SEO Blog

It is mid-April and here on Southern Vancouver Island, this is the short space of time linking the rainy period and the dry period into some sense of the seasons. That’s what got me thinking about linking, that and the fact I am hosting a telepanal of link-building experts as part of the second Metamend BrainJam on Friday afternoon.

Links are not normally thought of as an interesting topic to think about but this week especially, lots of other people in the search engine and SEO sectors are thinking heavily about links. Aside from the fact many of us have just returned from SES NY, (nice pub crawl eh Glenn?), and links were a major subject of discussion there, an extra amount of attention has been paid to links recently, especially paid links.

Matt Cutts, Google’s Quality Czar, recently asked webmasters and Google users to report any and all paid links by noting them on their own pages or by contacting Google to inform them when they are found on others. Predictably, this has the SEO community buzzing, especially those with businesses, blogs or websites that depend on paid links.