Archive for March, 2005

What’s the Google Sandbox?

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

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! Have you heard about the Google Sandbox or […]

Yahoo Messenger Hacked

posted by Pole Position Marketing Team on Monday, March 28th, 2005

Yahoo has releasead a statement claiming that users of Yahoo Messenger have received a flurry of increasingly sophisticated phishing attempts by hackers who are attempting to discover confidential account information by exploiting security flaws in the instant messaging service. The initial attack comes in the form of an unsolicited Instant Message that directs […]

New Site Format

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Saturday, March 26th, 2005

We’ve not been blogging for the past week or so because we were in the midst of transfering web servers. For about a week we were working off both servers for any site changes and held off on blogging until the transfer was complete.
You’ll also noticed that we have made some modifcatgions to the site […]

Yahoo! Directory Changes Listing Layout

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

For many years a listing in the Yahoo! Directory has been an essential element for generating web exposure. Arguably, the value of such a listing has declined in recent years, however Google still gives considerable value to a Yahoo! Directory link.
Recently Yahoo! changed they way you browse through their directory. In the past, all websites […]

Google’s Webmaster Guidelines: Quality Guidelines - Specific Recommendations

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

This is the final installment of our series on Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. As with most of the guidelines provided by Google, they are obvious, but only in that Google has made them standard procedure for anybody looking for quality optimization that won’t place their site in jeopardy of getting banned. Most of these guidelines are […]

Google Adds Local Business Center

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

Google has added a Local Business Center to allow any business to add their site to Google Local.
I’ve just added Pole Position Web. Its a very simple process that takes less than 2 minutes. If you are already listed in Google local you can update your contact information and addresses, or add it for the […]

AOL Changes TOS to Invade Privacy?

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, March 14th, 2005

EWeek.com has run an interesting story on AOL and some recent changes to their Terms of Service for the instant messenger users.
“Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any […]

Become.com Shows Promise

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Friday, March 11th, 2005

I’ve never paid much attention to new search engines, they seem to pop up all the time. Everyone claims to have the next big advancement in search technology, yada, yada, yada.
Suddenly, however I find myself paying attention to Become.com. I’ve heard about this engine before and there seems to be a buzz being created behind […]

Any Press is Good Press, part II

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

Apparently SEO, Inc. created quite a bit of a stir at the search engine strategies conference in New York.
I wasn’t there so I can’t really comment on the appropriateness, or lack thereof, of what they did, but it does seem to have created a buzz, which is what good marketing is all about.

Yahoo API

posted by Pole Position Marketing Team on Friday, March 4th, 2005

Yahoo has just introduced the Yahoo Search Developer Network, an online service offering developers access to Yahoo web services application programming interfaces (API’s) for the first time. The API’s are now freely available and are being promoted parallel to the existing Overture service API’s. Eckert Walther, head of Yahoo Search product management says […]

Google, Browsers, and Bookmarkes

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Friday, March 4th, 2005

There have been rumors on and off for some time now about the possibility of Google getting into the browser game. For years Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has had a virtual lock on the browser market. Recently Mozilla released FirFox which has since gained in popularity, not the second largest browser market at a whopping […]