Archive for October, 2008
Microsoft’s adCenter’s Fall Feature Release

Microsoft’s adCenter’s Fall Feature Release

Posted 29 October 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Pay-Per-Click | No Comments

I didn’t write about Microsoft sporting a new logo when I noticed a few days back because to me that’s not newsworthy. However, Microsoft, it appears, has undergone more than just a face lift sporting a new logo! On a side note, what an ugly logo. Not sure who designed this but [...]

How much traffic does Yahoo! send?

Posted 22 October 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Organic Traffic, Yahoo! | No Comments

There was an interesting poll and post over at Search Engine Roundtable about how much traffic Yahoo! sends. I’m confident SERoundTable see’s a lot more traffic than my sites do and it was interesting to see the breakdown. Less than 6% of traffic to their site came from Yahoo! in the past month.
So [...]

Yahoo! Layoffs Coming

Posted 21 October 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Yahoo! | No Comments

According to TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal, and various search engine blogs around the web, Yahoo! is planning to layoff between 1,000 – 3,000 employees.
Now as we know, recession coming or not, Yahoo! would have had to do some layoffs regardless due to it’s current state. But with the financial market what [...]

Duplicate Content Penalties

Posted 19 October 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Google | No Comments

First let me start out by drawing a line here and define duplicate content in the context of this post: Duplicate content is content which other websites have utilized scapers or other means to take information found elsewhere and place it on other websites. It is also (more importantly in my opinion) [...]

Google Reinclusion into the Index

Posted 18 October 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Google | No Comments

The folks at SERoundtable have done a nice chart on how long it takes to be reincluded within the index after a reinclusion request. This is based upon a poll SERoundtable took.
With only 72 individuals actually putting their input it, it’s not the most accurate poll but we can draw something out of it [...]

Hello Internets

Posted 17 October 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Site Related | No Comments

Well, it’s that time again…Mike is bored and it’s time for him to regail you with tails of his internet observations and random jibberish.
A little bit about me, I’m a 29 year old Search Engine Optimizer with over 10 years experience in web design and optimization. I have a 2 year old daughter by [...]