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Checkout your followers on Twitter, I was checking out Kevin Rose on Twitter http://twitter.com/kevinrose/following

and I noticed that we have some new Ajax features,

you can easily switch the list to an expanded view which includes the persons last tweet, real name and location

If you are following the same people you can send a direct message or unfollow .. so I could send a message to Matt Cutts since I follow him as well as Kevin Rose.

Dave

I guess most SEO’s will have been happily preparing for this day to come and if you haven’t don’t worry too much I’m sure you’ll figure it out. For the past few months we have seen I guess what can only be called a non-geo vince data ( btw vince or brand update take your pick) appearing in the UK Serps. At least they gave us a heads up this time.

So how will it make our jobs easier? In the past if you wanted to rank it was necessary to land grab has many links has possible and have good OPIC score. Well Google seems to be now allowing “authority websites” to rank top for high value keyterms that aren’t in their backlink profiles or at least not a major %. Any ways I was chatting to Greg Boser a few months back and we are in agreement that now is the time to shine in the SEO world as crappy link builders and low quality links will fall by the wayside and drag a few sites down I’m sure.

So the million dollar questions .. how do you

a) Become Brand

b) Become Authority

c) tell Google that you are an authority brand

well tbh I have given enough clues recently on external interviews and on webmaster radio.. so you work it out ;)  haha

DaveN

You may have noticed we’ve recently changed the layout of comments on the Blog - some of you may now be lucky enough to have a clean, followed link from our blog to your site.

If your URL is Green - congratulations you’ve earned a link from us by taking part in our community, otherwise your URL will be a completely unlinked in a grey colour.

We have written a custom Wordpress Plugin so we can reward those who participate on the site more. In order to obtain a link you will need to have made a minimum of 10 comments (subject to change). Once you’ve reached this threshold your site will also be given an Editorial Review if your site is deemed link worthy, you will get links on all earlier posts. Our decision on whether your site is link worthy is final.

So happy commenting

Cheers,
Anthony - Follow me on Twitter!

please watch this video first :

now read this post :

Replacing H1 tags with Images .. ok

now the way that Matt laughed about CSS replacement made me feel uneasy, so I pinged  Joost de Valk on instant messenger and he pointed out this google webmastercentral post which cleary shows Google replacing it’s logo with text. they even say

“Google search result with CSS disabled (”Google” sprited image lost, descriptive “Google” link remains)”

so who is right Matt Cutts or webmaster blog, because at the moment I feel very conflicting advice.

Dave