Video to confirm my LGF page rank findings.

Content is without a doubt king, but is SEO truly dead in 2010? What changes can we look for in 2010 for business web development?

Daron welcomes Rosetta SEO Director Chris Boggs to discuss the year in Search. They first comment on the blog post by Robert Scoble on 2010: the year SEO isn’t important anymore?

They also discuss the prodcuts of interest this year including Wolfram Alpha, cloaking and spamming, Bing, conversion, traffic, volume and more.

Bill Gates felt he was doing a good thing by creating a universal platform. What Gates failed to see was the growing fear of the concentration of power. This lead to governmental intervention against Microsoft through anti-trust suits.
Today Google controls 2/3s of all searches in the United States. Out of the $171 billion that is spent on advertisements every year in the US, Google claims some $21 billion of that cash flow.

The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 (also known as the Media Shield Bill) recently passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, meaning that the bill has been placed on the official calendar of business and could be considered and voted upon by the entire Senate soon. If the bill passes in the Senate, it will still need to be reconciled with a different version that passed in the House earlier this year.

I was reading a great post today about the CommentLuv and DoFollow plugins for WordPress. I agree that leaving comments on blogs running these plugins is a great way to make the best use of blogging time that brings back a return as well. Why leave comments on blogs that will not bring any traffic, or increase link juice?

Sure, it’s not cool leaving comments just for link juice, and trolling is never a good idea. With so many blogs running CommentLuv and DoFollow, you can have the best of both worlds: Interaction with a community, and link juice for your own blog!

I get the feeling that Aaron is not a big fan of using article submission for SEO and neither am I, here are 5 good reasons why article submission is a poor link building tactic and why you should publish your best articles on your own site as opposed to article sites:

Publishing the article on your own site and article sites is a complete waste of time as article sites generally generate very little traffic and only one copy of the article will be counted by the search engines.

P.S. If you don’t have bunches of money to give me fast online, as a special offer I’m offering absolutely nothing for only $19.95. Yes I know, you’re  asking yourself how in the hell I can afford to do that…

About a month ago, I stumbled on a new social media site called Posterous. What is posterous? Taken from Posterous’ website; “Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email us at post@posterous.com and we reply instantly with your new posterous blog.

If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world.