Search Engines and the Microsoft Yahoo Fiasco

Today we learned that Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo is a thing of the past. Jerry Yang thinks he should get $38 a share and apparently Steve Ballmer at Microsoft won’t budge from his initial offer of $31, although some suggest that Microsoft was willing to go to $33.

Search Engine Spiders are Hungry!

SEO professionals, and hopefully their clients, are acutely aware that it is a very competitive world at the top of the search engine pages. When you are vying for top positions on the major search engines, you are now way beyond the mundane tasks of meta tags, title tags and other basic internal components that are best described in Search Engine Optimization “101.”

Google Search Rankings and the Grocery Store

Sometimes a simple analogy goes a long way towards explaining how things work. Search Engines and Search Engine Marketing are often times confusing to consumers and businesses alike. What is Search Engine Marketing? How does it work? What can it do for my business?

The US Economy, The Media and Your Online Business

While the media, traditional and online, provides its daily drumbeat of negative economic and financial woes, there seems to be precious little discussion of what the hard facts really are in the US Economy and the global economy.  You would think from all of the mindless chatter and stale debate between supply-siders and demand-side promoters [...]

How to Keep Marketing Costs Low During an Economic Downturn?

It is not a secret anymore; nor a gossip. We may not be technically in a recession yet (2 straight quarters of GDP negative growth) but we are certainly experiencing recessionary conditions and psychology. How can we not with the constant drum beat of negative news played over and over again in the media. We are on the edge of recession in the US and everybody feels it. Dollar is down, oil is up and profits are falling. Banks are losing billions of dollars and a lot of businesses are going bankrupt. So, how can we keep conducting business and acquiring clients without losing our focus and keeping patient?

Google and the Corporate Focus

The biggest SEM Conference in the world was held in New York City in March at the Hilton Hotel. This is one of the few events where SEM Companies, Agents and Independent Websites can gain knowledge and the most recent Industry News on all aspects of SEM including SEO, PPC, Social Media and Social Book marking. Industry giants such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and many other companies show up with speakers, and also to promote their presence.

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