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Microsoft and Yahoo Cleared to Form Search Alliance |
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The long awaited regulatory clearance for Microsoft and Yahoo! to form a search alliance is now fact. The search industry had been expecting this partnership to materialize for over a year now. The following is a form letter sent out to both Yahoo! and Bing adCenter advertisers;
Dated Feruary 18, 2010 11am PST
From Yahoo!
Dear Advertiser,
Yahoo! and Microsoft have now received regulatory clearance to form a search alliance. This is a significant milestone and an exciting first step in our combined effort to help you reach even more customers with greater ease and efficiency.
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Google 2.0
Microsofts has been aggressive in marketing their new decision engine BING. With millions being spent on grabbing market share and following up with a new Yahoo deal, it seems Facebook may be jumping into the search game as well. They've just aquired Friendfeed which opens the door for developing a full blown search engine. Maybe they'll call it FaceWeb, anyway, it seems Google has taken notice. After napping on the laurels of their success for several years Google woke up and has been developing a new version of their search engine called Caffeine.
Do we dare to call this Google 2.0?
If you'd like to check it out, you can find the New Google Search Engine Here Update (Parts of Caffeine have been implemented into Google, this link is now dead)
So far there's only a slight increase in speed, however there are also zero ads being served and this may be what is causing a snappier response. Also, the results are only slightly tweaked. Do a search on the main engine then one on the sandbox and you'll see a minimal shuffle in results.
Will a bit of speed be enough for Google to fend off the vultures?
I seriously doubt it and I'd have to think that Google has more going on then just a small speed increase here. Googles Matt Cutts is being his usual ninja-self by releasing a lot of seemingly vague news regarding the new engine.
According to Cutts "The Caffeine update isn’t about making some UI changes here or there. Currently, even power users won’t notice much of a difference at all. This update is primarily under the hood: we’re rewriting the foundation of some of our infrastructure. But some of the search results do change, so we wanted to open up a preview so that power searchers and web developers could give us feedback". -end
To leak a workable test site to the public without any noticeable changes smells a bit like misdirection to me. I'd have to think that Google is working on something far deeper than they'd lead anyone to believe. We'll see how prophetic this turns out to be in the next few months. |
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TAIO Insurance Solutions is now on InsuranceAgency.net |
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 TAIO Insurance Solutions Inc. is a leading full service insurance broker located in Westlake Villiage, California. They offer competitively priced auto, homeowners, commercial and umbrella insurance packages from more than 30 of the highest rated insurance carriers according to the A.M. Best Company. (Founded in 1899, A.M. Best Company is a full-service credit rating organization dedicated to serving the financial services industries, including the banking and insurance sectors.) TAIO Insurance Solutions Inc has served the insurance needs of individuals and businesses in California and Arizona since 1989.
Scope of Service: Search engine optimization, PPC,PPI and pay to place advertising, GEO targeted local search, social marketing, website analytics, link building, content development and site management. Developing multiple satellite sites to broaden market share and visibility. Locate and negotiate for a new organic rich domain name based on the keyword "insurance".
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Just some observations about getting listed or becoming an editor on DMOZ
First, I've had a couple sites listed in DMOZ, however these were back when DMOZ had about 1m links and a few thousand editors. Back when the workload wasn't used as an excuse for poor administration and a reason to ignore submissions and link pruning.
I'm not trying to ruffle anyones feathers. There are quite a few editors who really do care about DMOZ (still)...
Now for my observations:
4,615,773 sites - 83,393 editors - over 590,000 categories
That is about 55 links per editor. Throw out 90% of the editors as being the "who cares" types and we are left with about 600 links to manage per editor. I've run quite a few directories and managed one that had 8000 categories and 125,000 links with zero help. To say that 8,300 good editors cant manage 4.6m links is absurd.
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What can SEOME do for you? |
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"Search Engine Optimization Made Easy" isn't simply a catch phrase, it's an ideal, a way of doing business that many of the other optimization and marketing companies overlook. Think of us as a gas station, for your website, that offers both full and self service. You can use the information and techniques that are provided on this site to do the basic optimization and marketing tasks yourself. On the other hand, if you'd like to have the work done for you, we will be happy to provide a cost effective solution. Getting your website to the top pages for searched keywords is our primary goal and all of our practices are completely organic and search engine friendly.
