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Quite a few blogs haven’t yet implemented the dreaded “nofollow” tag on comment links. While comments on these blogs will pass link juice nicely, there’s a snag: How are you going to find them? This ultra cheap software cuts it down to a single-click action

Our list of SEO / SEM blogs has now expanded to 203 entries - the most extensive on the Net. It will soon be available as an SQL database with enhanced searchability.

The Search Engine Wars have flared up full scale again: the contenders vying for the attention of shareholders, investment consultants and search marketers alike, it is not surprising to see them flaunt their index size figures all over the place - and once more truth constitutes the first victim. What’s more, these shamelessly skewed statistics are bound to dramatically impact all search and web analytics including those conducted for search engine optimization purposes.

If you’re into serious “black hat” stuff, don’t miss out on this excellent overview of tools. They’re certainly more fun (and way more effective) than sanctimoniously generating “organic” content spam by the ton.

Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch points to fantomNews and our monster list of SEO / SEM blogs alongside with some others you should also check out.

Remember search engine voyeur pages, displaying in realtime what people were actually searching for? They were all the rage in the end-nineties but have generally been dropped since. Now, DogPile’s rejuvenated the concept.

Vertical search extreme: this engine allows you to search for open source program code, helping you avoid reinventing the wheel or running afoul of existing copyrights.

If you’re hard pressed for free quality content to fill your web sites, your Shadow Domains™ and your blogs with, copyright free and all, why not let the U. S. government help you out?

The RustySearch Search Engine Relevancy Challenge is requesting your help: having hit 5,000 rated queries recently, the aim is now for 20,000 to achieve a more varied statistical basis.

What with new RSS feeds cropping up all over the place, it’s getting ever harder to keep up. Here’s a comprehensive overview of all currently available Yahoo! feeds.

Big things going on at MSN search: RSS aggregation, bookmark maintenance and publishing, search result clustering, and more. Take a look to get an indication of what may be the future of search according to Microsoft.

This cool embedded browser can be customized and included on any web page - an ideal tool to promote your services and products, including RSS feeds. It’s even WAP compatible.

A study conducted in collaboration by meta search engine Dogpile and researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State University debunks the pervading myth that all search results are more or less alike.

Our list of SEO / SEM blogs has now expanded to 180 entries - the most extensive on the Net.

Taking competitive intelligence to yet another level, this incredibly useful search engine is definitely one of the coolest SEO / SEM tools we’ve seen in a long time – a must check!