I’m headed to Atlanta today for three days. Stomper is holding a private event on Thursday, which is the reason for the trip. There has been a lot of talk about the “nofollow” tag causing ranking problems. We’re going to test this again to ensure there isn’t a sweeping problem. Also, the issue of duplicate content that I sent out last weekend has been causing some chatter. One member called me yesterday, who happens to be in the news business, said that she always knew the “dup content penalty” wasn’t what was being portrayed in the forums. “News is syndication. Syndication is duplicate content. Enough said.”

I couldn’t agree more. Just two more parts for the linking video series and it will be done. This is a massive three hour series … and a PDF will accompany it as well. And if you do reciprocal linking at all – the old fashioned way, I will show you how to do quick audits of your link pages to ensure that the quality you need is still there. I did an audit on one of my old affiliate sites and was shocked to discover that over half of the sites no longer had a link to my site. Upon further checking, many sites had been sold, retooled and were in a different industry.

I’ll check in again this evening after I get settled in … I should have some good quiet time to knock out some tested material.