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lol excellent! Well worth a watch

"if you want to be like me, you've got to stay search friendly"

trust me, the air was blue

Here's a good thread
who calls me from 07775151175?

Starting from scratch, if it was me, I'd go for a killer URL with contained my preferred key word.

Then start with a good framework, plan how your site will look, content wise. How many clicks will get me to your juicy content, or a potential goal conversion. Once you have your structure in place, you can add content to it logically instead of randomly bolting on stuff.

Start with a well optimized homepage, outstanding title tags, good content. If you have enough content to make it readable/usable and you are happy with the quality, then make it go live. I doubt starting with 3 pages or 20 pages would make little difference in the Google Gods eyes, but once you have you a decent framework in place, you can just keep adding content as you go along, and Google will happily index it as you add it.

Biggest mistake I made was to launch MLS USA all in one go with 14 million pages We live and learn.... Matt Cutts said large sites need to drip feed their content slowly into the index, but this is purely for sites with hundreds of thousands of pages.

You'll have domain age working against you as a new site, but good on page SEO and content will see you right.

Oh dear, anyone who uses SEO Moz may have noticed a lack of web crawler results. They have been utilizing the Amazon Web Services model, and to cut costs, have been using Amazons Spot instant pricing, which allows them to ramp up computing power for very little cost, assuming there is spare capacity...

Whoops, as Amazon ran out of spare capacity which then impacted the web crawler service.

But SEO Moz have been very open and transparent with their situation, so hats off to them, and they are hoping to have their service back up again by this Thursday.

Interesting seeing the comments people have left, the openness seems to have done the trick with only one person asking how paid members will be compensated

But it is a fascinating insight into large scale cloud deployments, and food for thought if you decide to utilize cloud services yourself.
Crawl Outage - An Update and What We're Doing | SEOmoz

Nope thumbsdown

It looks like Facebook is about to introduce some major changes over the coming weeks to it's look, feel and usability.

Us fickle humans don't like change, so it will be interesting to see what we all think.

There's more on this from Mashable, but here's an interesting quote, I wonder if this rings true with anyone..

"For Facebook, it all boils down to one problem: emotion. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users and spectacular levels of engagement, but it is a platform that has lost its emotional resonance over the years. More and more people visit Facebook out of necessity rather than desire. It

Been to one as a guest, know a few people who swear by them and claim to generate some good business leads.

For me personally, (and the one I went to) I felt it was a bit full on, with everyone just wanting to sales pitch me to death, and there seemed to be a lot of rules, you must bring a lead etc. In the end, I didn't think it was viable for my kind of business, as we are a one off low cost product, so the membership fees and associated time commitment didn't make it viable.

Maybe your kind of work though you'd find it more beneficial? Wouldn't hurt to try it out as a guest and see what you think.

I tend to find most offline networking groups are a bit full on on the sales pitch front