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I hear your frustration, and like a lot of web related businesses from designers to directories to self styled SEO Gurus, the net really is awash with low quality idiots.

But, and a big but, there's a reason for this. The majority of people aren't willing to pay for expertise, skill, talent and knowledge. Everyone wants a quick fix, a quick site, lots of bells and whistles for minimal budget. So everyone ends up with a basic wordpress template and a few plugins,

As it seems every other website these days uses some form of CMS such as wordpress, drupal etc. What makes these platforms popular is access to templates, pretty straightforward to implement, and plenty of widgets to customise your blog/site.

But Matt Cutts has warned about links in widgets which pass pagerank straight back to the widget creators site. So if you use lots of widgets, you are potentially giving away plenty of pagerank, especially if these are on your home page.

So Mr Matt is telling widget makers to nofollow their links. Personally if I was a widget maker, then I would have thought part of the reason was to gain backlinks, making your own site more popular, allowing you to monetise and create new widgets

Obviously Google doesn't believe in the ecommerce ecosystem...

Google's Matt Cutts: I Recommend NoFollowing Links On Widgets

Be interested to hear what any web designers or widget makers think?

Holy Moly! A few amazing near fatal misses there. See the arctic swerve round the woman in the road?? How did she survive that?

As for the bloke at the end who was thrown from his cab and landed on his feet... Someone was looking over him!

none, internet is littered with spammy get rich quick ebooks, most of them are worthless.

Just try it, open an ebay account, and use it to learn about online selling. Start experimenting and join communities, forums and groups etc to get some ideas and swop strategies.

To be fair, had some interesting feedback after posing a question about the merits of LinkedIn, and was it worth any time and effort.

It seems to have potential for a lot of smaller businesses, where you have some genuine feedback on your profile page (not the endorsed rubbish). LinkedIn is perceived as being professional, so positive feedback is also perceived to be valuable.

Still not entirely convinced, and not sure if you would class it as a social media site, jurys out on that one. But for a little bit of work, ie tidy profile and garner some feedback, the page then becomes pretty static, and stands the chance of generating leads moving forward.

Got to be worth a go! Anyone who would like to offer some marvellous feedback, fill you boots Steve Richardson - United Kingdom | LinkedIn

Google has announced more changes for the search results. This will suit article writers, bloggers and people generating genuinely interesting content.

It is based around structured data, and marking up content using schema.org/Article

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: In-depth articles in search results

Well worth investigating and I shall be having a good play with it in the near future. If anyone has any questions, just shout.

Welcome aboard Biomass.

Just a gentle nudge about self-promotion. When you have done 10 posts, you will be welcome to have a forum signature, which you can add web addresses etc and will act as a soft sell on every post you do.

But it is an interesting topic, and will confess to knowing nothing about Biomass boilers and the like until we had RECC (Renewable Energy Consumer Code) join us on My Local Services, and asked us to set up some new categories.

But this Renewable Heat Incentive from the govt, do you think people will be a bit more sceptical after being stung with solar panel feed-in tariff cuts? How do we know the same thing couldn't happen again or are there any safeguards before people go out and invest in new boilers?