Time for me to vent for a bit. I’ve been an affiliate for Yahoo! for years, and I have promoted their Search Marketing team for a long, long time. They called me last week to offer me a special promotion that they were running. Essentially, their Fast Track Service for their Pay Per Click model […]
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Google Adds New Features to Google Sitemaps
Google makes more additions to their already powerful Sitemaps program. The areas that are of interest to us are it now reads and tests your robots.txt file, shows you the common words to your site and incoming anchor text, and the page of your site which has the highest PageRank. I have yet to see […]
Google AdWords Out Performs Yahoo! in PPC
Google AdWords Prevails Over Yahoo & MSN Says Survey According to the results of a survey of 1,200 advertisers performed by Outsell, Google’s AdWords search marketing unit is more effective than Yahoo or MSN (although MSN adCenter is still in limited run) search marketing offerings. “Yahoo and MSN face extended minority status in the ratings […]
Secret Weapon – Yahoo! Fast Track
Want to know one of our best weapons to drive qualified traffic? Pay Per Click marketing is no secret, but Yahoo!’s Fast Track service is not well known, even by the SEO Community. Discover why this is a service you should be using and even get the ENTIRE setup fee waived. But it is only […]
Google – Update “Big Daddy”
From Matt Cutts Blog: Matt was on Webmaster Radio recently and in case you don’t want to download a 70 megabyte audio file, here’s the latest on Bigdaddy. “Bigdaddy” is the name of the current update. The name came from the “round table” discussion with Matt at Webmaster World in Vegas a few months ago. […]
Google Sitemaps
Google Sitemaps have been discussed heavily since Google first announced the new system over the summer. Matt Cutts discussed it but did not demo it at the New Orleans Webmaster World Conference in June. Just before the Webmaster World Conference in Vegas earlier this month, there were some new features added and Matt Cutts actually […]
Google to “Hook Up” Advertisers
November 26, 2005 — In a further hint of its plans to integrate telephone service with its advertising platform, Internet search king Google is testing a service that connects consumers directly with advertisers by phone on the company’s dime. The service, dubbed “Click-to-Call,” is the latest indication that Google is eyeing e-commerce. Earlier this week, […]
SEO Revolution Launched
The SEO Revolution Blog launches.
DMOZ Info
Directory Updates As I finish compiling the sheet on which directories pass PageRank, I have been getting a lot of questions lately with the simple question, “What is going on with DMOZ?â€. I wish I could give you a straight answer from them, but they don’t respond to emails or phone calls. Personally, I haven’t […]
Google Launches Blog Search
No “size matters” jokes here, just straight to the info. On Monday, Tim Mayer announced in Yahoo’s blog that they have increased their index – and not just a little, by a lot. Yahoo! now claims to have 19 billion documents in their index, which is up from a “meager” 6 billion that had last […]
Highly Recommended Tip: Web Stat
For the third month in a row, I am getting referrals to domains I manage from web-based statistics packages with the full username and password in the URL. This allows me to access the site’s web statistics as if I am the admin. How did this happen? The admin sees a referral in their log […]
Slurp: Winner of the 2005 Stupidest Bot Award
Slurp: Does it Again Seriously, I have never witnessed anything like this before. It is like Slurp is taking a giant step backwards. It is as if Slurp has never seen dynamic content, or a SSI before. According to the testing results. 72% of Yahoo!’s index is duplicate content. When I say duplicate content, I […]
Yahoo! Increases Their Index – or Did They?
No “size matters” jokes here, just straight to the info. On Monday, Tim Mayer announced in Yahoo’s blog that they have increased their index – and not just a little, by a lot. Yahoo! now claims to have 19 billion documents in their index, which is up from a “meager” 6 billion that had last […]
Yahoo! Update
Did you get stung by the recent Yahoo! update from last week? Get over it. The update will not be complete for another week or two, but I would like to give the same advice I do each month. Stop tracking your rankings. Successful web marketing is based on sales, leads generated, AdSense revenue, etc. […]
DoubleTrust Provides Insight
I was forwarded this site to review, and it looks like an impressive research tool. DoubleTrust allows you to search both Google and Yahoo! and it lists the sites that rank well in both engines. Inputting keyword phrases that you are targeting for your site and seeing which sites show up at the top in […]
Business Review: Marketing Sherpa
Marketing Sherpa PDF Files For those of you who are considering purchasing Marketing Sherpa’s PDFs covering the SEO community, I suggest that you pass. The 368 page beast was difficult enough to get through let alone swallowing the $199.00 price tag. The SEO firms that are featured aren’t even rated. Very disappointing.
Google Sitemap Introduction
Earlier this morning Google launched their new Google Sitemap program. They will allow you to submit your site through an XML feed, similar to the Trusted Feed program with Yahoo! (yes, I know it has been renamed, but I am “old school” so it stays as “Trusted Feed”!). Now, Google has always stated they would […]
Blank PageRank on Toolbar
Blank PageRank on Toolbar In what I just thought was a temporary glitch late yesterday, has turned into an ongoing problem and is worth alerting you to. Every site (Google included) shows a gray bar for the PageRank. Now with the recent update, it would make sense that they would go through a PageRank update […]
Google AdSense Revenues Down
As the saying goes, “once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, but three times is a trend.†We saw our AdSense revenues take a dip in March, and they took another dip in April. This month? Still down. Now, when looking at the numbers, the page views are consistent, the click through percentage is […]
Google Factory Tour
If you didn’t make it to the “Google Tour†(I had previous commitments) here are some highlights: * Google launches a Personalized Homepage, a sort of ‘My Google’, that lets you plunk recent Gmail messages, Google News, newsfeeds from providers such as the New York Times, weather, and other bits of information onto Google’s homepage. […]