Mikkel and Dave handle technical issues like pros and welcome Rand Fishkin on to talk about Linkscape and a few other things going on at SEOMoz. They talk about the pros and cons about quick fix SEO tricks that may work today but hurt you a few years down the road. They also discuss the upcoming elections and where to move if you your candidate doesn't get elected.

Mikkel and Dave give their review of the new Linkscape tool unveiled at SMX East 2008 along with a discussion of link analysis issues based on back link data from search engines, plus Dave comments on his blog post on Google quality links from pr10 domain available for free.

Dave and Mikkel discuss SEOmozs Index of the Web and the Launch of their Linkscape Tool announced at SMX East 2008, UK Companies and eu tax laws, plus special guest Joost deValk tells us what he is working on besides SEO, and he and Dave reminisce on their first meeting.

Dave and Mikkel review Google Chrome and commend the new browser for its speed and the efficiency of its plugins, plus they discuss the erroneous report that said United Airllines filed for bankruptcy which led to a stock drop.

Dave and Mikkel question if there are seeing the signs of Google moving away from Links and Pagerank as we know it today and if so are links losing their value, plus they discuss how to secure your future SEO strategies.

Mikkel tells us how he is being spammed by Google after a Google Adsense account he had was shut down and he was unable to remove himself from their email lists, plus they discuss the additions made to Google Trends where you can look at trends of other domains except for any Google application.

The aggressive takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft, including the antitrust experience Microsoft has deal with in the past plus how Google plays in this.

Link buying, the Microsoft Yahoo takeover bid, Alexa rankings, their love for Microsoft Live Search, and Google Rankings are all topics of discussion on this edition of Strike Point

Mikkel and Dave look back at their experience at the Search Marketing World conference in Dublin, Ireland and they discuss how organic questions keep coming up at sessions and how search engine reps are not able to answer them.

Dave discusses a blog post on an Adesnse block that he discovered that got a PageRank 3 with and the use of solid links, plus more talk about ranking and content.