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Icahn, Yahoo Settle Dispute, Carl Joins the Board
Finally, Yahoo’s woes regarding the proxy battle that Carl Icahn has waged against the Yahoo Board has ended. Both parties have agreed to settle the...
Yahoo Shareholder To Propose an Alternative Board
The Yahoo Plan B group, composed of 150 Yahoo stockholders with their 3.2 million Yahoo shares, are set to ask the current Yahoo leadership to...
As Yahoo Attacks Icahn, Legg Mason Vows to Support the Current Board
As Yahoo continues to urge its shareholders to support them in the coming annual meeting and to prevent Icahn from influencing their decision, here comes...
One Product – Two Same-Language Countries?
This is another geo-targeting case study I decided to discuss at SEJ. Say you have one product and you plan to target two same-language countries:...
Google’s Share of Search Ads and Earnings for Q2 Both Up
A lot of numbers relating to earnings, revenues and search advertising have just went out for all of us to consume. First we have this...
Yahoo Will Sell to Microsoft for $33 Per Share
Yahoo’s Jerry Yang has sent out an email to Yahoo shareholders disclosing that the company is willing to sell itself to Microsoft for $33 per...
Yahoo Urges Shareholders to Support the Current Board
Less than half a month to go before the dreaded Yahoo Shareholders’ meeting, Yahoo’s Jerry Yang and Roy Bostock sent a joint letter to the...
Microsoft and Yahoo Eye Time Warner’s AOL
We interrupt our regular coverage of the ongoing Yahoo-Microsoft tussle to focus on what could possibly be both companies’ fall back options. It seems like...
Optimizing For Hyphenated Words – What to Expect?
Like plural/ singular word forms, hyphenated terms also often pose a difficult SEO issues for us to solve – which version to use and optimize...
Google Gets a Lawsuit for Selling Ads on Parked Domains
Legal Attorney Hal K. Levitte filed a complaint before the U.S. District Court in San Jose Calif. against Google for allegedly serving his AdWords’ ads...
Outdated but Powerful Pages : How to Handle Them?
An interesting discussion over at SearchEngineWatch Forum covers the way(s) of treating out-of-stock product pages that cannot be of any use to a visitor but...
Microsoft Worries About the Google-Yahoo Search Ad Deal
Finally Microsoft issued a formal statement regarding the Google-Yahoo search ad deal. Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp. senior vice president and general counsel, questioned the legality...
Microsoft: “Our Proposal Did Not Include a Change of Yahoo Governance”
Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that their proposal last Friday, which Yahoo rejected on Saturday, did not include a change of Yahoo governance. Interestingly, Microsoft...
Google Now Displays Code Search Results as Search Snippets
Sometime in 2005, Google has launched the Code Search, a vertical search property that indexes and parses published source code on the web giving users...
Save 20% on Best of the Web Ads & Listings
Best of the Web is running a July offer which is giving its advertisers and online marketers 20% off of all BOTW.org advertisements, with the...
The GPhone May Not be Such a Myth Afterall
Last year tech sites were abuzz with rumors of the mythical Gphone – a mobile phone created by Google. Nothing came of it, and Google...
Keyword Research, Link Building & Linking Diversity
Excellent article by Dave Harry on the nuances of link building and keeping a diverse yet strategic keyword expansion plan in focus from the ground...
Yahoo Quickly Rejects New Microsoft-Icahn Search Acquisition Offer
It didn’t take that long for the Yahoo Board to renounce the new proposal made by Microsoft and Carl Icahn to acquire Yahoo’s search business...
NewsDay.com Penalized for Selling Crap Links
If you’re going to openly sell crap links on the footer of your site to Mesothelioma Lawyers, Ticket Scalpers, Personal Injury Law Firms and other...
Yahoo’s Jerry Yang Speaks on Icahn, Microsoft & Shareholders
“And then what will shareholders be left with? A weakened, Icahn-controlled Yahoo.” These were the last few words that Yahoo’s Jerry Yang said during his...
The SEO Adrenaline Junkie, Interview with Todd Malicoat
The SEO Expert Series continues with Todd Malicoat, perhaps best known to the SEO community as Stuntdubl. When the opportunity arose to discuss one advanced...
Explore Your Competitors’ Backlinks Beyond Yahoo Site Explorer
I have previously covered numerous ways to explore your competitors’ backlinks via various web-based and desktop tools and even with the help of FireFox Extensions....
Yahoo Wants You To Build your Own Search Service (BOSS)
It’s bold, it’s radical, it’s drastic and yet it can just be Google Custom Search Engine in a Yahoo environment. Yahoo has just launched the...
Icahn to Yahoo Shareholders: Time for Change, Replace Yang and Board
Mr. Icahn sure knows how to start the business week with a bang. Just when Jerry Yang was busy negotiating with Time Warner for a...
Google Adds Privacy Link to Home Page
Finally, Google has added a “privacy” link to its home page which directs users to Google’s Privacy Center which contains a link to Google’s Privacy...
Trickle Down Link-O-Nomics : Reaching the Messenger
Link building is a dynamic art form, which is constantly redefining itself and coming up with new techniques which may be more efficient, and more...
Yahoo Seeks New Merger Deal with AOL : Hopes to Avoid Microsoft
Now, that it’s barely a month to go before the Yahoo Shareholders meeting on August 1 when the fate of the current Yahoo board is...
Reciprocal Linking : SEO’s Longstanding Contradiction
Reciprocal linking is one of the most disputable SEO questions. The problem is that it is two-fold in nature. First, reciprocal links are natural being...
What’s Better : Long Copy Versus Several Related Short Copies?
Many webmasters come across one common dilemma: is it worth focusing efforts on one huge brilliant copy or is it wiser to split it into...
Hitwise Data Suggests that other Yahoo Properties are More Valuable than Search
Hitwise Intelligence’s VP for Research, Heather Hopkins made an interesting analysis of Yahoo! online properties based on some Hitwise data. Hopkins noted that of the...