Right-reading (adj): Having the proper orientation (used in printing)

Today is Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:21 am (U.S. central time).

“Having books published is very destructive to writing.”
-- Ernest Hemingway

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How to Get a Book Published

Over at Google Blogoscoped they’ve been talking about Google results for the query “how to get a …” Seems the things people appear to want are a passport, a six pack, a girl (or guy), and a book published.
Well, I can’t help much with the six pack, the girl, or the passport. But “how to [...]

Nofollow

Since getting back from the Yucatan I’ve been trying to catch up on my feeds. While I was gone a lot of SEO types were posting about nofollow again. The new twist is they’re trying all sorts of plugins and gadgets to selectively pass or bar following links from their blogs for PR.
People, this is [...]

MyBlogLog, yes or no?

Yahoo recently purchased MyBlogLog for $10 million. Some blogs I read have been touting the service. The idea, I guess, is to put a face to the sometimes invisible communities of blog readers. You could say it’s a kind of Facebook or MySpace service for blogs. For example, a MyBlogLog widget puts the images of [...]

Speaking of SEO

Speaking of SEO, here is a list of the SEO-related sites that have feeds I subscribe to. (I’m just an amateur who got into this when my website got penalized.) Maybe I’ll actually use this someday. Am I missing any important ones?

Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim
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Is SEO the new protection racket?

It’s beginning to seem that way. As soon as anyone says anyone negative about search engine optimizing, the SEO community (or, to be fair, one faction of it) jumps all over that person and tries to inflict punishment by driving down the offender’s pages in the SERPs.
First there was the unfortunate Kimberly Williams — a [...]