Very information reply as always EGOL. Any rough estimates on how long for the full link's effects to be in place? 4 weeks?

When I began to learn SEO, I read everything I could find. As a result, I learned a lot of bad information. Since that time, I have tried to rebuild my SEO knowledge.

For the most part I rely on Matt Cutt's videos, his blog, and SEOmoz. In particular, I only trust a few individuals who have clearly demonstrated themselves as industry professionals, have solid knowledge and are consciously trying to share their experiences. On the one hand, that could limit me from learning new things in some cases, but since my time is limited it protects me from the seemingly endless pit of bad SEO information.

It is my understanding that once Google or another SE has indexed your page and the linking page, the link would be immediately established and any juice would flow immediately and completely. I have never encountered any discussion of an aging process with regards to the time it takes for a link to achieve maximum effect.

I have seen discussions which discussed the theory that an older link had more value then a newer link, but those theories were discredited.

It may take a couple months for the Linkscape to see the link and your moz toolbars to update, but you should be able to see the link in GA.

Thanks for the explanation EGOL. It makes perfect sense, and represents a great thought process. Your views clearly take SEO to a higher level and define the difference between "on paper" SEO, and in practice SEO.

I love the creativity of your answers EGOL. You definitely offer outside-the-box thinking.

I am trying to wrap my mind around the concept of gathering a group of competitors to work together. Search engine ranking is purely about competition. You can have a poor page rank as #1 if it is better then the pages of your competitors. If you boost your ranking or exposure, but you strengthen your competitors at the same time, how is this beneficial?

I can understand this tactic when an outside force jumps ahead of you in SERP. But when it's just your site and other wedding sites, where is the advantage?

This has been said before, and will probably be etched on the SEO tombstone should the concept ever die.....

Create compelling content that people will want to link to!

• Since you are in the industry, find a celebrity or person of interest who is getting married in Maui and write an article about it. Article title: Maui Wedding Bells Ring for Jennifer Anniston

• Do research and find an interesting statistic to talk about. Article title: Maui Weddings - The Secret to a Happy Marriage. Did you know that according to the latest statistics couple who wed in Hawaii have longer lasting marriages?....

Somehow you MUST generate unique, compelling content that people will WANT to link to and talk about. Otherwise you are simply a beggar asking for a handout. The world is full of them.

Yes, Google indexes XML files. You can try a search using filetype:xml

I am not an expert on RSS files but I believe the XML versions use the <rss>tag. If I were to take a guess, I would say Google can easily examine the file (they read pdf's for example) and determine if it is an RSS feed.</rss>