One thing I did notice is that on G's announcement page about their new anti-comment spam thing, they have that Dave Barry blog as an example... so they are watching, even if apart from that they can/will do fuck all to stop people gaming their algo.

Blog (or any) spam tends to force legit sites into PPC anyway.

Thought that This
article was an interesting view given how much we all hate guys like this. |angry|

The thing that gets me - as much as we hate the way these guys do this spamming - is that in order for it to work, the blog owners have to make it easy to post comments from an outside source instead of using a very simple htaccess command. But then with all of the idiots running their own blog now - it isnt hard to believe.
And I can guarantee not a one of those blog owners is gonna take the time to type a line of code into their links if they cant type a line into their comments log :)

What htaccess command are you talking about? Adding the correct referrer header is one line of code... the whole open comments thing is just stupid.

I am seeing some movement again for some pages - nothing major but something is definitely up

Yea...its moving.....cat terms are FULL of spam/blog....so expect this stuff to shuffle around.....

WOW google booted me to the basement - help

Give it some time - this thing is long from finished playing :)

Another thing I noticed is that new categories pages are being added into the Google index with blinding speed - pages I just put up 4 days ago are already ranking and GGs new cats are already in the top 20 with no problem :)

Whoa... awesome, hope they keep their good rankings! |thumb