2008 Mar 26
Date : 2008 03 26 search engine optimization 
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report: Microsoft To Up Bid For Yahoo To $34 Per ShareSilicon Alley Insider reacts to Wall Street Analyst Mark Mahaney's note that he anticipates Microsoft will raise its bid for Yahoo from $31 to $34 dollars per share. Barring an 11th hour alternative for Yahoo, this should move toward Yahoo's public position that the original Microsoft bid undervalued th read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingBelow is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report: Microsoft To Up Bid For Yahoo To $34 Per ShareSilicon Alley Insider reacts to Wall Street Analyst Mark Mahaney's note that he anticipates Microsoft will raise its bid for Yahoo from $31 to $34 dollars per share. Barring an 11th hour alternative for Yahoo, this should move toward Yahoo's public position that the original Microsoft bid undervalued th read more »
Date : 2008 03 26 search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Silicon Alley Insider reacts to Wall Street Analyst Mark Mahaney's note that he anticipates Microsoft will raise its bid for Yahoo from $31 to $34 dollars per share. Barring an 11th hour alternative for Yahoo, this should move toward Yahoo's public position that the original Microsoft bid undervalued the company. It also should please Yahoo's institutional shareholders and put more pressure on Yahoo management to negotiate in earnest with Microsoft -- if it happens. read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingSilicon Alley Insider reacts to Wall Street Analyst Mark Mahaney's note that he anticipates Microsoft will raise its bid for Yahoo from $31 to $34 dollars per share. Barring an 11th hour alternative for Yahoo, this should move toward Yahoo's public position that the original Microsoft bid undervalued the company. It also should please Yahoo's institutional shareholders and put more pressure on Yahoo management to negotiate in earnest with Microsoft -- if it happens. read more »
Date : 2008 03 26 search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Google founders: $1 salaries, $13B in stock from CNN Money reports Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with CEO Eric Schmidt, renewed their contracts again at a $1 per year salary, in 2007. You would think that with the falling stock price, the founders might want some extra cash? But the $8.5 billion drop in the value of the stock they each own did not change their minds on the salary. Don't worry, their stock holdings combined are currently valued at about $13 billion. In read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingGoogle founders: $1 salaries, $13B in stock from CNN Money reports Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with CEO Eric Schmidt, renewed their contracts again at a $1 per year salary, in 2007. You would think that with the falling stock price, the founders might want some extra cash? But the $8.5 billion drop in the value of the stock they each own did not change their minds on the salary. Don't worry, their stock holdings combined are currently valued at about $13 billion. In read more »
Date : 2008 03 26 search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
A few minutes ago, I posted screen captures of Google's new video ads in the real, live, and wild search results. These were announced back in February but only now appear to have really gone live. Searches that triggered this result for me included cell phone or smart phones or phones. It seems like BlackBerry and AT&T are testing the new AdWords video ads. Here is a screen capture: Click to continue reading... read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingA few minutes ago, I posted screen captures of Google's new video ads in the real, live, and wild search results. These were announced back in February but only now appear to have really gone live. Searches that triggered this result for me included cell phone or smart phones or phones. It seems like BlackBerry and AT&T are testing the new AdWords video ads. Here is a screen capture: Click to continue reading... read more »
Date : 2008 03 26 search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
If you're doing SEO on a site with thousands or tens of thousands of pages, it's likely you're working with some sort of content management system (CMS). However, CMS systems frequently cause problems with search engines. The great majority of the time these problems arise through ignorance on part of the CMS software developers. Basically, if the developers are not familiar with how search engines work, they may use coding practices that are not intended to be deceptive, but could be percei read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingIf you're doing SEO on a site with thousands or tens of thousands of pages, it's likely you're working with some sort of content management system (CMS). However, CMS systems frequently cause problems with search engines. The great majority of the time these problems arise through ignorance on part of the CMS software developers. Basically, if the developers are not familiar with how search engines work, they may use coding practices that are not intended to be deceptive, but could be percei read more »
Date : 2008 03 26 search engine optimization Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Let’s face it, life is about priorities. There’s never enough time, money, or resources for everything. Consequently, we must prioritize. Doing so forces us to choose between what we want and what we actually need. And marketers are anything but exempt from such choices. When times are good—and we have a bit more money to work with—we can be creative and try some new things. But when times get tough and we need to tighten our belts, we’re often forced to determine what read more »
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search MarketingLet’s face it, life is about priorities. There’s never enough time, money, or resources for everything. Consequently, we must prioritize. Doing so forces us to choose between what we want and what we actually need. And marketers are anything but exempt from such choices. When times are good—and we have a bit more money to work with—we can be creative and try some new things. But when times get tough and we need to tighten our belts, we’re often forced to determine what read more »