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Well, people were waiting for it, Steve Rubel was writing about it, now we got it. PR Web has officially announced the new trackback functionality for the press releases published on its site. We’ve yet to see all the good points and weaknesses of this new technology, but it is certainly an innovation worth mentioning…

Well, it all started with USA Today publishing an article on SEO which was so poorly written that it didn’t stand any criticism – and of course people in the SEO community picked on it and posted about it and certainly linked to it – Aaron Wall posted about it on Threadwatch, Lee Odden posted…

So the recent news discussed by everyone is Technorati adding the Filter By Authority slider (OK I don’t see it as really big news as there was a clear tendency towards that move – Technorati has been offering sorting the results by authority for ages now, the only difference is the interface and that now…

Social bookmarking and tagging come to play an increasingly large part in today’s Internet. It is not only an online community thing any more as it concerns a much larger audience than any particular community alone. To understand why, let’s look closer at the concepts involved: Social Bookmarking Services – online services that let you…

I’ve been playing with some social bookmarking stuff over the weekend and came across something interesting. I believe I have seen somebody mention it before but can’t remember now where I first saw it mentioned. It’s a tool included in Kinja’s Language tools called Readability test. the way it works is pretty straightforward: you enter…

So as some of you might have noticed I added me a nice little blogroll on this blog. All these blogs ended up in my blogroll for a reason so I’d like to take some space in this post to actually thank these great people: Aaron Wall of SEOBook whose blog I check first thing…

I’ve been doing some searches today and as I came across this i felt obliged to make a screenshot and post it (click it to see a bigger image): I do realize this is a glitch of some sort, but it still looks impressive

As I type this the show on webmasterradio.fm is running – the topics discussed ranging from sandbox and 301 to subdomains, Bloglines and Viagra. The chatroom Webmasterradio is packed!

Recently, I did a class for a group of copywriters on how to find ideas for site content, press releases and other SEO-related types of writing. As I thought this might be interesting for the rest of SEO community I am posting here my keynotes for the class, slightly edited and expanded. Whatever it is…

After the last Google algo update, sitewide links are not treated the same any more and it’s no secret to anybody who hasn’t been living under a rock for the last few months. Infact, I have heard people referring to what happened as “sitewide links penalty” – even some well respected and known SEOs with…