@Hansolo: Absolutely true. Every so often I read a newbie SEO guide, just to remind myself of the fundamental concepts(then of course, to expand on them). It’s too easy to get wrapped up in one aspect(like backlinks), and forget the entire rest of SEO.

@Rob: Great and Thanks! I love anything that spreads the word

@seanmag: I didn’t want to put too much in there, but I’m afraid this one would require CURL. Or if your host allows it, file_get_contents() on a url. But the concept would be you’re pulling the Yahoo API data, say once a day, and organizing the pages by # of inlinks currently recognized. You also have a list of the most important pages/your expected amount of competition.
Switch the no-follows around accordingly, channeling the link juice into the pages that need the largest bump

I think I missed how, exactly, this can be automated. It may be because I’m a sketchball. Would you mind explaining or directing me to a reference source. I definitely don’t have the capability to write a CURL script.

In any case, thanks for the great article.

It’s amazing how one can be in this busiiness, thinking about it constantly for many months, and still be learning the fundamentals.

Sphunn and keep em coming.

You can even give away tons of links and still hang onto most of your juice.

Once thing to be careful of, it is bad practice turning a home page into a hanging page, and be careful of highly efficient linking structures being ruined by an external link turning it into a sacrificial structure.

I much prefer cyclic structures

p.s. that link to me is broken, which is why I didn’t see a trackback.