Patrick, you truly are a boon to this community. Good combination of sense/compassion (my reply to this would have been lacking on the compassion front). The

Patrick, you truly are a boon to this community. Good combination of sense/compassion (my reply to this would have been lacking on the compassion front). The bummer of the SEO world (which I can't decide how Google will solve) is that the "more pagerank than God" sites can churn out mediocrity and immediately rank higher than higher quality stuff. Mashable is more linkworthy just because it's Mashable. They toss out a Scott Pilgrim review and it gets hundreds/thousands of retweets, likes, and links... More than anyone else on the topic. They get the links, not because it's the best review, but because of the SEO foundation they've built and the link-engine they have in place. SERP placement seems to be self-sustaining-- to assail a trusted site's position, it seems like you need content that is way more than merely better.