rotten bananas

So I was playing with the Page Strength tool over at SEOmoz (it turns out rotten bananas falls only slightly lower on the scale than TechCrunch), and it’s actually a pretty cool tool. It takes into account a number of factors from link counts to Alexa rank to domain age. Check it out if you haven’t seen it. But I digress.

What got my attention was this helpful little note at the bottom of the report:

If your report contains missing data, try refreshing it.

If what now? If my report contains missing data? If that happens, pushing the refresh button will be the last thing on my mind. I’ll first be making a call to Stephen Hawking for an explanation that will surely be beyond me, but I’ll feel smart while politely nodding and saying, “mmhmm… mmhmm.”

I don’t mean to pick on SEOmoz because, well, they’re bigger than me, but that one made me laugh.

On a separate note, like I said, I’ve been reading up on SEO lately, and so far I’ve found two “star blogs”* on the subject: Tropical SEO and the Scoreboard Media Group SEO blog. They share a lot of good info and viewpoints and manage to do it with a sense of humor, which is a crucial part of maintaining interest while learning anything new.

* “star blogs” is a term that I just pulled from the dark to mean “blogs that I enjoy reading”