Cool, there will not be a monopoly created- until the next scheme deal.
Faced with the prospect of a lawsuit by federal antitrust authorities, Google decided to pull the plug on its proposed search ad deal with Yahoo. “After four months of review, including discussions of various possible changes to the agreement, it’s clear that government [...]

Google hosted an online “Tricks n Treats” session with presentations from Googlers, with question-answering time too using Google moderator.  Matt Cutts was there of course, and John Mueller, Kaspar Szymanski, as well as other notable Googlers.

It was an informative session and I’ll highlight what I believe was interesting. They covered topics such as the new [...]

A common question we are asked by clients is when a website will be ranked by Google, Yahoo! and others after a new design, redesign and launch? After launching a website that is SEO optimized for high search engine rankings, the next step may be the worst to endure.
For many of us in the online [...]

Since its earliest days, Google Inc. has largely promoted its search engine and search-advertising products through word of mouth and partnerships.
But in recent months some of the Internet company’s executives have been pushing for the company to overcome its aversion to paid advertising. That has created some conflict within Google, which is maturing and looking [...]

Google recently posted an article urging Webmasters to not screw with (or screw up) their dynamic URLs, and  sometimes URLs just need to be retooled to reap the ultimate SEO rewards.
This article said that Webmasters shouldn’t attempt to make dynamic URLs look static for three reasons: the giant can effectively crawl dynamic URLs, some of [...]

Google’s stock has dropped below $400. So it’s a good time to revisit the company’s value. Google’s enterprise value is about $125 billion and the company will generate about $4.5 billion of free cash flow this year.  Google is therefore trading at about 27X current free cash flow. Not ideal for a confidant “buy” but [...]

Sunday afternoon, on the eve of their 10 year birthday, search engine giant Google started what has come to be known as the “Google Dance”.
A birthday party? No.
Tango competition with Argentenian dancers? Nope.
Break dancing competition in the Bronx? Nah.

Here is a great example of classic Link Bait. This young woman will receive a link from us for being creative and many others because it is funny. This just reassures that taking a chance and posting some funny video to the web can get you ranked in search easily.

For a long time now, Paid Directory reviews have been a positive way to establish back links to your website. You get the human-edited review of your listing (for a fee of course…) and in most cases the proper anchor text surrounded by relevant content with a link, or set of links pointed back to [...]

Just when you thought the internet couldn’t get any better, Google launched it’s own web browser!  I’m still testing it, but it seems to be very lightweight, and nothing on anyone’s site seems to be broken…yet.  I’m even posting this blog post using Google Chrome.  Another piece in the Monopoly wall?  Check it out here: http://www.google.com/chrome and [...]