Comment on Why Nofollow PR Sculpting is Bad for Search Engine Optimization by Mark.

Viral Marketing I check subscribe stats under – Google “webmaster tools” – “your site on the web” – “Subscriber stats” , when I check this I see only an handful.

So I guess my conclusion is there are SEO guys and SEM guys. If I could somehow take the best parts of SEM without changing too much, this could only help.

I want to continue focusing on the interesting content approach but with a little SEM, then maybe it would not hurt. Time users spend on my site is pretty long so I will try:
1) Put more opportunities for people to subscribe and make the invitation really tempting or easy to notice with interesting RSS icons etc.
2) Maybe in paint.net create a simple logo (gives sites more a professional I am here to stay look).
3) Start guest blogging
People tell me ‘fans’ or subscribers will start to promote the site, they like. (This is true, my cousin was the latest friend of mine to buy one if your Talian themes.)
So I think a loyal fan base is important.
However, it can not replace SEO or content. This should always be first. Content and organic search has been very kind to me.

Your election site rocked. It was higher than the BBC for many keywords. If there is no UK election in 2010 in the fall :) Make it a general UK politics site somehow.