How can one establish that it’s high time for him to have a rest or change the job (occupation) from SEO to any other? Keep an eye on your usual behavior and check the list of Top 21 Signs You need a Break from SEO. Even if you don’t find any characteristic of you’ll have fun reading for sure!

The following are my favorites from the Matt McGee list:

The S, E, and O keys on your keyboard are broken.

When your son tells you he wants to go play in the sandbox, you tell him it doesn’t exist.

or

When your son tells you he wants to go play in the sandbox, you fear you won’t see him again for eight months.

Latent Semantic Indexing makes sense to you.

You feel uncomfortable and out of place at a minor league baseball game because you don’t see a Text Link Ads advertisement on the outfield wall.

When your daughter brings home a new boyfriend to meet you, your first thought is to check his backlinks.

You just wrote an article titled “50 Amazing Things For Sale in My Garage This Weekend.” You think the local paper will publish it. Or at least link to it.

Growing strife inside Yahoo! has erupted into a sweeping management and organizational shakeup. CEO Terry Semel announced yesterday that the company will be reordered into three groups: one to focus on advertisers and publishers, another to focus on Yahoo!’s base of over 500 million users, and a third on technology and development.

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Search local auctions and classified listings (craigslist) and see where they are located on a map view. The site has some very cool features and is uber-web 2.0 - check out the watch list! Too cool.

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We have been trying to access Yelp for over an Hour, and every web page returns the same error page.
Uhhh ohhh….it’s gonna be a case of the Mundays tomorrow.

Google has just announced the new features implemented to Google Checkout service. They tend to make it easy and inexpensive to use by implementing easy coupon creation, email invoicing, simplified site integration and free processing up to the end of 2007.

At the same time a thread published at a WebmasterWorld rightfully accuses Google of not that small issue – not tracking affiliate links and sales generated by affiliates through Google Checkout.

Marcia claims the following in the forum thread:

Is everyone also aware that Google Checkout is washing affiliate links/tracking and not tracking those that are tracked with cookies, so that affiliates won’t get paid for sales made by customers they send to merchants using Google Checkout?

Well, I think Google Checkout team will review and (if confirmed) fix this issue as soon as possible. Though if to follow Checkout team representatives “Our [Google Checkout] team spends a lot of time talking with merchants to learn how Google Checkout can make selling online easier and more effective.” Maybe it’s time to talk to affiliates too?

Yahoo claims to conduct some essential changes to its structure and organization. According to the new management system the company will focus on 3 segments: audience, advertisers and publishers.

Yahoo chairman and chief executive officer believes that that is what will raise the value of Yahoo network for customers and let the company become a leader in the industry:

The Internet is continuing to grow and evolve at a rapid pace, and we’re reshaping Yahoo! to be a leader in this transformation, just as we did successfully five years ago. Our strategy capitalizes on big emerging trends and leverages our core strengths in search, media, communities and communications. We believe having a more customer-focused organization, supported by robust technology, will speed the development of leading-edge experiences for our most valuable audience segments.

As can be read in the first paragraphs of Yahoo press release under the title “Yahoo! Re-Aligns Organization to More Effectively Focus on Key Customer Segments and Capture Future Growth Opportunities”, the company aims to capture it’s 5-year-old popularity and market share and become a leader in the future:

Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced a reorganization of its structure and management to align its operations with its key customer segments — audiences, advertisers and publishers — and more effectively leverage Yahoo!’s significant strengths to capture future opportunities for growth.

That news could include significant layoffs or perhaps even the departure of Yahoo Chief Terry Semel, who has come under increased criticism for the company’s disappointing performance, according to the source. Is Dan or Sue leaving ? Who knows…

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