There's been a lot of debate about whether external linking helps or hurts your SEO and most of the SEO experts including the gurus at SEOmoz tend to think of external-linking as a good strategy.
Fixing "Googlebot can't access your site" Aug 19, 2011
Got this email from Google about one of our websites recently:
Googlebot can't access your site
Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered XX errors while attempting to connect to your site. Your site's overall connection failure rate is XX%. You can see more details about these errors in Webmaster Tools.
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After you think you've fixed the problem, use "Fetch as Google" to verify that Googlebot can properly access your site.
Go Get A Cofounder [Mistakes I Made #5] Aug 3, 2011
This is the 5th post in the "Mistakes I made" series, where I share the "donts" of my startup experience.I'll start from afar. My website has a number of pricing tables and I thought the tables look just fine. Until one morning I realized that they're a complete usability nightmare. Here's the "before" look: