Happy Holidays! I’m going on a blogging holiday for the next few weeks. I’ll be travelling alot and won’t get a chance to blog much. I am working on a comprehensive white paper on the differences between Google, Yahoo & the impact of Google’s “Keyword Tax” (a neologism that I have just coined!). I should [...]
Archive for December, 2005
Predictions Revisited
Before I start making predictions for the New Year, we should revisit my old ones from this posting: Quick Acquisition Predictions for 2005 1. Google will look to buy Skype or similar. eBay got there first, Google released GoogleTalk (apparently G was in discussions with Skype) 2. Yahoo will look to buy Linkshare or similar [...]
Boldmouth launches…
Today Todd Tweedy launched his new company, BoldMouth, a Word of Mouth Marketing company. Here is the email that I received. **** Happy Monday! It’s official. Today I launched my new company — BoldMouth – http://www.boldmouth.com focused on delivering real word of mouth marketing relationships. And, in January I’ll be speaking at the Word of [...]
Alexa : Yahoo vs. Google
I did a quick comparison of Search.Yahoo.com & Google.com, and here are the results from that comparison. It’s obvious why Wall Street is backing Google on this one, but the race is far from over…
Google Landing Page Algorithm for PPC – Feedback
Based on some VERY prelimary research and testing: 1. If you have AdSense or any other form of advertising (Y!PN) on the landing page, you will get penalised in the Quality Score (QS). 2. Google checks the keyword density of the landing pages to ensure that the keywords match up with the keyword being bid [...]
Vinny Lingham is an International Award winning Entrepreneur & Search Engine Marketer. He is currently CEO of Free Website maker, Yola.