Shoemoney has been banned from MyBlogLog. This is no hearsay. Shoemoney has confirmed the news himself.

I have been banned from MyBlogLog… Since last night every page I visit on their site results in a 403 (Forbidden) error code. I have asked others and nobody else seems to get the error but me.

A little while later, he posted an update saying:

Aaron Wall has a good post about pulling out blogs from Google Supplemental Index. The methods listed include:

• Relevant and deep links
• Make longer posts and turn comments on
• Remove/downplay sitewide repetitive features
• Optimize your internal linking structure     

 As per commercial sites, Aaron says that you need to do all the above and in addition you should:

Chris Garret, the CEO of Performancing after Nick Wilson resigned recently, has announced the closure of Performancing Partners. He announced the closure by saying:

I'm sad to tell you that Partners has to close. While I have every faith it could have worked, it wasn't going to happen fast enough. Without more money invested it wasn't going to happen at all.

Seems like a dangerous hacker is on the prowl. Some SEO blogs have been hacked including Graywolf's SEO Blog and Stuntdubl. The hacker has an account  at WordPress which has been closed now.
The hacker also writes

My name is XXX. I am XXX years old, I live in XXX and I’m what some people might call a “computer geek”.

Blogs offer a number of useful functions such as trackbacks, comments, and RSS. Thus blog optimization becomes a useful part of search marketing. Blog software can help in improving the rankings of a site as it can manage particular type of content like post FAQ, give product updates and provide an online media room.
 
There are category features in blog software which can lead to assemblage of content according to themes. Thus making it simpler to algorithmically categorize content. Your site can get good ranks for those topics if the search engines can easily understand your content. Search engine spiders can easily find and crawl blog content as most blog softwares give simple URL structure. In short blogs can bring more traffic and can be a helpful site optimization tool.

Guy Kawasaki has completed his debut year in blogging. He reviewed his blog 'How to Change the World.'  He reached at the conclusion that blogging is not a  money-spinning business. He also says that blogging is not a boosting factor for web 2.0 applications.

Matt Cutts has expressed some of his favorite blogs. Matt Cutts used Google Reader to subscribe the blogs. According to Google Reader Trends Page, Search Engine Land is his most favored blog. His other top four blogs are Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Journal and Google Blogscoped.

Performancing.com has terminated the deal with PayPerPost firm, which pays bloggers for writing promotional topics on advertisers’ products and services. The deal was being talked about juat a week before. As per the deal, PayPerPost would have acquired Performancing to get services of some 28,000 Performancing workers.

Nielsen BuzzMetrics has released a list of top 100 blog posts of the year 2006. The word-of-mouth-measurement firm has made inbound-links analysis of different blog posts between January 1 to November 30, 2006 to prepare the list.

Based on the inbound links from other blogs during this period, a Mother Livejournal post, ' 2006 Petition Against Changes in the Livejournal Interface' was rated top most blog of the year. The story got nearly 801 links in 786 posts.