Get Found Now Has A New Look
Filed under: Internet Presence Management, Search Engine Updates
We are very happy to announce that GetFoundNow.com has been upgraded to a new WordPress system. Now users can comment and ask questions on SEO, WordPress and server technologies like 301 redirects and mod rewrite. This blog will be focusing on Internet Marketing and industry news, while the main Get Found Now website will focus on SEO, WordPress and social network marketing. Feel free to leave comments and ask questions. We work very hard to answer all question promptly and fully. There is also RSS feeds and RSS-to-email newsletter so you can get our latest articles in your inbox.
Get Found Now has been working on social network marketing and SEO for years. We hope to share with our visitors our past and present successes and failures. The process of changing GetFoundNow.com from a static html website to a WordPress system was done while the site was live and took place behind the scenes. When we notified Google of the changes through their Webmaster Tools, it took Google less than a week to cache the new site. This is significant in that Google’s response time has quickened over the last couple of months. They are updating and caching sites at a remarkable rate, I have also noted that their Page Rank updates are happening on a page level almost simultaneously to their major index updates. This is also new behavior. My nest article will break down what Google has been saying publicly and how it will effect our placement. Visit our home page for more information on social network marketing. You might also want to take a look at our new SEO Training Portal SEO BY YOU. It will be up and fully functioning in a couple of weeks. Feel free to leave a comment!
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PRO Domain Extension Will Weed Out Spam And Rank High In Google
Filed under: Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Updates
If you have been in the Internet business as long as I have, then you know that domain extensions come and go without making a dent in the rankings of .com and .org websites. The .net extension has performed the best out of all the non dot com domains, but clearly not anywhere near a .com.
Enter the .pro domain extension. I haven’t seen as much talk about it as I expected even though it has been out for months. I suppose that professionals online don’t feel it will crack the dominance of traditional .com’s. The fact is .pro will not only rank high, but has the potential to take rankings away from the vaunted .com domain extension.
Why You Shouldn’t Ignore .PRO Domain Extensions
If you are a professional and have a brick and mortar business, you absolutely must grab your .pro domain. I was astonished to see how many important domains were still available. You must have a business license to keep your domain. If you don’t provide them with a business license along with the licensing entity within 44 days you will loose the domain and they won’t refund the money. Since .pro domains are not available through wholesalers like godaddy, you will have to use Network Solutions or another registrar. You can get a list of .pro registrars here.
Fell free to leave a comment if you have any questions about .pro domains. I have 2 sites that have just been released and will keep everyone updated on their progress. Once they are in the SERPS I will put up links to them.
RankNoodle.com
Just about everyone who is computer literate has heard of the 3 major search engines – Yahoo, Google and MSN. Now there is a new search engine called RankNoodle.com that has joined the ranks of the other big daddies on the block and is becoming increasingly popular.
One of the main reasons for RankNoodle.com’s rise to the top is due to it’s time saving, easy on the eyes and organized interface. This search engine displays all web results for your search phase on one page, saving you from having to search different pages for images, news, related articles, web pages, and other related media.
RankNoodle.com is the New User Friendly Search Engine!
RankNoodle.com is a user friendly search engine that provides easily available search results, which is exactly what users want out of a search tool. It holds its own as a reliable online search tool, providing users with accurate and to the point information.
When testing the site, I did a search for online dating and was very pleased with the results. I did another search on cell phones for my daughter and was not diappointed.
As a professional writer and Internet blogger, I am constantly researching topics all day long. Therefore, I need a quick and reliable search tool to speed up my research time.
RankNoodle.com is a great search engine and I recommend it to other professionals who spend a lot of their time in search and research mode.
Once you check out RankNoodle.com for yourself and see how efficient, convenient and time saving it is, you will want to set it as your browser homepage.
Google Serps Are Watered Down
How is it that an ad-only site with no original content can get in the top 20 of Google SERP’s for keywords that are $10.00 a click? There are ad-only sites that have scraped content and Google AdSense ads that exceed the limit in their terms and conditions. Sites in the paid ad section that are both Google Ads publishers and advertisers are getting juice from Google. These sites have little or no PR and are less than 2 years old, yet they are placing above real websites from real companies.
We have all heard about the Google Sandbox effect. New sites are often kept in a limbo of SERP’s until they have been around for a year or so. If this is the case, how are ad-only sites getting into the top 20? Before I continue, lets look at that term: ad-only site. An ad-only site is a website or web page that has no unique content, it is serving either the maximum amount of ads allowed by Google, or in some cases is spoofing the AdSense spider using scripts that allow for more ad boxes.
Unfortunately there is nothing that we can do except to provide quality content that other sites will want to link to. Hopefully Google will do something about these weak sites that offer nothing to their visitors.
Microsoft Buying Yahoo For Real
Back in June of 07 I wrote a post Ugly Rumor Microsoft Buying Yahoo Again which talked about Yahoo being worth 80 billion. Microsoft just offered 44 billion for Yahoo which is quite a bit less than what the pundits said in May of 2007. One reason is that Yahoo’s stock has been steadily declining for the last three years. Even so, they still pull in 40 billion a year in paid advertising. My post and a subsequent conversation on Digg talked about why this is a smart move by Microsoft.
As a search engine optimization engineer, I am hoping that this deal goes down, since both Live and Yahoo have always been much easier for me to obtain organic placement than Google. Even though I have had a lot of success in Google, having a Yahoo-Live hybrid engine that can compete with Google in the search space, is a good thing for SEO people, especially SEO people like me that use social network marketing as a tool for organic placement.
In fact Yahoo is now putting video in their natural SERP’s. Live has already been doing a lot of “new media” indexing. The majority of experts are staying focused on the paid advertising aspect of this proposed deal. That is why Microsoft is making the offer. The ramifications of a Live-Yahoo merger on the organic side have yet to be discussed in any detail. My feeling is that this will be very good for SEO people and we should be crossing our fingers that the deal happens. Any competition to Google is a benefit for us. If they continue to own the search space, than they will continue to do whatever they want, like make war on paid links. With stiff competition, Google will have to think twice before pissing off their advertisers and Adsense publishers.
WebProNews didn’t feel that Microsoft would buy Yahoo, and unlike me, don’t feel that the deal would be worth it to Microsoft. It was actually their article on May 12th that prompted me to write mine. Even though I am not a big fan of Microsoft, and I feel that they have missed the boat on the Internet since day 1, this is a really good move for them. It gives them what Google wants so bad, to be a one stop portal that takes care of general Internet user’s needs.
These posts explain why all this is important:
- The Changing Face Of Google – Universal Search is explained in this article.
- Search Engine Optimization and Social Network Marketing - SEO and Web 2.0 Optimized social network marketing is covered in this post.
- RSS Real Simple Syndication Explained - RSS syndication is explained here.
- RSS Syndication Services FeedBurner – this post explained how FeedBurner works. It was written prior to Google’s purchase of FeedBurner which is talked about in my Web 2.0 Podcast. Also of note is the updated post about FeedBurner RSS to Email service.
I will stay on top of this story.