanks to Joost de Valk you can now pull a little more data from all those links Google is reporting.

As in any community, there are the trend setters, the visionaries and the superstars. They’re the ones that are quoted, read and referenced most, the movers and shakers of their particular realm. Blogging is no different.

Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal has written a post on measuring the value of directory links.

I’d love to know where one can submit “fun” links for the non-English language web (I’ve just added translations to a site of mine).

If you have a new non-English web site, you can submit it to sites like Boing Boing, Digg, Fark, CollegeHumor, MetaFilter, and if they like it they link to it. But where do you submit something for… China? Japan? Russia? Italy? Spain? Brazil? India?

Reddit is one of the most difficult social sites to get your content popular on. It can drive thousands of visitors to websites and hundreds of links, but the question is how can you get to the top of the homepage so you can get the traffic and links?

We already know that good content and attractive post titles can really help get a story to the top of social sites. Another obviously important factor that helps a story get to the top is the amount of votes it gets. On most social sites, the friends feature can help a story get a large amount of votes in a short amount of time. If you are not too familiar with the friends feature that social sites have, it is the feature that allows one user to befriend other users.

At LIFT we talked about Internet addiction, that turned into an article on the BBC. I spoke up and said that my addiction got me lots of benefits. More friends. Invites overseas. And lots of interesting experiences including dinner with Douglas Engelbart (still one of the highlights of my tech tour).

Lists are good and bad. They

John Dowdell is keeping a list of links of people who say something interesting about the Adobe Engage event I’m at.

Good posts so far?

Tim O’Reilly on creating engaged users.

David Berlind of ZDNet on Microsoft vs. Adobe and Adobe’s timeline.

In the past I’ve written about the content versus links debate where SEOs seem to fall on one side or the other when assigning the majority of importance for search engine rankings. What’s missing from that conversation is the need for a distribution network.

Last week I did a post on Search Engine Watch about 11 guidelines for pursuing authoritative links. This post on SEW provides an overview about pursuing the highest value links from sites as part of a long campaign. And this is a great approach to pursuing links.

A recent post on Search Engine Watch informs about 11 Guidelines for Getting Authoritative Links. Authoritative links ensures value to web promotion strategy. It is obvious that search engine will give preference as well as value to out bound links from authoritative sites. 

While doing some research, an astute coworker of mine noticed that the Google Enterprise Solutions page has links to their partners’ websites who are part of their Enterprise program. What’s interesting about this is that the page has a Google PageRank of 7/10, and to get listed on that page you have to pay Google $10,000 per year to be part of their program.

The First Age of The Internet is fast coming to a close, and with that comes the removal of early opportunities and low-hanging fruit.

That means if you have a serious plan for a website, you need to push on getting it out now, and fast.

If you have a website without a business plan, you need to push on getting one drawn up now, and fast.

I’ve been at this conclusion for a while, but the issue of urgency is speeding up.

I can’t help but think this is a silly discussion, like an argument about whether or not Lois Lane could really have Superman’s baby, but I’m diving in anyway to wrap my head around it and, in the process, take you with me.

Link Building Blog expounds a good way of increasing ranking. It suggests that getting links from trusted sites like .edu and .gov sites will help in useful link building.

The first step is obviously to search for links
Although there an tons of educational and government sites, a lot don’t link out. The key to getting these links is to find sites that link to your competitors because they will probably be willing to link to you. You can do this by using Yahoo.

This is something I wanted to share with you "my reader".

As you know, .EDU links (from relevant websites) add a lot of value to your website. Well, did you know that there are a lot of college professors who blog under their college website sub directories? And yes, they are . .EDU

Target professors who blog. If you’re in the "science industry", just search for "college professor blog science" or something like that.

Here are a few links to check out.

Loren Baker is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it any longer. He’s nailed his 13 reasons why the NoFollow attribute sucks to the blogosphere wall and banned them from Search Engine Journal.