Google pulled in $5.37 billion in revenues last quarter, and $1.25 billion in net profits (nearly ten times what Yahoo made last quarter). Yet behind the consistently amazing financial performance, a few chinks are beginning to appear in Google’s armor. The biggest one may be the increasing gap between its organic revenue growth [...]
Archive for August 2008
Stop Stealing!?!? Affordable, High Quality Photos are Within Your Reach
Are you a designer and wonder where to find high quality images? Are you using unlicensed pictures and images because you don’t know what else to do? High quality images aren’t nearly as expensive as you think! Some very talented photographers are leaving mainstream outlets and submitting their photographs to sites that sell directly to [...]
Hey Google Can We Get a Clear Cloaking and First Click Free Explanation
One of the more common questions I get from people is how do I show my paid context to search engines, but not to non-paying/membership customers, and staying within search engine guidelines. The answer always comes dangerously close or steps over the cloaking line.
Despite what search engines will say, even on panels at SMX shows, [...]
Why SEO Should Never Be An Afterthought
SEO should never be an afterthought, there are essentially two ways to rank (1) as a result of clear planning with deliberate intent and a master game plan developed over time or (2) hey is it too late to fix this site and eek some performance out of it?
How many times have you ever thought, [...]
Yahoo And Google Now Let You Opt Out Of Ads (Because It’s Better Than Letting You Opt In)
All of a sudden, Yahoo and Google want to make it easy for you to opt out of their ad targeting on both their sites and across the Web. Yahoo announced a new one-click opt-out policy today, and Google made it possible to opt out of both Google and Doubleclick ad targeting with one [...]
New Manager on the Block!
With information overflowing from the million sites on the net, finding exactly what one is looking for, is nothing short of finding a pin from a haystack. Say, you have a website or intranet and it has spread its branches over time. While it is very useful, much of the content is outdated, updating the [...]
