Tag Archives: “Google”
Yahoo is Screwed
So Yahoo officially announced that its talks with Microsoft have concluded they have once again failed to reach any kind of deal. There are reports that Yahoo may soon announce a search deal with Google. They’ll basically be outsourcing search to Google. Throwing away a core competency key to its long-term success for short-term gain. In my eyes I feel like Yahoo really botched this whole thing.
Digg Looking for Buyers
So TechCrunch recently reported that Digg is looking to be acquired. Note that this is not official and is an unconfirmed report. Among the parties bidding on Digg are Microsoft and Google. I think it’s about time and if Digg doesn’t sell soon, it’s going to have to lower its expectations more and more. Honestly, apart from their “algorithm” which can easily be reproduced or emulated, there’s nothing special about Digg other than its large user base. That in itself is not a unique advantage. Yahoo just released a similar site called Buzz and I think Yahoo can find ways to leverage its massive user base and channel traffic through Buzz.
Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion
Well I fire up my RSS reader and of course the big news everybody is talking about this morning is Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Yahoo. I always thought this would be a good thing considering there’s just no way Microsoft by itself can compete with Google in search. Microsoft’s share is just too small and while Yahoo is ailing, it has lots of valuable assets and web properties (aside from the obvious main Yahoo portal), hence the enormity of the offer. If it happens, it would be one of the largest, if not the largest tech takeover. Microsoft can probably fund a huge chunk of this acquisition using cash they have on hand.
Google PageRank Updates
So it seems Google recently pushed out a PageRank update and this site is now a PR5. A lot of sub-pages and older posts are also PR4. The site used to be PR4/3 so basically it’s a plus 1 increase - not too shabby since I don’t do any SEO for this site. It’s most likely due to the size of the site (posts) and the age of the site because I have very few inbound links. My business site stayed a PR3 but a lot of content pages picked up PR2 so that’s good. Bad news is my Stuffbox site dropped it’s PR altogether!
People Should Hire Me For SEO
My business site came flying out of the Google sandbox with a PageRank of 3 - this is after about 5 months, a little earlier than expected but hey you never really know what Google’s algorithms will do. So I recently checked and my site is now listed in the first page for a geographically targeted keyphrase relating to one of my services. Cool.
This post is half serious, I’m still not quite there yet in terms of being some type of “search engine marketing consultant” but I can effectively gear new sites for organic seo and achieve recognizable results. The truth is SEO isn’t really that hard - you just have to know what you’re doing. Find a really effective way of boosting listing on the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages)? Don’t tell and keep milking it. And charge for it. A lot.
Finally Accepted Into Google Adsense
Okay, so I finally got accepted into the Google Adsense program recently. I’ve mainly been trying to get my Stuffbox site and this site into the program but got rejected twice. The Stuffbox site got rejected primarily because before there was a membership structure and most of the site was member-only restricted. And I guess with the proliferation of content-rich blogs these days, they are more open to them. Click here to read more