Pilgrim’s Picks for August 20

Monday, August 20th, 2007 by Andy Beal

Happy Monday morning to you! What, not feeling too chirpy today? Grab some caffeine and enjoy these great nuggets.

Mert Sahinoglu inspired SEOmoz’s recent video on Wiki-jacking. Mert’s back with a follow up on a black-hat technique for dropping wiki pages from Google’s first page.
Congratulations to Barry Smyth. His excellent Australian Search Summit has partnered with Danny Sullivan and will become SMX Sydney in 2008.
More than 14,000 Facebook and MySpace users have lobbied Cadbury’s to bring back the Wispa chocolate bar in the UK. My mum loves Wispas, so she’ll be chuffed!
If you’re going to announce the results of the study, release the actual study at the same time as the press release! Unfortunately Fusion PR will only reveal that 78% of technology journalists read blogs, 67% cite blogs in their articles, and 35% maintain their own blog.
My good friend Garrett French reveals a five point strategy for building link hubs.
Jeremiah has details of a new white paper on social media measurement – great stuff!

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September 17th, 2007 at 8:46 pm

Wow! Forgive the pun, but that Wispa news is sweeet! They rock

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