The unconvincing issue around the net is the booming domination by the leading players. Google and Microsoft, Microsoft and Google, are there really anyone else in command of the information highway? Truthfully while Yahoo was never a search engine superpower, it has been containing its own on the net, well that's at any rate until they came across a deal with Microsoft, that is correct, now Microsoft will be taking over Yahoo search Read the rest of this entry »

Now your company's website is compete. And it is on the internet for all the world to see. But the big question is, what do you do now? How do you get people to view it? How do you assure it is listed at the top of common search engine results when people query terms similar to your content? Read the rest of this entry »

When it comes to obtaining paid or bartered links, the focus is often on the anchor text. Immediately a webmaster will request their top keyword linked to the homepage. Or wisely a secondary keyword linked to its corresponding internal optimized landing page. This is industry standard, right? You want to rank higher for that keyword, so you get links with that keyword! Read the rest of this entry »

Since the link building process tends to be extremely time consuming and tedious, it is essential that you carefully consider your allotment of time, as well as resources, while you are taking on this task. By properly planning your time and resources you will have a greater success in regards to your link building. Another good idea is to become aware of the many link building misconceptions,as well as add some of your personal creativity, and link building can be a successful process for you. Read the rest of this entry »

When you are looking for a specific product or service, where is the first place you turn to find what you are looking for? For most people today the answer is no longer the phone book, it is an internet search engine. These search engines will find sites that have anything you are looking for, and rank the sites accordingly as they returns the list of the sites to you. Getting your business to the top of the list is the goal for any business with a web site. Read the rest of this entry »

Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page will be having less of a say in Google from now on as their current hold of 59% of the voting shares in the company have now been reduced to 48%, and the main question is what does this mean about the overall makeup of Google? Read the rest of this entry »

It seems as if Google has some new competition in the world of search engines. Have you noticed that whenever someone is talking computers either the name Google or Bing, seem to pop into the conversation? What many are now pondering is if Bing could be the beginning of the end for Google. Read the rest of this entry »

Maybe you have heard or maybe not about a search engine called Web Crawler. Don't know if you can really classify it as a search engine per say since essentially all it really does is combine search results from the larger search engines like Yahoo, Bing, Google, Ask and a few others in an attempt to bring you a combination of information that is better quality than you would obtain from using just one search engine at a time. Read the rest of this entry »

Although many feel that the decline in popularity of search engines is due to Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, it appears that there is more to it then that. In December of 2009, Yahoo was at 22% for customer searches; in January of 2010 it had decreased to 17%. Is this something that Bing can really be responsible for? Read the rest of this entry »

Online research is one of those things, sometimes you stumble across good solid information and sometimes just plain old gibberish. Well, online today there was an article that had some guy spouting gibberish about how social media sites were about as "helpful to business marketing as a hot pocket is nutritious". Read the rest of this entry »

The web has provided many new challenges to businesses. Doing business globally can be a great way to expand your business especially in slow economic times. After all, while one country is down another one is probably up. Read the rest of this entry »