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Bing and Yahoo to merge

Bing and Yahoo are to announce a merger deal today, which will see Bing used to power Yahoo searches in the future. The deal has been discussed for some time as a new strategy to overtake Google, which presently holds a 63% share of worldwide searches.

The deal should see Yahoo as a new platform to deliver on Microsoft’s new search technology, such as delivering highly-targeted ads, following its currently unsuccessful launch of the Bing brand.

Landing Page Confusion

I am going back to the very basics of SEO, as this is where some people fall down, making them unable to explore deeper into the discipline. To understand SEO, you have to understand that an SEO campaign has to have a strategy behind which page will focus on which search terms.

Pinging Your Sitemap To Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and even Ask

There are plenty of sites that have these links but thought it would be a good idea to post here. This is pinging your sitemap to the search engines. You have gone through the whole kafuffle (first time I have ever wrote kafuffle in my life) of creating a sitemap so it’s a shame not to tell the search engines about it. The following therefore are links that allow you to ping your sitemap to Google, Yahoo!, MSN and even Ask:

Optimisation Tips to Help Get You Started

In the current economic climate cutting down any costs is pivotal if you are to succeed. SEO is fast becoming first protocol for business and rightly so as more and more business have switched to being online rather than the old bricks and mortar. Sadly it is no good being online if you are not getting the right amount of traffic to your site and this is where SEO comes in. As SEOs we get paid to get your site listed. However we know all too well that a lot of businesses now do not have the money to spend on SEO especially if you are a small or start-up business. The following therefore are some techniques you can look to implement which can help you get some good SERPs