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Google has just launched its instant search with a great buzz around it (even a promoted trend on Twitter). People’s reactions differ, some like it, some do not, others (like Steve Rubel) predict that it will be the end of SEO. Others (like Brett Tabke in that post’s comments) argue that it “opens the door…

As you may know already, as a result of Yahoo’s transition to Bing as a backend for organic search results, the linkdomain: command has stopped working (MSN/Live/Bing discontinued the support for such commands a while ago). I’ve been seeing 0 results for linkdomain search for some time already – must be due to Yahoo/Bing testing…

Generally, I have nothing against link exchange. If done carefully (=3-way at least, not reciprocal), with the right sites, without involving the super-spammed “resources” pages that scream “Designed for link exchange!”, it works wonders in certain markets. But I guess we’ve all received one (or a hundred) of those lame link exchange requests offering you…

(This was intended as part of the previous post. My WordPress somehow posted only the beginning of this post yesterday. Hence, let’s continue.) To run an effective Twitter campaign, you need to first of all decide what it is you want to run it for – is it increasing the brand awareness? is it getting…

Much has been posted already about Twitter marketing – and now here’s my take on it. Everyone seems to be on Twitter these days, they always talk about how great it is for business, but do you personally succeed with it? Or do you personally know a lot of people who successfully drive traffic and…

Google’s updated interface has finally been rolled out across all the datacenters so I thought I’d check how it affected the “buy Viagra” SERPs. “Everything” results are pretty traditional for this query – they are just regular search results. Highlights: #1 is a spammed .edu with a redirect. #2 and 3 are online pharmacies with…

I am happy to announce the new release of the Directory Marketing Reborn ebook – the pagerank update happened in April (uh oh, Google tends to do it once a month now it seems) and here you go. What’s new in this release: a reviewed list of directories with updated pageranks (of course!) I have…

I have noticed that Yahoo has gone even further in its experiments with displaying the sites structure in the SERPs than Google with its displaying the navigation structure instead of the URLs. Here’s what Yahoo shows for results from Wikipedia: I have not seen this done for any other site besides Wikipedia – but I…

I often get inquiries from small business owners who are struggling to promote their site but cannot really afford hiring an SEO to do it for them. In the meantime, they may have the time and inclination to try it themselves but simply do  not know where to start. Search engine optimization may seem pretty…