During a chat with Jill Whalen at the conference

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She notes that criticism necessarily follows growth - and that she paved the path of building both loyal followers and devoted critics long before I was on the scene. Hers aren't a bad pair of footprints to follow in. 11:00pm GMT, February 18th I really should turn in for the night considering how terrible I am at falling asleep here, but instead I'm talking to a friend about how Linkscape's next evolution is going to bring a lot more statistical rigor to the SEO process.


He's probably thinking that my proposal is ju telemarketing leads, turkey telephone number data st a crazy pipe dream, but Ben, one of our Linkscape engineers, has convinced me this is going to work. Just plug in a search query and an engine, grab the top 30-40 results and Ben's system runs keyword & link analyses and spits back an algorithm that would produce those 30 results in that order, along with probabilities for what it would take to move from position X to position #1 (more link juice? trust? anchor text? better keyword optimization? internal link popularity?).


I'm geeking out pretty hard, and I've had at least four glasses of Stella (according to Ciaran, the Brits call it a "wife beater," even though in the States it's a fairly posh brew - and we reserve that phrase for an unflattering undershirt). When I get back to my room, instead of climbing into bed as I should, I jump on the computer. My status message in Gmail says "Email is My Life" and it's true.