Is Yahoo! nuts? They want a 351% increase for domains!
Might as well say “This is Yahoo calling…and we need your money.”
I just got an email from Yahoo! Domains (where I registered madeindenver.com) that says the following:
Important note: Beginning on July 1, 2008, Yahoo!’s annual domain renewal price increases to $34.95 per year.
Yahoo is going to charge $34.95 a year for domains, up from $9.95. This is unbelievable. I know they’re trying to bolster their bottom line so Microsoft and Icahn stay away, but is charging 351% more than before, and 500% markup the way to do it? Read more&hellip
Much search engine optimization revolves around guessing how users will search to find your site. When you’re optimizing for organic (non-paid) search results, you may be surprised to find out how much word order impacts the search ranking.
Optimize your website for organic search with varying keyword order
If you search the major search engines, you will find that the order of your keywords makes a huge difference on where your website ranks. Read more&hellip
When I think SEO, I think of Google. Why? Is it because Google’s PageRank system determines better websites? Is it because Google’s advertising options are superior? It’s as simple as this: Google gets better results than any other search engine.
The major search engines often don’t agree
Optimizing websites for search is frustrating sometimes. The biggest search engines are Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. The frustrating part of optimization is the variation between the search engines. The variations in ranking can be huge. I will use Katz Web Design’s ranking information to show some examples: Read more&hellip
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