Archive for November, 2004

MSN Offers New Tools

posted by Pole Position Marketing Team on Sunday, November 21st, 2004

Hey, you’re new. We like you already! You obviously have great taste! If you like what you read here you’ll probably want to subscribe to our RSS feed (or the audio RSS feed). Stick around and be sure to speak up and post a comment or two! The MSN Sandbox offers previews of MSN’s current […]

MSN Restricts Browsing

posted by Pole Position Marketing Team on Saturday, November 20th, 2004

I recently attempted to access the MSN submit a site feature and received the following message:
Please Upgrade Your Browser
You are using: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
To view this site you must use:
Microsoft® Internet Explorer or Netscape® Navigator 4.0 or higher
Click here to find the latest free browser from Microsoft

MSN and Search Marketshare

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

With MSN’s Beta Search now rolled out, there are new rounds of speculation about how much of the overall search market share MSN will take from Google. MSN plans a full rollout their new search sometime this year or early next year. With that, it is assumed, that MSN will also launch an aggressive media […]

Great use for Google Local Search

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Thursday, November 11th, 2004

I found an extremely excellent use for local search. I’m discussing Google primarily, here, as that is the only local search I’ve used, but here is what I found. Type in a business name (not the business category), make sure the city and state are filled in and hit search. When the results come open […]

Googe Index Doubles

posted by Pole Position Marketing Team on Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

Google is now reporting an index size of Eight Billion (8,000,000,000) documents. The announcement has been posted on their Home Page as well as their Blog

MSN Rolls Out New Search Tomorrow!!!

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

The forums are a buzz about the news that MSN will be rolling out its new search tomorrow. Its not clear if this will be a beta version of their new search technology for a full rollout after several tech previews have been available. Personally I am hoping for a full rollout from their main […]

Local SEO or Shopping SEO the Next “Big Thing”?

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

Local search is being touted by many as the next big SEO market. This may or may not be true, as only time will tell, but I’m not betting any money on it. My hesitation to jump on the bandwagon declaring local search to be the next primary focus of SEO is because local search […]

Submitting to Search Engines

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, November 8th, 2004

I’m constantly amazed at the number of people who still talk about submitting to search engines. Heck, we have not submitted sites to search engines in over two years, but to many of the uninformed (no offense if that is you) search engine submission is still believed to be a crucial part of optimization. Its […]

Setting Pricing for SEO Services.

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Friday, November 5th, 2004

Pricing for SEO services are like opinions, everywhere you go everybody has a different one. One of the most difficult things to do when searching for an SEO company is to compare prices and services with each other, because they are so vastly different from one SEO to the next.
For me, setting the pricing […]

Yahoo Directory De-Valued at Yahoo!.

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

Yahoo! just rolled out a new home page. Yahoo! began as a web directory. If you look at an early version of their home page (March, 1997) you will see that the directory links were prominent with an option to search the sites listed in the directory. Over the years, Yahoo! began building their portal, […]