Yahoo released the new SiteExplorer, which forced me to fix the SEO Link Analysis extension, which now works again with Yahoo's new interface (it won't work on the old one anymore).
Microsoft has also updated their webmaster portal, I'm currently figuring out how to include that again, but have for now disabled it. So go check [...]

To get you through the weekend with a healthy dose of B2B SEO, here's another guest post by my colleague Erik-Jan Bulthuis, the third in this series, after B2B SEO: Marketing strategy for specific niches and B2B Content SEO.
In this third article of the series about B2B SEO we'll be talking about link building. We [...]

Dave did a good post about nofollow sculpting, and he got a very good quote from Matt Cutts:
Nofollowing your internals can affect your ranking in Google, but it's a 2nd order effect.
My analogy is: suppose you've got $100. Would you rather work on getting $300, or would you spend your time planning how to spend [...]

Here in the Netherlands we have this long history of having so called startpagina's. They're basically collections of links to websites around a subject, with each subject having it's own subdomain. They're named after startpagina.nl, the first, biggest and probably best of it's kind, and there are many, many, many, many clones.
These pages were notorious [...]

Sometimes you get email from people asking you for a link, and their requests just demand that you out them... I've decided that from now on, everyone who emails me with a stupid link request e-mail, which shows that they did not look at my site for longer than 1 minute, will get a blogpost, [...]

It happens to me more then a few times a day at the moment, which is quite a luxurious position I guess, that I see new unique referrers in my statistics. These are new sites linking to me. But sometimes they're not... Sometimes, it's a post that has been there for 3-4 weeks, or even [...]

Some of you had already noticed that I've added a link back to my blog in the footer of articles in my RSS feed, like this:

I didn't do that because I thought you guys couldn't find my blog. It was actually a plugin requested by Shoemoney, who wanted to make the scrapers work for him [...]

Remember that Greasemonkey script that I recently updated? Well, maybe you should just forget about that... I'd been working on a version of that script which works on Yahoo Site Explorer and MS Webmaster portal too, and now I've gone even one step further: I've bundled the three of them, and turned them into a [...]

Wiep has done some great SEOmoz style link value survey: Link Value Factors. Among those surveyed: Aaron Wall, Eric Ward, Debra Mastaler, Jim Boykin and my Dutch friends Peter van der Graaf, Martijn Anschutz, Andre Scholten, and ow yeah, me, of course ;)