It’s link-fest time again folks, so let’s dive right in and see what’s been happening in the world this week.

Guest-posts a-go-go!

It’s been a big week for guest posts on SEO blogs this week.
James Duthie (my buddy from Online Marketing Banter) dropped a great guest post on Dave Harry’s blog to help out while theGypsy himself recovers from a broken hand.
And Shana Albert took a big step this week, asking for help on her blog and opening up to taking guest posts there.
I want to wish both Dave and Shana all the best for speedy recoveries.  It sounds like Dave’s hand is on the mend now and I hope that Shana is able to get herself back to full strength and up to speed soon as well.
I the meantime they both seem to be getting a lot of great help from their guest-blogging friends.
Linda Bustos from GetElastic.com also popped up with a guest post this week on Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim Blog, where she gives us some really useful tips about how to set up filters for Google Analytics.  Looks like I’ve got some settings to tweak this weekend

Great Big SEO Controversy Of The Week

Money.co.uk published an official apology following the last couple of weeks worth of hoaxbait-gate and even a mention on Australia’s MediaWatch TV show for the made up story about Ralph Hardy.  In their post they confirmed that, “The contractors responsible for this mistake are no longer associated with money.co.uk in any way.”  But Lyndon doesn’t seem too bothered.
Hopefully this’ll bring an end to it and everyone can go back to what they were doing before this all kicked off.

Great Big SEO Controversy Of The Week 2.0

More in the ongoing saga of Jason Gambert and his spurious attempts to trademark the term SEO.  Now the delightful Sarah Bird has picked apart some of Jason’s more ridiculous claims from the latest round of submissions to the US Patent Office.
Add to that the latest revelations from Arteworks and Michael VanDeMar in tracking down another Gambert sock-puppet effort to dig up dirt on those opposing him by emailing their clients posing as an “SEO Investigator.”  He even contacted a charity that Arteworks helps out pro-bono.
Epic shady-backfire Fail.

How to get advice from Matt Cutts - One word… lapdance

Frank Watson posted his quandry over at the SEW blog.  How do you keep your hat white when trying to provide SEO services for a porn site (an industry which is notoriously rife with blackhat tactics)?
Clearly stating his noble intentions and mentioning Matt specifically in the post’s title seemed to do the trick.  Matt stopped by and left a comment with his advice for Frank about way he may look at building quality links to his client’s site without going down the dark route of spammy p0rn directories.  Turns out our boy Cutts knows a few names to drop from the adult entertainment business.  Good lad

The Funnies

NickCakes, the “Reformed” *cough* BlackHat posted a brilliantly funny rant about how Jason Calacanis is ruining the internet with Mahalo.

Kevin Smith released the long-awaited internet teaser trailer for his upcoming film, “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” which you can see over at quickstopentertainment.com or just scroll down the page a little to watch the embeded YouTube version right here.  ** Warning - This video is NSFW - Lot’s of potty-mouthed language**

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And there we have it for another Link-Fest.
Enjoy your weekend.  And remember, be good to yourselves and each other.