Thursday June 26, I was privileged enough to hear a presentation on the basics of link building by Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal. Loren, gave a solid beginning to intermediate level preso, focused on building authority through internal links and delivered some good advice to those that might not have any experience in dealing with the touchy subject of link requests. All and all, his approach was straight up.

I'd like give a word of thanks to the guys over at the S. Florida SEO meetup ... John Carcutt, Daryl Long, Mark Laymon, and Mark Hughes, and all the others that made it another great night. I'm really looking forward to hearing what might be on the agenda for the up and coming months, and may be inclined to start focusing my attention a bit more to Tech Crunch after listening to what Loren had to say ... (hmmm ... ) That's it.

Pics @ the preso ...

I just wanted to post a belated (June 9th) birthday shoutout to Shana of Social Desire ...

Shana is a friend of mine that contributes an enormous amount of her time and energy to blogging about all things Social media, Web 2.0, and search engine optimization ...

Besides being an incredibly disciplined and driven blogger, a full-time mom, and a darn good writer, she too is a very sweet and endearing person that I hold a great deal of admiration for ...

So, without further adieu ...

Shana ...

Happy Birthday to You ..

I went down to Miami with my good friend Mark from A List SEO to BarCamp Miami ... I didn't have tickets to the show I really wanted to be at, the Future of Web Apps, So I figured that at least I could hang out and get to meet some people at BarCamp.

Well, meet people I did ... and a lot of them. I was lucky enough to hang out and eat dinner with Larry Masters, the master mind behind the CakePHP framework. From our talks, I am definitely going to be checking out how I can start reaping the rewards of CakePHP as a rapid application development Framework.

Some of the other great guys that I spoke with were Kevin Marks, a developer advocate from Google ... Edgar Caballero, the senior technology consultant from Altra-App ... Jason Baptiste, CEO of Publictivity ... David Di Cillo, web and print designer with ThirtyNine ... Gary Schulthesis, & Craig Agranoff from Vois ... Sunir Shah from FreshBooks ... Eamon O'Connor from Refraction Films ... Onajide Shabakaka from the Miami Art Exchange ... and many more ...

So, from what I thought was going to be a nice get away turned out to be a networking home run ... some of these guys are making really big moves in the development community ... most notably, is Larry ... if that guys team works on a web application ... you are almost guaranteed that it's going to be rock solid.