Another contender for the hottest 100 web design: Grow Collective

This site provides an interesting column layout which is carried throughout their site. I’m not sure it works so well throughout the rest of the site, but it makes me want to read everything on the home page.

It’s so nice to feel we’re not alone. This cartoon from The Oatmeal has happened to us and if you’re involved in any kind of web development I’d hazard a guess it’s happened to you to. If you’re feeling frazzled by your clients this might make you feel better:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

I’ve just read an article by Axandra, the people who make IBP the do-it-yourself SEO software. This article is a concise and easy way to explain to customers the different approaches needed in SEO depending on the level of competition. It also outlines the importance of links when trying to achieve a top ranking on a competitive term.

It reiterates the importance Google places on incoming links, so let me repeat again, if you want to go after a competitive keyword term then you better have a lot of high quality links. For help on link building visit our link building packages.

Enough talk, go and read the article.

Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, discusses how he sees the future of the web. The clip below is a 6 minute excerpt TechCrunch cut as the meat in the sandwich.

Google has released a statement about having low quality backlinks to your website. In typical Google fashion it’s not very specific, however I’m reading that having a heap of low quality links to a site that doesn’t hold a lot of weight can effect rankings. Read the article here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/dealing-with-low-quality-backlinks.html