Well today is yahoo’s 15th birthday. It seems like the Internet has been around forever.
Actually it an infant at best. Because so much of our lives now revolves around electronic devices and the Internet,
we just assume that’s the way its been forever. I can only imagine what the Internet and instant communication
will be 15 years from now. The first words that I learned when given my first computer was “all you need to lnow is Yahoo”. It makes me laugh every time I think about it. Well have a great day and remember “Yahoo”.

Big news came a few days ago. The European Union and U.S. Justice Department finally
gave their okay on the Yahoo-Bing marketing agreement. It is now officially sanctioned.
This means that the joint relationship will now be the second biggest search marketer.
With Bing’s approximate 10% and Yahoo with about 15% of the search market they now will
command about 25% of the search market, while Google still retains about 70%. Bing will
command the search portion of their services, while Yahoo will market the large advertisers.
It know behooves people who just optimized for Google to now optimize to get the Bing-Yahoo
search market. As far as our company, we have been optimizing for all three from the beginning
of our business. You can see from our efforts that we rank high in all three search engines
for our targeted keywords. We can do the same for you. Give us a call or email us so you too
can be found at the top of the search engine results.

Google has activated its universal search mode which will not only bring in websites in the search results, but blogs, facebook pages, tweeter pages and news and other various information. It may ultimately cause organic search results to fall. I myself due not like the extraneous material, as I call it, in my search results. When I due a search I want to get the best websites that contain the information that I am seeking in my search. I know that this new process is here to stay,however, I feel in the long run this type of search will adversely affect the ability of “search” to bring the most relevant material to the visitor. many due not feel this way but we will have to wait to see how this develops.

I have been recently thinking about how the search engines rank websites and one of the clearest finding is that if you have an exact match domain name for the search string entered it is relatively easy to get a top seach engine ranking. That is not to say all exact matches will get top ranking, however, if the match is exact and the site is somewhat optimized it has a good chance of being high on the front page of the search engines. I will be running and experiment shortly on a domain name that I have that gets a lot of searches after the first of the year for income tax that will be due in April. If all goes well, I hope to have the number one ranking for the search term in all the major search engines. I will keep my readers abrest of the progress. have a great Holiday Season.

Google has announced that it will be bringing more kinds of varied results when one does a search. I believe in innovation but not in confusion. If I am doing a specific search for something, I want to get the most relevant results which Google , I must admit, does the best at this time. I also noticed Bing is adding different modes to their search. I guess that is what is meant by universal search. I think the best preference is to bring the most relevant information from the most relevant websites. I most often find myself having to do multiple searches in order to find what I am looking for. I believe most people find this to be true. Please keep it simple, most of us are stupid.

You are seeing more and more exact match domain names on the front pages of the search engines. I believe that the search engines feel these must be the most relevant sites for the exact search query. It only takes common sense
to see that the words that you enter for your search query should bring up the websites that have that query as their domain names. I believe that these websites will be the most valuable of all websites as time goes by. Most of these names have been scooped up by domain investors and only a relative few have been developed.

You are seeing more and more exact match domain names on the front pages of the search engines. I believe that the search engines feel these must be the most relevant sites for the exact search query. It takes only common sense to understand this. As I have said before, the generic search keyword phrases will be the most valuable in the future. It also appears that the .com form of the domain names gets preference over any other TLD’s. There are millions of long tail search keywords still available if one is enterprising enough to do the research. I myself have been adding to my portfolio almost daily. It takes time and patience to due the research but

Today I ddid a lot of work on my websites. I have been absent for awhile and have let my websites
slide in the search engine rankings. I am now optimizing to target Internet marketing in my hometown of Philadelphia.. I believe that my associates and I are well positioned to gain a significant part of the Philadelphia Internet marketing business. As the chief SEO expert I would like to improve our ranking for “Philadelphia Internet marketing”. As an extra, I believe Google will not give up much position as the leading Search portal. I have not liked some of the new additions to their search mode because it brings up stuff that I find irrelevant. We will wait and see as it progresses.

Today it was reported that Google now commands more than 71% of the search market while Yahoo has dropped to approximately 15% and Bing at about 9%. This only verifies that Google will be the number one search engine to target while the others are trying to make a dent in their market share. It will take years for Google’s competitors to get anywhere near their share of online search. it is our belief that if you do search engine optimization toward Google, you will have a good chance of ranking high in the other search engines.

I due research each morning for about two hours to keep up with the latest news about Internet marketing, Web design, pay per click advertising and social media marketing. This helps me to keep up with latest information coming online about these subjects. I due the research on all of the major search engines, believing that anything that is really important will be carries on these. I find more and more press releases and syndicated articles give their own spin about these important subjects. My own opinion is that 90% of the information is a reiteration of stuff that has already been written about thousands of times and the companies that put these things out are doing so to keep their name out in front of the public which in fact is not a bad idea. There is however, little to learn from the majority of the ramblings. Why bother if it’s so much is just excess? That 10% which is there also, is usually very useful and valuable if you are in the Internet marketing or SEO business. So I guess I’ll keep on reading each morning.