On December 18th and 19th, in San Antonio, Texas I will be facilitating a small focused Internet marketing and monetization conference with Lee Dodd, Jeremy Shoemaker, and Dave Taylor.

Post about self bias in selecting media to consume, what media they share, and how they interpret the media with a self-biasing worldview.

Some companies and websites throw away their link equity and do not enjoy the full authority they should have due to poor information architecture and spreading their brand across many domains.

It is better to use the trends in search and the web to your advantage then it is to get marginalized trying to fight them.

Scott Smith and Aaron Wall are proud to announce the launch of Clientside SEM, a search engine marketing firm focused on helping mid to large sized companies improve their organic search results.

Quintura updated their website to allow you to use their free latent semantic indexing like keyword research tool from their home page.

Compete and Quantcast offer free competitive research information.

Microsoft included fake billboards in the launch of their bird's eye view local mapping product.

The Democrats won control of congress.

Post about how many low quality link sources are obvious to search engines, and how gaining a disproportionate number of low quality links can hurt your site.

Post about why tactical SEO without much business strategy is wasteful.

Post about how I consider he Wikipedia to be much more of an advertisement than most people consider.

Post highlighting a few interesting quotes from others about how venture capital may be losing its relevancy.

Post offering tips about trying to come up with ways to make your site relate to important link rich concepts.

Some large marketers are testing using scented packaging to help sell more products.

Google recently bought JotSpot, a wiki maker. This furthers Google's attempt to become the default web host for more types of data. If they host the data they have a huge competition over competing businesses because they get to see and confirm changes to the web graph in near real time...much quicker than their competitors.

Aaron Wall interviews Scott Smith, also known as Caveman on WebmasterWorld and throughout the SEO community.

Google announced the launch of Google Customized Search Engines, which allow you to create topical search engines biased toward topics or websites of your choice.

Daniel Kovach announced the first ever college scholarship for bloggers.

Example of a reason why Google PageRank is no longer as valuable as it once was.