SEO Freelancer

Forums vs Blogs

QualityGal at Jim Boykin Blog says 'there is still value for forum as community in certain instances.' But I think there are no some instances as forum is community - public building, but blog is like hut for a single loneliness - lone person - pls, notice: not a pair or three of ones. Proud community of oneself.

• 1. Forum is a multiuser thing from the beginning. Blog is for the individual.
       * Can you name any three multiuser blog scripts, besides WordPress MU?
• 2. Blog is personal diary - for a person. Forum is social diary.
• 3. Forum has very easy, readable UI - anyone can easy find interested topic and get input for discussion. Blog launches article and then subsequent comments.

I love forums, as well blogs. At forums you speak loud. At blogs you speak low, almost wisper to the ear.

Blogs are whispering community. Forums are Coliseums.

Min Number

Is there a Minimum Number of Pages Required for Decent Organic Rankings? A recent hot topic, as question implies simplicity, strategy, tactics, user experience, link environment, site age / respect, and more.

Let us remember that:
1) sites are made for humans, not for bots, spiders, crawlers, nor any robot (Rule #1 by Google)
2) the least of pages is greatly depends on quality of the delivered information
3) quality of content defines min efforts for info delivering.

One page is a min number of pages. We can create a single html-page with just one image containing, for example, map of the city or metro, hand-made nuclear gun scheme, UFO message to the Earth - any image which will deliver socialy important information. People will digg it, stumble it, bookmark it, link to that page and eventually we will got a hot Page Rank. Or, we could invite Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, Time Warner to put into our single page their direct links - eventually we will got PR10.

But where is quality of content?

That seems topic (Min Number of Pages) aided towards min linking structure, and rather behaves to the esoteric question of SEO Alchemists - whether there is a minimum structure of connections for achievement Top Rank results? That question goes directly to Google' Patent and we can suppose, probably, that - yes - Minimum Number of Pages exists! But, in every special case! with its ethics, informative structure, environment, its audience, with the inner voice and message.

It is an abstract question.

Bug and Dragon

If you are even not a fan of Opera or in case Opera is your magic powerhorse, you might be interested to know Opera alfa-released its own Developer Tools called Opera Dragonfly, which allows debug JavaScript, inspect CSS, DOM, and view any errors.

I don't know what the most popular browser SEO Freelancers use, but Firefox maniacs (as me) love additional Firefox plugins, especially beloved Firebug - a Firefox important Web Developers Add-on (created by Joe Hewitt in 2006), which is now free and open source, and available for IE, Opera and Safari.

Sooth to say, I never heard of any Web Developer with Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. But you?

Search Optimization Monkey

Recently Yahoo launched Search Monkey - an open developer platform which will allow site developers use

'semantic markup and structured data to enhance Yahoo! Search results and make them more useful, relevant and visually appealing'

For freelancing SEO Optimizer that means rise of new wave of services, widgets, microformats for SEO specialists, as we all know Yahoo delivers more quality results on backlinks, number of indexed pages. In this sense Yahoo make faces of Google with Search Monkey for Search Optimization.