http://simplesem.com Search Engine Marketing and Optimization Solutions Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:47:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If Microsofts walkaway from the Yahoo deal is indeed a ploy to save $5 billion, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have proven himself pennywise and pound foolish. He was prepared to spend billions to finally make Microsoft a serious rival to Google. For a bit more, he may have destroyed ... http://simplesem.com/blog/2008/leaving-las-yahoo-microsofts-5-billion-mistake/ YOS: Rewiring Yahoo From The Inside Out Yahoo's relatively new CTO Ari Balogh expanded upon Yahoo's "open" initiatives in a keynote speech to the Web2.0 conference yesterday. Check it out!!! http://simplesem.com/blog/2008/yos-rewiring-yahoo-from-the-inside-out/ Basic SEO: What Search Engines Love This article will give you a beginner's guide to optimizing your site for search engines. It will focus specifically on what the search engines will be looking for when reading and indexing your site. These are things you will definitely want to utilize, or at ... http://simplesem.com/blog/2008/basic-seo-what-search-engines-love/ Google Thinks YOU Are a Black Hat SEO. Should You Trust Them? : SEO Book.com There is a great thread over on SEOmoz by Matthew Inman about how some Googlers consider any of his future attempted linkbaits and widgetbaits to be off topic spam, based on his aggressive misuse of widgets ... http://simplesem.com/blog/2008/google-thinks-you-are-a-black-hat-seo-should-you-trust-them-seo-bookcom/ Microsoft: Forget It On Paid Search Partnership, Google & Yahoo Any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal to acquire Yahoo! We will assess closely ... http://simplesem.com/blog/2008/microsoft-forget-it-on-paid-search-partnership-google-yahoo/ Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. SEORoundTable - Daily Search Forum Recap: March 31, 2008 http://simplesem.com/blog/2008/daily-search-forum-recap-march-31-2008/ Out of all the companies Google has acquired, the purchase that led to what we are going to talk about today was of a small little company called Android Inc. This company wasn’t even around two years before Google swept them up. Of course, this only added fuel to the ... http://simplesem.com/blog/2008/google-android-is-here/ I cannot believe the press this morning, but it's official Microsoft has made a hostile takeover bid for Yahoo! All of us in the SEM industry have heard this 'rumor' before, now it's for real! The announcement of Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo! didn't come as a total surprise, these ... http://simplesem.com/blog/2008/omfg-yahoosoft-is-born/ Hello SEO Experts, I know most of the SEO techniques, but one important factor as we all know is pagerank, and to have a higher pagerank we should get inBound links to our site. My question is, can we make our site appear in top Search Engine Results, without having any inBound ... http://simplesem.com/blog/2008/is-seo-possible-without-inbound-links/ Search engine optimization may become an expensive exercise in terms of money and time, if you as a SEO professional don't know your role and the expectation others have from you. Following are some suggestions that will help you to perform as an expert SEO professional. Before developing the content, research ... http://simplesem.com/blog/2007/some-important-do%e2%80%99s-for-seo%e2%80%99s/