These days are good days for SEO professionals as SEO has again become one the hottest internet marketing topics. Companies from various industries are looking to improve their search engine visibility by implementing best SEO practices. Implementing title tags, meta tags, and alt tags is a must these days. Sure, some of these techniques are rather dated and do not offer much benefit but not implementing them is a bonehead move. Unfortunately, executives, who by the way don’t know anything about anything, think of SEO as a magic pill. I have personally... 

The thing about Google is that they constantly test so many features that sometimes it’s difficult to find them all. The one that I just noticed today was the search box that you get when you search for a few plural terms such as Banks or Restaurants. You all probably know that Google showed search boxes for terms such as Amazon a few weeks back, but I wasn’t aware that they did that for plural terms. It sort of shows that Google is thinking more about consumer behavior to enrich the user experience for its audience. Someone who is searching for... 

I am sure you all have heard this piece of advice about how having keywords in your domain will help you get ranked better on Google. That is partially true, but it really all comes down to branding and what you do with your domain. It is true that if you run a credit card site, creditcards.com fits your business better than a flyingbird. But there is a chance that Flyingbird could get ranked higher than creditcards.com if they get the SEO right. Now, I am not suggesting that registering strange domains can actually help your SEO. What I am suggesting is... 

Now I can’t tell that for sure as Google needs to either verify or deny this, but I have not been able to get to Google.com for a few minutes now. If that doesn’t mean servers are down, I don’t know what is. It could be a maintenance that is going on @ Google, but I have never been seen Google go down this long. When I tried Google, I received a message from Comcast as following: Registration Currently Unavailable We are currently upgrading our systems. As a result, the feature you have requested is temporarily unavailable.... 

After Microsoft failed to woo Yahoo! folks in order to acquire and integrate Yahoo! technologies with those of  their own, some have claimed that Steve will invest the money he had set aside for Yahoo! in search technologies that could allow Microsoft to challenge and dethrone Google as the leader of the pack. Now that is all exciting but who really believes that Microsoft will actually do that. Will Microsoft buy a few small companies to fill some small gaps? Absolutely. But at this point, I think even Microsoft doesn’t believe that they have a chance...