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One of the things I love about blogging and the internet is that skills I learned 12 months ago are completely obsolete today.

In fact I am sure there are some posts on Jamdo that are simply not applicable (or as applicable) to building a popular website starting today, as they were back when I wrote them.

That means I (we) have to keep learning. To some people this is a pain, but there is something about it that I enjoy. And let’s be blunt - if you don’t enjoy it, you’re in the wrong game.

SEO is one of the skills that is always changing, but luckily there are a few guides and blogs that have some very solid and relevant advice to SEO and link building that is applicable now -  Feb 2007.

Jim Boykin - this is one of the top SEO and link building blogs around. He is whiter than white-hat so if you take some tips off this blog, you will do well in the long term at zero risk to your own site. Well worth a read.

Andy Hagans - possibly the king of the white-hat link builders (and charges for his time accordingly!) No huge secrets for people who are into SEO, but solid information and well worth keeping up to date with what Andy is doing. He runs this blog with Patrick Gavin. Update: Looks like Andy is leaving Text-Link-Ads which is associated with that blog!?! You can always catch him at AndyHagans.com I hope!

Jim Westergren - a Swede who is into the SEO game has a great little SEO guide that is well worth a look. This guide contains a solid foundation of information that any white-hat SEO should be familiar with. The guide has been recommended by Andy Hagans, Jim Boykin and Barry Schwartz (of SearchEngineWatch.com)

If you read and follow the advice of these SEOs there aren’t that many places you can go wrong. Their whit-hats techniques in link building should really appeal to anyone who is in the game for the long haul and wants their sites to do well without shady techniques that carry the risk of banning.

Read! Learn! Enjoy!

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As you have probably heard, Wikipedia has now added nofollow tags to all of its outgoing links on its English language sites.

This was actually brought about by a small time SEO competition, according to SEOMoz, in which Wikipedia experienced a surge in spam linking.

SEOMoz is also smart enough to realise that this will not deter serious marketers who sprinkle their links throughout Wikipedia in an effort to increase brand recognition, site authority among a targetted audience and generally because they might even have good content to offer. (Links are not always about SEO).

One interesting point that the famous Google engineer, Matt Cutts remarked is that in his ideal world, Wikipedia would pass link juice only to their trusted links, but not to their untrusted link.

Could then we see a situation where if a link in Wikipedia manages to stay unmolested for a certain period - say 6 or 12 months - it’s SEO link juice will be returned?

Perhaps an idea for the future.

But in short, if you have good, relevant information this shouldn’t really stop you from sharing it with the Wikipedians.

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