So there was this post looking for a 'black hat seo guru' - well hey - I just had to touch that one. While I am certainly no Guru, I do include all forms of SEO into my learning and studies.

This post actually started to move into some of the problems folks like Matt Cutts face when having to deal with larger authority sites and spam/black hat activities in general. Props to my fellow travellers SEO Kit and Seymour fellow SEO rant allumni 

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=223289

I wasn't actually going to post this one because of Cranky Dave (not me) and Spline were giong at it pretty good - but it's a great debate, so we'll keep it. While the post started off innocently enough, a debate over backlinks and passing PR ensued. Pretty good stuff really.

http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/viewtopic.php?t=16015&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Ol Cranky Dave started a thread with SEO Acronyms for the novices out there

BL = Backlink
CSE = Comparison Shopping Engine or Custom Search Engine (Google)
CSS = Cascading Style Sheet
DC = Data Center
DMOZ = Directory - Mozilla
HTML = HyperText Markup Language
IBL = Inbound Link
IPB9 = Internet Business Promoter
LSA = Latent semantic analysis
LSI = Latent Semantic Indexing
OBL = Outbound Link
ODP = Open Direcrory Project, See DMOZ
OWBL = One way back link
PR = PageRank
RI = Regular index
RSS = RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication
SE = Search Engine
SEM = Search Engine Marketing
SEO = Search Engine Optimization (Optimisation)
SERP = Search Engine Results Page
SI = Supplemental Index
SSE = Yahoo! Search Submit Express
SSP = Yahoo! Search Submit Pro
SWL = SiteWide Link
TBPR = Toolbar PageRank
TR = Trust Rank
VIPS = Visual-block Page Segmentation
WP/WP4 = Web Position/Web Position 4
XML = Extensible Markup Language

http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/viewtopic.php?t=16175

This is certainly one of my favorite areas because of it's importance and because enough people simply do not talk about it enough. It is a massively important area that get's little in the way of publicity. Let's see if we can't change that shall we?

"As far as Overture and other tools.. nothing is going to give you the TRUE data sinec folks like Google and Yahoo don't exactly publish it

Researching KW/Phrases comes down to a few potential paths for data

Search Operators (used to guage competition)
Overture data (potential search data)
NicheBot, Wordtracker,KW Discovery (provide various metrics)
Manual (looking at top competitors of potential KW targets)
PPC (run actual PPC campaigns to guage traffic)

There's probably more... it's 8am and I ain't quite awake yet.... This gives you a starting point at least in understanding the process "

http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/viewtopic.php?p=130045 and some more on http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/viewtopic.php?t=15821

KW research tools; http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/viewtopic.php?p=130263

I ran into a pretty nice list of Article Repositories sorted by Authority ( PageRank)

" I would be like to tell you From article submissions you will get permanent one way link it will help you to improve page rank of website and link popularity. When you submit article try to use title in which keywords you want to popularity. I am sure you will get your target by simple posting an articles + link building + directory submissions + by theme base links + Meta Optimization and buy High PR quality links and you can go for the link exchange some one in the market.

Here is some articles where you can submit your article. List are old not updated..
PR6
http://www.articlebiz.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.easyarticles.com/
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.goarticles.com/

PR5
http://www.anyarticles.com/
http://www.articlealley.com/
http://www.articlemotron.com/
http://www.articlesexpress.com/
http://www.articleson.com/
http://www.bigarticles.com/
http://www.earticlesonline.com/
http://www.ezinefinder.com/
http://www.iarticlebeach.com/
http://www.isnare.com/
"

There are a bunch  more on the list be sure to visit ; http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/viewtopic.php?t=15720

Well it has been debated to death.. but I haven't really posted a thread about it. Recently I made a small post about Google Bombing .. but this thread get's into the concepts and debates it a bit further for those looking for more details on the process

"Without drifting too far off subject, perhaps observing the effect of GoogleBombing could give us some answers. I didn't see the White House official websites PR going down as a result of irrelevant sites linking to it using the anchor text 'failure'................

If you could do this and wanted to focus your attentions negatively towards a competitor, you effectively could pull someones site down. "

http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/viewtopic.php?t=15570

Ok, I don’t want to keep getting funky on DP’s arse.. but how can I help it?

Hot on the heels of their journey into Black Hat and some other interesting anomalies are taking shape Seems to really be a big business in selling Signature links and even Avatars for advertising…

Man, some strange stuff there from my perspective...seems every square pixel of Virtual Real Estate is up for grabs…

Anyway, I ranted a bit over at WWS -- Selling Text Links and Selling Avatar Space

An interesting topic was broached recently that made me actually have to stop and put some pieces of the ol Logic Puzzle together, The topic centered around adding content/pages to a web site and how much was too much?

Can you put up 5-10 per day? Move an entire site of 1000s to a new domain?