Or at least we all hope! Leeds United have entered the final stage of their fight to gain back the 15 points deducted at the start of the season, due to going into administration. The arbitration committee met over a week ago to decide the fate of the points and announced that a verdict would be made by the 1st May.

It was widely believed that the decision would be made public after the hearing, but initially officials said it could take up to four weeks for the announcement. This has now been changed due to the complications it could cause with the League One play-offs. It is not known if the verdict will be announced on the 1st May or before the deadline.

If Leeds get the 15 points back they could potentially win the league, if Leeds win their last game and Swansea fail to get all three points. With a 15 point gain Leeds will definitely ensure that Carlisle, Nottingham Forest and Doncaster would all lose out on the second automatic promotion place. This is likely to lead to wide-spread protest and legal action by the clubs, who feel that the Football Leagues initial decision of point’s deduction was correct.

Both the Football League and Leeds United have agreed to stand by the decision of the Arbitration Committee, and it is unlikely that either side will take further action. Leeds fans eagerly await the decision and it is rumoured that the verdict will be announced early this week.

It’s drawing nearer by the day.. the event of the year 2008 Search Engine Strategies New York Conference. As is the Charity Party…

For those of you who haven’t quite worked it out Mr Naylor is British through and through. He likes to support a good cause and in this vain we as Brits should support Mel Carson (Microsoft). Iv’e met Mel myself and have lots of respect for someone doing their bit for charity especially when the cause is close to their own heart.

Go Mel Go !

The National Association for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease needs support as do the other charities involved in the SES charity party.

Come on BRITS GET BEHIND MEL AND VOTE

Vote for Mel Carson Now.

I got asked into a meeting with the chesterfield sofa guys, to answer a couple of questions

one on how to help them sell a 15ft Lime Green Chesterfield Sofa .. (which I can handle ok ) more on that later. but if you need a 15ft chesterfield sofa it’s here
but they also wanted to know some good places for guides on how to take better photos or online photography schools, all the images they have on the site at the moment have been done professionally, but know they have their own studio and setup now, so I want some urls of sites that are about photography.

DaveN

All the links on my blog are now straight forward links, Please don’t make me ban you :)

DaveN

1) Buying and Blagging Links : this strategy is well known. A Good link buyer will get you links from semi themed sites or from links within the Body.

A bad way to ask is “I found your site while searching for “keyword” and think we compliment each other” .. hmmm really I know my blog ranks for odd stuff and 9 times out of 10 the sites are really really off the mark.

A good way, backlink check your competitors, and manually go to the sites look at the content and style of link, you don’t want to be emailing your competitors feeder sites lol :) once you have found a backlink, hand craft an email.

Made up example..

I write a post about
Trellian SEO Toolkit - Website Optimization and Analysis Software:
KeywordDiscovery - Advanced keyword research tool and search term suggestion tool:

saying how kick arse awesome they are and maybe Wordze emails me and says

“hey great to see you using Trellian and Keyword discovery, we think we have a great product in Wordze and would love you to have a trial and maybe update your post about keyword tools” - you’ll have a much better hit rate, or

“I know you are busy and I thought your post on Trellian and Keyword discovery is cool. Is there any way i could PAY YOU to update your post and include MY WEBSITE”

2) Viral Particle Canon imo one of the easiest ways to get links, take the stumble, sphinn, digg crowds etc, if you can pass 100,000 of these people past a website a % will have blogs and another % will blog about your site product etc etc

3) Your Authority Mate, these are the people that can get a link from a PR8 or PR9 for free, tricky to get but once you have one in your pocket, expect your link network to be on the radar…

My StumbleUpon Page

Ok I have one friend on stumble upon, which is Stefan Juhl which isn’t cool so with this the best way to get friends ;)

Daven

Added stefan’s real site

I’m not going to push a big list of web designers, but who are your favourites and why ??

because I have a design company and I like my team

some sites we have done :

http://www.global-integration.com/
http://www.mdl.co.uk/
http://www.storminateacup.org/
http://www.explorer-group.co.uk/
http://www.tickme.com/
http://www.zippy.co.uk/
http://www.philiphalls.co.uk/
http://www.seagerassociates.com/
http://www.ripon-internet.com/

so feel free to drop your web designers name and a site in the comments below .. maybe we will make it into a competition :)

DaveN

Ok, it gets my vote of confidence, you see I’m a father of 2 and I would move heaven and earth for my kids..

and that’s exactly what Dogboy is trying to do with his missing children petition

So get over there and sign up, one man can’t change the world alone, but he can with the support of his friends.

DaveN

It’s 11:43, the last office hour of the year is approaching (provided the electricity company is kind to our servers), and all is well.

And on that note, DaveN, myself, and everyone else who’s been spamming you and your blogs for the last few years here a DaveN would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.

Cheers.