Indexing Web Pages & Discovery I wrote a comment to Ann at SearchEngineJournal.com about her article on ensuring Google is indexing pages of your site found at the link below http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-get-google-to-index-your-site-deeper/7566/#comment-1084520 Ann seems to think there is a scientific method to having pages indexed. This is fine but SEO is not really a rocket science form of advertising online. When I wrote one needs only to submit a valid xml sitemap to the... Read Full Story

Media ViperMade For Affiliates, By Affiliates. Pepperjam Network. One of my favorite things is seeing others succeed. I like seeing others who started an online business quite a few years ago truly succeed and grow, and it is great to see a business near your own have great success so its great to see another Pennsylvania based business being recognized. Another is sitting on the Small Business Council of the company that recoginizes business achievement Fortune Inc. Kris Jones President... Read Full Story

Media ViperIntroduction to Google Ranking -From GoogleBlog by Amit Singhal Everyone who is interested in SEO should be salivating at the mouth on this news as Amit is part of the search rankings team and is blogging how Google determines which pages deserve to be at the top of the organic SERPs. Google says they are going to give us the information as to how they determine good webpages for upper results rankings in the Google SERPs. Amit is a Google Fellow who has been working within the... Read Full Story

Google Affiliate Network I just received an E-mail from DoubleClick Performics that they are now Google Affiliate Network. This should really be interesting as many affiliate marketers will want to join Google now as another way to further earn revenues. Here is the E-mail We are pleased to introduce Google Affiliate Network . Effective Monday, June 30, 2008, DoubleClick Performics Affiliate will operate as Google Affiliate Network. The integration with Google’s brand is a reflection of... Read Full Story

Microsoft has reported that talks with Yahoo are over and there will be no formal merger. Microsoft wanted to buy only Yahoo Search in the latest round of discussions. The Yahoo Board of Directors felt that this was not the best deal for it’s shareholders and rejected the idea of selling off only the Search side of their business. There are also reports of Microsoft wanting to have regulators look at the Yahoo Google search deal that has been stuck, based on Anti Trust laws. Microsoft took... Read Full Story

Microsoft Issues Statement Regarding Yahoo! Microsoft on Sunday posted an announcement that it will continue to explore and pursue alternatives to improve & grow their online services and advertising business. Microsoft is has reached out to Yahoo! With what they consider an alternative that would involve deal with Yahoo. This would not be an acquisition of Yahoo but rather an agreement to incorporate parts of Yahoo into the Microsoft family. While it is not considering a new bid to... Read Full Story

Microsoft Drops Hostile Takeover Bid! Steve Ballmer & Microsoft have packed up their bags and gone and let the building or bidding!Microsofts boss yesterday decided to abandon his $42 billion takeover of Yahoo! After initially raising their offer by $5 billion Friday to $33 a share - and having it rejected again by the Internet icon’s CEO, Jerry Yang. Jerry denied the initial bid of $29.00 as well. “Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid, Yahoo! has not moved toward accepting... Read Full Story

Yahoo Becomes an Adsense Publisher For Two Weeks! Good morning readers - One of the first to have the announcement MediaViper.com notes that Yahoo said Wednesday, that they will begin a test running Google ads alongside Yahoo.com’s organic search results. The two-week trial run of Google’s AdSense for Search service will be limited to no more than 3% of Yahoo search queries, & will not include the company’s network of affiliate or premium publisher partners. The move leads to speculation that... Read Full Story

Amazon.com Intros Service Allowing Purchases Via Text Message Amazon.com has bridged the link (no seo pun intended) between Madison Avenue and Silicon Valley this week, sending a shot heard round the internet, that mobile transactions and marketing have arrived Amazon.com style on your cell phones. The new service, called TextBuyIt, lets Amazon.com customers search, find & buy products in less than one minute via text message through Amazon’s Web site. Using Amazon’s service simply requires... Read Full Story

Here are some keywords almost everyone should consider using as negative keyword terms especially anyone using broad match as a means of targeting visitors free craigslist directions ebay facebook free sample game games lyrics map maps myspace nude porn recipe samples sex sexy utube you tube As you can see this list is a marketer worst nightmare unless marketing items that would match well with the terms. As always you would want to maximize the ROI of all advertising expenditures and the... Read Full Story