Laura Lippay, Yahoo’s SEO manager, posted a response to the recent topic about Yahoo! Autos cloaking.
There are dozens of groups within Yahoo who manage hundreds of products and properties that maintain some of the largest, most trafficked sites on the internet consisting of millions of pages and gobs of new content being pushed out all […]
According to Techcrunch.com and Search Engine Land, Google is acquiring Feedburner for a juicy $100 million. Pretty funny…we were just recently discussing this within the office as a possibility. We all agreed it was a logical next step for Google to get its hands into the growing RSS market. It also lets Google get a […]
Interesting article at Webpronews.com today discussing a recent ban imposed on Netvertise, Inc. by the FTC. Apparently:
The FTC alleges the company violated federal law by selling franchises for Website design, promotion services, and SEO software under false claims.
In addition to the ban, Netvertise will have to return $160,000 to its customers, as part of […]
Facebook.com is set to make a big announcement this Thursday, May 24th. The Wall Street Journal and Cnet speculate that this announcement will bring another level of social media to the networking giant.
“On Thursday, the Palo Alto, Calif., company will announce a new strategy to let other companies provide their services on special pages within […]
I was doing some research to prepare for another post, but to my surprise I found something even juicier. Yahoo! is cloaking their (fixed typo for the professor) Autos pages, serving keyword stuffed pages to the SE crawlers and regular pages to the average users. I was browsing as Yahoo!’s Slurp crawler and […]
We built a widget in-house and released it to our consumers earlier this year. This was our first widget so we pushed it as much as possible with a small level of apprehension due it being our first voyage in the world of widgets.
Since we developed the widget in-house we were able to add a […]
Just finished reading some speculation and rumors floating around at Mashable.com and Telegraph.co.uk regarding a possible takeover of social networking site Bebo.com by Yahoo!. It’s not coming cheap either. Yahoo is reported to be in discussing a $1 billion acquisition. Telegraph.co.uk reports that Bebo has an estimated 25 million users worldwide, compared with MySpace.com’s 100 […]
DaveN’s got some solid advice on building links. Check out the full post here:
3 step plan on links
1) 1st batch of links: You need to gain your authority to play in that market place, but don’t over do it, being way too authoritative for an industry is sometimes worse than no authority at all. […]
Caught this post about Thriving Office at TechCrunch.com. Basically they’re hawking recordings of office noises for small business owners.
Here’s the pitch:
Small businesses know they must seem successful to become successful. So they play Thriving Office while they’re on the phone. This valuable CD is filled with the sounds people expect to hear from an […]
One portion of this article/interview at Searchenginejournal.com about Hewlett Packard’s in-house SEO team caught my interest. About halfway into the article Jessica and Tanya discuss the utilization of external SEO resources to augment your in-house team and resources.
Jessica: I always tell in-house search marketers that you need outside council, just like a corporate attorney […]