We all know how important inbound links are to Search Engine Optimisation. A new and easy-to-use service has recently launched allowing you to achieve this in a few simple steps. The web app, King of the List, allows site owners to create links (with chosen keywords in the link, which is also important) and push these links to the top of a list, dubbed “crowning”.

One user even claims to have been included on Google within 24 hours as a result. I’m not entirely sure this is the direct result of using King of the List but it’s an interesting concept and a cost effective way of starting the essential task of building inbound links.

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I attended Monday night’s Creative Out evening organised by Robert Loch, of Internet Peeps fame, and it was a thoroughly entertaining night. The format was informal with attendees invited to talk for a minute or two on creative concepting, with socialising and mingling afterwards. There were a variety of people from designers and entrepreneurs to writers and journalists.

I met Jemima Kiss, a journalist for the Guardian New Media, who wrote an excellent breakdown of the night and had kind words to say about My Neighbourhoods on the Guardian blog:

Also present was Danny Bull, creator of myneighbourhoods.co.uk. It’s a fledgling social net that he described as a combination of UpMyStreet, Fish4 and MySpace. The idea is to help people communicate with their neighbours and, though it’s still early days, he said members have already started emailing each other. Two of them have started jogging together. From small seeds.

Find out about future events at the Creative Out web site. I would highly recommend attending if you are based in or around the London area.

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My Neighbourhoods was again picked up by the national press last week; Lucia Adams from the Bricks & Mortar section called to find out more about the site. The short article mentioned My Neighbourhoods in relation to to a report by the National Association of Estate Agents.

Fortunately it [neighbour-networking] is also an activity which is increasingly achievable online: www.myneighbourhoods.co.uk is a new website that will enable you to get to know the locals without actually having to meet them.

Read the full article

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We do:

Get your own at BananaName.

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My Neighbourhoods has been reviewed over at The Good Web Guide. The review is extremely positive and summarises by saying:

The site is simple to use and registration is free. A great idea and useful tool, everybody needs good neighbours, everybody needs MyNeighbourhoods.co.uk.

Read the full review on The Good Web Guide web site.

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