Does this way of offering a marketing strategy sound foreign to you?
Many professional services will give you just enough information to confuse whatever ideas you might already have with regards to your optimization and marketing endeavors. It's never made clear just what is involved in the optimization and marketing process. This is a sales tactic rather than a short coming. If the SEO/SEM processes can be made to seem technically out of reach or far too time consuming, the odds are quite good they'll secure a contract for services from you along with a hefty bankroll.
At SEOME, we prefer to offer you fundamentally sound marketing and optimization techniques completely free of charge.
Having complete control over the entire process of optimizing and marketing empowers you to make better decisions on which areas you'll need help to achieve your goals. By offering you the option to self-SEO you'll be able to apply the basic processes of website development from the perspective of search. If you read everything we publish you'll know exactly how to use these principles to optimize and market your website, and you'll see positive results quickly.
Of course, we would encourage you to contact us about starting a service partnership. IC Online Services specializes in optimizing and marketing your website with the sole purpose of lowering the cost of doing business. Our primary concern is getting you the best results with the lowest out of pocket expense as possible.
What could be easier?
You now have the ability to optimize and market your website properly. You can do it all on your own or choose just those areas of the process that you'd like to get help with.
Enjoy the site and please don't hesitate to send us a message if you have any questions. |
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ICO partners with bands and artists in the UK |
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IC Online Services has partnered with BandsandArtists.co.uk to create a free service that lets independant artists, bands, music producers, managers and labels self promote their music. The new sites offer streaming video and audio, artists music vaults and a place to sell beats and tracks. Artists can create custom pages and have their own blog, schedule, interviews and can add their music to the sites radio channels. Tracks can be set to listen only, download or a combination of the two. Downloads can be sold from the artists store or held in the vault until they choose to release the tracks.
The services are only a few days into the development phase and are based on the Jamroom artists cms with heavilly modded oinkba layouts. Artists and listeners can create free premium accounts to comment, post about, follow, listen to the music and watch videos from their favorite independant bands and artists. We are inviting everyone who loves music or is involved in the indie music scene to create their accounts and start getting some free promotion and exposure. All we ask is for some help getting the bugs out of the systems. We are here to help promote and open to suggestions about the services you'd like to see added as we move forward.
Artists from the US and Canada should go to http://www.vxpr.com and if you are in the UK/Europe, you'll find your own free space waiting for you at http://www.bandsandartists.co.uk
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SEOMe has thrown our hat into the sulumits retsambew SEO contest (04-30-09)
What is sulumits retsambew you ask?
sulumits retsambew:
(Sul-ah-mits retz-am-bow) An antigram of "Webmaster Stimulus". Sulumits retsambew is the targeted keyword term in the latest SEO contest being promoted by Will Spencer and company over at NetBuilders.org "The Better SEO forum" (cheap plug for a good site).
NO this isn't an anagram.
An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place. Someone who creates anagrams is called an anagrammatist. The original word or phrase is known as the subject of the anagram.
NO this isn't a palindrome.
A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). EXP "Was it a rat I saw?" <<read it backwards.
An antigram is a word or words that are presented backwards from the original word or phrase without changing the order of the letters or puncuation. EXP "wiki doog a" would be "a good wiki", "webmaster stimulus" is "sulumits restambew" and so on...
About this seo contest:
The gist of the sulumits retsambew SEO contest is (as with most SEO contests), to get a page to the top of the SERP for the term that is targeted, in this case "sulumits retsambew", for natural search results, not quoted. Whoever can land on the top 3 positions of the 1st page in Google for sulumits retsambew, wins! Because results may vary from server to server on Googles search network, Will has made it clear that he will use results from various Google servers to be fair about the whole thing.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 26 August 2009 10:07 )
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While going through my ritualistic daily routine of searching out and exploring information with regards to PPC (Pay Per Click) and other advertising streams, I came across an interesting page that (to me) seemed to exemplify the problem of technical dilution, weighed down with graduate level geek-speak with regards to optimizing returns on invested dollars (ROI). I felt the urge to try and convert this into a more simple terminology that a vast userbase could understand. Remember this is just my interpretation and I'm not defining it as a pure truth in translation.
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