As you may already know, SEO Days is the new conference headed by David Naylor (AKA. DaveN) Greg Boser (AKA. WebGuerrilla and Jennifer Slegg (AKA. Jenstar).  The conference is being held in London at the Hilton Hotel.  They have guest speakers from a number of great places too.

It’s going to be a great event, and if you don’t have a ticket, get one now.

PS. I’m going too see you there

OMG! Google have a new function in Google Webmaster Tools which show you how many links you have pointing to your site,it was announced eariler over at the Google blog.  This is pretty big news, Google sharing what they know about your links, this will help show what Google thinks as a links and what it believes isn’t a link, at the moment the linking information is prett small as it’s a brand new feature and no data like this was stored (openly) at Google so it has some work to do before it’s effective.

As Matt Cutts has tried to hammer into our head, ‘Just because they appear does not mean the links hold value’ which is something most SEO’s should know from doing link:www.domain.com commands in search engines that show all (such as All The Web)

But from Matt’s line, does that mean he confirms that links currently displaying in the link:www.domain.com search in Google does show links that do hold weight? I think he does

Today Google declared that they have finally sorted out the Googlebomb, which means Tony Blair is no longer a liar and George Bush is no longer a miserable failure…according to Google.

Now well done to Google for sorting this out with there hand crafted algo update but I feel this isn’t over just yet, it could go one way or another:

One way is that they haven’t eliminated all Googlebombing due to some being harder to distingquish at the moment.

Second way is that this algo could handycap people who have a lot of links with the same achor text trying to promote there site.

Lets hope they got it spot on

Someone, who calls himself fuckingpirate has been hacking all the SEO gurus blogs. He made a complete list of sites he was going to hack on a wordpress blog he had made, 3 of which he got which was Wolf Howl, BoogyBonBon and Stuntdubl VIA a wordpress exploit and then attacking them with an automated script. Fuckingpirate has made it obvious where he is and has even offered people to meet up with him. Seems like he’s trying to liven up the SEO world but going the wrong way around it.

Anyway Wordpress have released a new version of Wordpress to protect against this exploit.

Today I’ve heard quite a few people and have noticed myself that PR has dropped for the majority of websites. In case you don’t know, Google has about 40+ data centre’s just for PR really and you don’t receive an average of all the DC’s no, you get the results of one of them and pretty much everyone is different.

Usually you can expect to see (for example) PR 5 on the majority of the DC’s and PR4 on others or even 0. So whenever you use the Google toolbar, your assigned a DC for the session, you sometimes can have this DC all week, sometimes every time your browser refreshes, Google like to keep you on your toes. The main way to check what PR DC your hitting (this has worked every time for me, if you know a better way, tell me! ;)) is to do a search with the Google toolbar (anything, as long as it’s a search and not a operator command) and mouse over the cached link by a search result, check the location of the link by looking at the bottom left of your browser for an IP and hey presto you have the IP. Then you can compare it to PR checker tools. and as a final note PR is seriously out of date, the toolbar only gets updated once a quarter and even that information is 3 months old and I find PR pretty pointless the way Google displays it, more of a marketing tool to make you install the toolbar than helpful.
Anyway lesson over and back on topic

As you can see on DaveN’s Blog, you can see that Google’s PR has gone seriously screwy and the majority of the results are 0 (this blog has PR 0 as it’s new so no point checking mine :p). It is about due a PR update but I’m disappointed with the results so far (where’s my PR 10! :))

Big Mouth Media, probably the biggest SEO firm in Britain was acquired by Global media over the weekend for an amazing €60 million (about £35-40 million or $65 million roughly depending where your from)!  This move makes Global Media one of the biggest SEM companies in the world.

Maybe they’d like to buy my ‘business’ for a similar fee…?

David Naylor hasn’t been getting alot of love recently from MSN handling redirects screwerly (is that a word!?). He’s doing a test on Matt Cutts (notice it’s the .co.uk!) and asking people to link to the domain (damn curiosity). I have an idea what Daven is planning but am damn interested to find out.

Stay tuned folks