I posted a little while ago about my attempts to optimize my blog for search engines. I think it's working.

Take this example. This morning, I linked to an article on Prince of Petworth about a new restaurant opening in Columbia Heights, CommonWealth Gastropub.

Now, PoP is a near-deity in the greater Columbia Heights/Petworth/Logan/Shaw area. It's a good blog. I read it regularly.

I, on the other hand, am a relative unknown who complains too much.

PoP went to an early preview at CommonWealth and took pictures, then wrote an article about the experience.

I linked to the article, and offered very limited commentary.

Now, go do a little Google search for commonwealth dc gastropub. you will notice that item seven is my post.

The first item from PoP is item 23, and it's not even a link to the most recent article.

So, on one hand, you have a good blog that did some real journalism. On the other, you have a blog, where half the readership was at the author's wedding, that just linked to the real journalism. But I show up first on Google.