links for 2008-03-30

"What is the fine line between acceptable link building, paid linking, good SEO and black hat Google bombs? How does Google's taste, editorial discretion, or standardized algorithmic hooks affect their perception as to whether a pattern is 'natural'?"

"So obvious, simple and brilliant - I wish I thought of it". How to use 301 re-directs, false buttons, and sneaky JavaScript to turn one Digg front page into a stream of Digg success. Very smart.

"A couple of categories lack one clear authority - instead containing multiple authorities. For example, among News and Media websites, .23% of visits from Wikipedia went to The New York Times, .20% to CNN.com and .18% to BBC News".

"Yahoo! announced that it had begun using microformats on its European shopping search engine Kelkoo. Specifically, Yahoo! Europe pushed out the biggest deployment yet of the draft hListing format. The number of hListing's Yahoo! put out was 26,456,448".

"Ultimately it’s wrong to show competing PPC on search results on a brand name – if that would be switched off – then we see less of a battle by brands on accepting it".