Question for dburden?
I looked at your blogs, nice job btw, and noticed that you link to your main site via the profile page and on the side navigation.
I noticed that on your main site (I think) there is only one link back to a blog (in the footer) but not the other blog. I also noticed that the blogs are interlinked as well. (Isn't that bad? I'm a noob and I thought the links had to be one ways..the old A links to B then B links to....scenario?)
Is that for a reason? (I ask since I have two sites but thought linking out to the other site would be bad news)
I'm not being as clear as I'd like but I like your "linking fearlessly" like that but am afraid to try it and get my blog wasted by Google.
http://safetyenforcement.blogspot.com
I'd love to hear any thoughts you'd care to share about linking and blogs. Especially since they didn't get touched by Google YET, my fears of my e-commerce site being adversely affected by my blog posts with links to the product page, may be unfounded. Like the cooler heads have said "Wait a week until it calms down and we'll have a lot more answers"....it's been a long week!!