Todays date: Mar 29 2024
Last blog entry: 7/27/2004
Last Article entry: 12/4/2003

  T's search engine optimization blog, or some will say, diary of a ........ artist, haw ha ha!

"T's search engine optimization Blog and SEO News"

"Opinions are like asseholes, everyone has one, take from mine what you want and forget the rest of it!"
Da' Tmeister, Editor
 
 

Blog Posts Archives
h_line2.gif (398 bytes)

Detlev, great insight in your article! Nice to see you are doing more writing! In regards to Overture the stock fall could be for a few reasons from what I've picked up consulting with a few analysts. Number one and a big concern to them is the fact Yahoo! and MSN make up about 60% of OV revenue. All I talk to ask me what the chances are of either not renewing/canceling their contract. IMHO, the Yahoo! deal with Inktomi causes them great concern.

There was also the feeling that possibly the Google product providing both algorhythmic search and ads in a single service was what large sites like ESPN were going to be looking for. ESPN just did a deal for blended algosearch and PPC using an Inktomi and Overture solution.

These are the only game in town in N. America and they have to compete! IMHO, they either had to continue working with Inktomi or buy another search service. FAST seems the best after Google and Inktomi.

Yahoo! buying Inktomi was major! The recent consolidation of search services means if they loose one of Yahoo! or MSN they are in big trouble there is really no major players left to pick up the slack. Either Google, Inktomi/Yahoo!? have everything sewed up for awhile. They had to demonstrate that they were doing something about this. Even if it was buying a couple that combined probably aren't providing half the traffic of any of the big three.

AltaVista IMHO, was just OV buying a big billboard or real estate. They wanted the still fairly substantial traffic (not major but). The writing, as we all know has been on the wall for them for some time.

Buying them insured that another competitor didn't grab that real estate. It will also help to lessen some of the blow if either Yahoo! or MSN bolt, which IMHO, will happen.

AV text indexing technology is not that good, it is "old guard" and only younger new services have the built in ability to eliminate listings of questionable value. It is obvious to me AV is simply crap in, crap out. You don't have to have a lot on the ball to see the obvious ad skew in the rankings. They protest this vehemently but the results don't seem to reflect it. Their protests seem to be spin.

PPC has been clearly driving the recent profit growth of all the engines using it. So, if say someone like Yahoo! says" we're killing and only getting X%" let's do this ourselves and get 100%. Bam, they just more than doubled their revenue from that service. Yahoo! could have also coveted not only the technology of Inktomi but an experienced sales staff and manager of PFP and Inclusion. This didn't get a lot of play in what I read but Inktomi is head and shoulders above all the rest in selling and managing these programs. I know if I was thinking about getting into the Inclusion, PFP, or PPC business and had an opportunity to buy the best at a good price it wouldn't be a tough decision.

In the end all of the moves lately are all about further monetization of results. There is a real feeling IMHO, that if the FTC shoe drops PPC CTR will plummet when users **really** know what is an ad and what is a result. Inclusion will be the only way to **obscure** this further monetization if the FTC or Nader decide to step in. Hence, the rush by OV to buy up these services at rock bottom prices when they are flush with cash. Back home we call that hedging your bet.

Hedging your bets is what we all should be doing. When that PPC revenue is lower how do you think they will make it up? Inclusion, look around there are only a few free places to submit and the list is shrinking not growing. I will be very surprised if AlltheWeb and AV will continue free listings when, OV, which for all intents and purposes is an ad agency, takes over. Free is not in their vocabulary! Fact is, demand drives prices, demand for Inclusion goes up and............ Inclu$ion prices go up!

 

posts on search engine optimization and submission
SEO Hangouts:

SEO Training Dojo w/theGypsy

 For less than the cost of a cuppa' coffee a day?
SEOdojo SEO Training As a certification and training committee member for SeoPros I found theGypsy's SEO Dojo has the best SEO patent library available. Not to mention the incredible peeps to learn with and from! 
h_line1.gif (303 bytes)
Social Media Hangouts:


h_line1.gif (303 bytes)
T's Quote:

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve."

Napolean Hill ~ Think and Grow Rich

v_line.gif v_line.gif

DoJoPeeps to Checkout!
Steve Gerenscer AKA Feydakin
Animal Charms
h_line1.gif (303 bytes)
Webmaster T's New SEO recommendation service. Search engine marketing, campaign monitoring and certification. Rating real results from active campaigns and services. See your site like a search engine does!

h_line1.gif
search engine optimization articles
  Looking for something you've read in the past in the Blog area or T's qued for publishing. Check the search engine Webmaster T's optimization and SEO Blog archives. If it was on the cover you'll find it there.
h_line1.gif (303 bytes)
  
  archives
Archived search engine placement and web development articles.

T's World Logo,  cover and awards graphics 
by and Copyright © 1997-2009  Markus Gemstad 
Copyright © 1997-2009 International Website Builders all rights reserved.