Chris Boggs over at SEW wrote a great peice on the Top 5 Ways to increase SERPs with non-SEO methods. It’s a good write up and I wanted to share it with all my readers.
SEO involves getting lots of moving pieces coming together in the right way to form a perfect storm of sorts, which equates to better search results for a Web site. Beyond SEO best practices, I polled our SEO team to come up with the top five “non-SEO” tasks that can help support the SEO process and get Web sites consistently ranked for relevant desired terms within the results.
Some of the ways he mentions include:
1. Enhance Web Site Usability
2. Work with Other Marketing Teams
3. Incorporate Traditional PR Efforts into the SEO Plan
4. Monitoring and Leveraging Communities
5. Keep Content Fresh by Updating it Regularly
Microsoft has decided to walk away from its bid for Yahoo NSDQ: YHOO. Said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in a statement: “We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo and the market as a whole. Our goal in pursuing a combination with Yahoo was to provide greater choice and innovation in the marketplace and create real value for our respective stockholders and employees. Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5 billion, Yahoo has not moved toward accepting our offer. After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal.”
I wonder if Yahoo will plummet or surge in after hours trading. Ballmer imho will try pull a ‘Larry Ellison’ and swoop in eventually buying Yahoo at a steep discount - similar to the Oracle/BEA buyout debacle…remember there is around $10+ of ‘buyout’ inflation value baked into their current pricing.
So here we are, three weeks later, and there’s still no agreement. Microsoft hasn’t gone hostile — yet. Its stock has continued to drift, which could make the acquisition more expensive; and Yahoo has given no indication that it’s warming up to a deal.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has dropped several not-so-subtle hints that it could walk away from Yahoo entirely — yesterday CFO Chris Liddell said in an internal interview that it was a distinct possibility. And on the company’s earnings call on Thursday, Liddell said speed was of the essence but the process has been “anything but speedy.”
Then again, it’s not even noon in California, so Microsoft still has plenty of time to attack.
Their Press Release is pretty thorough - found here. I also like the iTunes like Album playlist navigation similarity - very slick. This actually is reminiscent to the A9 or Snap! visual page interfaces attempts from years ago.
I hope people catch on, or they get purchased quickly. This looks like a fantastic new interface for Search to evolve into.
Keep thinking positive thoughts and sending out positive vibes about us winning the $270 MILLION JACKPOT tonight! I know we will all use our winnings to make the lives of those close to us and around us even better - as well as do some nice things for ourselves!
Our singular odds are 1/175,711,536 this has theoretically reduced our odds to 1/161,203 - much better…
I’ve never participated in a Lottery Pool of this magnitude, so it’s pretty exciting - “We will Win!”
This video made me sick, Attorney General Mukasey states he will not enforce Contempt of Congress orders on anyone inthe Executive Branch. Seriously People WAKE UP - We are falling into a Dictatorship within the Executive Branch. This has never occurred in our history!!!
Thank you Congressman Wexler! Bush, Cheney and Condi need to be sent to jail. They misled this country and cost us thousands of lives and what will in the end be several trillion dollars.
ZEITGEIST, The Movie - Official Release - Full Production (including the ‘Overture’)
Zeitgeist, produced by Peter Joseph, was created as a nonprofit filmiac expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are.
The information in Zeitgeist was established over a year long period of research and the current Source page on this site lists the basic sources used / referenced and the Interactive Transcript includes exact source references and further information.
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