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Yahoo has been busy as a beaver (as we Canadians would say) with a slew of new announcements yesterday. The most interesting one is the launch of Yahoo! Circular, an online retail marketing program modeled after newspaper circulars/inserts. This activity blitz comes just as Yahoo’s annual shareholder meeting was set for August 1 where Corporate Read more about Yahoo! Busy Beaver[…]
Here is another screen capture (click to enlarge) of some of the local competition, while I won’t comment on their pricing I can say that their website is very 90’s – and super light on information but they do rank well for some competitive terms so maybe they are worth every cent? One thing I know for Read more about More SEO Pricing[…]
For those of you following my progress you would know that I have been doing SEO for about 3 years but only for in-house clients and my own websites. I recently decided to take on a few new projects, hence the development of this site. www.createdigitalgrowth.com first went live on May 9, 2008, just over a week Read more about Quick SEO results[…]
Not to say Ask.com is anything like a pimple but we are talking relative size here. The question is, can a search engine that is 1/17th the size of the industry leader run a profitable business model? The answer is, YES! Forbes is reporting that Jim Safka, head of Ask.com announced his company will acquire Lexico, the owner Read more about Ask.com wants to be more than a pimple on Googles’ butt[…]
I have been a critic of Google’s posturing and seemingly indiscriminate awarding of penalties for a long-time. There has been a ton of speculation around the industry of -20, -50, -60, -100 penalties (for those laypersons this is a SERP penalty that subtracts ranks you should be awarded, so if you normally should rank number Read more about Proof of the -60 Google Penalty?[…]
I am always keeping an eye out for what my competition charges (click to enlarge the image) and here is the price page for an SEO in New York. I won’t comment on whether his prices are too high because I don’t know a lot about the quality of his work. One thing I do know Read more about The Price of SEO[…]
The usual smoke-and-mirrors we are used to from Google were put away for a brief period this week during an interview Udi Manber, VP of Google Search had with Popular Mechanics. Manber mentioned that Google had tweaked its’ algorithm 450 times last year. This explains some of the really weird disappearances and resurrections of many Read more about Interesting Insight from Google VP[…]
Our original website, www.OnlineBusinessStartups.com concentrated on web design, advertising and promotion solutions. We began providing SEO services to our in-house clients over three years ago, since then our company has matured to the point where we are now able to accomodate additional SEO service clients. Over the next few months we will be able to take on a limited number of new SEO clients. Read more about Welcome to our SEO services website[…]