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I can’t help saying this: I just had a hosting experience of my life. I don’t do a lot of reviews on this blog but this experience was so good that I just have to post about it. But let me start from the start. Recently I was forced to change a hosting provider for…

No, I am not talking about the infamous Fail Whale. And moreover, the big news is that it looks like the biggest fail of the last 5 years has just been fixed – but not due to Twitter’s efforts. Twitter is huge, this is not news to anyone. A site:twitter.com search in Google returns 1,750,000,000…

I must confess: I am pretty conservative. Not to the point of totally not accepting any changes – but if there is no real pressing need to change anything, I won’t be looking to change it. Moreover, you can guess I am not typically particularly happy when a change affects something that was well usable…

Google has announced its switch to SSL by default for search for logged in users and it immediately became a big topic of discussion and even outrage for the SEO community. Here’s a detailed explanation of what this move means by Danny Sullivan. Here are some SEO reactions across the web to these news. Main…

Yahoo has just killed its old API. They said they would so this is not really a surprise. All the tools dependent on it are now down. Bad news is that I, like many other tool developers, will now have to rewrite my tools like this one. Good news is that there is a bunch…

A quick heads-up for those of you who have bought my directory ebook: following the Google toolbar PageRank update, I am going to release the updated ebook soon. Even though Google itself now tells webmasters not to obsess over Pagerank, PR still has its valid uses and besides, I have a promise to keep. So…

Google +1 button for sites came out today and if you were signed up to receive the announcement you could get it right into your email inbox, otherwise you can see the setup page here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/ (official announcement on Google’s blog). What do we know about this beast tho? Here are a few things I…

If you’ve been using Blekko you know that it is pretty cool for SEO information – e.g. it has slashtags for a site’s inbound links (I suspect we’ll all be using this one quite a lot once Yahoo kills off its linkdomain: operator), duplicate content, site pages (an analog of Google’ site: operator) and many…

Yesterday everybody wasn’t talking about much else other than the royal wedding, even in the SEO/SEM context. So I thought I’d look at the SERPs for the “royal wedding” and see what interesting can an SEO learn from these. First of all, you can imagine that with the amount of attention the even has received,…

It’s been two years since the first release of my Directory Marketing Reborn ebook and I thought I’d celebrate it with a new free tool for my ebook readers. This tool is the long-awaited Keyword Competitiveness Tool. It lets you check the competitiveness of your keywords in Google.com as well as 5 regional Googles: UK,…