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It seems that lately (well not only lately) everybody keeps talking about how Twitter will soon become the new Google or Facebook will soon become the new Google but it has been a while since anybody has mentioned Icerocket becoming the new Google. In the meantime, when have you last taken a look at it?…

I’ve been playing with Twitter lately and while many say (and I can’t help but agree) that Twitter is really a huge time waste I do find it handy when you need to reach people quickly – especially since a lot of people in the SEO industry seem to have replaced their email and IM…

Since I started using Google Reader I play with it quite a lot on a daily basis. Besides the obvious minor bugs I have discovered, you can also do all kinds of things with it, e.g. spy on people. Recently, while subscribing to more blogs, I have noticed the following: This is what you normally…

I’ve been looking through my feeds in Google Reader when I noticed that my previously shared items have “Shared by: you” next to them. Well, it appears that this is the sign of what has just been announced on Google’s official blog: …starting today, your friends will be able to reply to shared items with…

So I finally caved in and decided I need to update myself more often on the industry news. I thought the easiest and computer-independent way to do it (since I use multiple computers over a day) would be to use Google Reader – especially since I can share the items I like on it. For…

A while ago I did a post on different link building strategies and mentioned which ones of them do not work any longer or with a traditional approach. People have been asking me which methods do work – but that’s not such an easy question to asnwer as there are too many variables one has…

Since one of the services I specialize in is investigating site bans, I often get approached by site owners who think their sites have been banned. However, it is not always true and very often, site owners take a penalty for a ban. Of course, to a site owner, both are equally bad: the site…

Ask.com has announced this week that they are going to support the new canonical URL meta tag.  Thus, Ask has become the fourth search engine that intends to support this new meta tag, after similar announcements earlier this month from Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live. However, even though each search engine gives detailed explanations as to…

Those of you who have noticed my blog unusually empty with all posts gone in the last few days have probably been wondering what kind of a disaster has happened to me. Nothing too scary, it was just me rehosting this site to a new server. Problem is, my backup feed from the old location…

It just caught my attention that Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool now has this interesting option in its filters: Yes, as testified by the above screenshot I took, Google external keyword tool now offers you to include adult content in your keyword results. This is something people have been having trouble with for a long time,…