I’m running a test to PROVE 30 Minute Backlinks produces results. Brand new domain, nothing done to it as far as promotion EXCEPT 30 Minute Backlinks.

“30 Minute Backlinks” did well in it’s pre-release and I was able to work out some server/script bugs that occurred, as well as getting some questions from early buyers so compiled a FAQ that answered the most common questions, as well as get some general feedback on the system like this:

Paul Smithson is having a webinar on July 4, and 6. The topic of the webinar is "XSitePro Webinar Demonstrations." [Webinar]

Jon Miller is having a teleseminar with guest speaker Anne Holland on Thursday, July 31 at 11 AM PT. The topic of the teleseminar is "Exclusive B-to-B Lead Generation Insights." [Teleseminar]

It's search popularity statistics time again, and I'm starting off with the latest figures from comScore. Finally, a change -- Google slips while Yahoo and Microsoft gain. Trouble for the Big G? Not really -- because in terms of raw number of searches, June 2008 was another record breaker for Google.Click to continue reading...

Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web.From Search Engine Land:Very Recent & Addictomatic: Finding What People Are Buzzing About Right Now! Tom Churm pinged me about a new tool that he's crafted, Very Recent, designed to pull back top results from "recency search engines," for lack of a better word. Blog search, n

Tom Churm pinged me about a new tool that he's crafted,Very Recent, designed to pull back top results from "recency search engines," for lack of a better word. Blog search, news search, social news plus Twittering, all in one. It needs a lot of work, but I found it a pretty neat idea. And it reminded me of Addictomatic, which is also well worth a look.Click to continue re

Google announced that it had acquired "Begun," a Russian contextual ad service, for $140 million. The service had been a unit of Russia's Rambler Media. Rambler also owns the Russian portal Rambler.ru. As part of the deal, Google-enhanced search results and ads will appear on the Rambler portal site. According to Reuters, Rambler expects annual growth of online ad revenues to be 50 and to reach $1

TechCrunch reports that Microsoft is testing their self-service AdSense/YPN product named Content Ads. The truth is, as TechCrunch said in an update to his post, they have started this pilot earlier this year. I have a post at the Search Engine Roundtable linking to the pilot enrollment form.Content Ads is still a very exclusive and limited beta test. Google AdSense is widely used by publishers

The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a recording of the webinar they hosted, along with the Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer team. The webinar is available in a 60 minute YouTube video. In short, the webinar reviews the features of all three tools, Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer.Here is the video:Click to continue reading...