Internet software stocks rise even after the overall market is looking down,

Internet software and services stocks mostly rose Friday morning, though the overall market traded lower after a report that the economy lost 80,000 jobs in March, the largest loss in five years.
Here is how key Internet software and services companies performed Friday morning:

Google Inc. rose $6.43 to $461.55.

Yahoo Inc. fell 38 cents to $27.75. Yhoo YHOO

EBay Inc. rose 60 cents to $32.32.

VeriSign Inc. fell 13 cents to $34.31.

Akamai Technologies Inc. rose 23 cents to $31.57.

Google Announces – GOOG Internet Availability of Proxy Materials

Google has announced it will make available its proxy materials for the upcoming investor meeting. Google’s press release states,

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the Internet availability of proxy materials for its 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Notice and Access rule. Google’s proxy materials can be found on its investor relations website at http://investor.google.com/.
Pursuant to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Notice and Access rule, companies may now satisfy their proxy materials delivery requirements by delivering a “Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials” to stockholders, providing Internet access to the proxy materials, and providing a printed set of proxy materials by mail to any stockholder who requests them. Google has elected to take full advantage of these new rules in order to minimize impact on the environment and maximize cost savings relating to the printing of the proxy materials. By implementing the procedures permitted under the new Notice and Access rule, Google reduced the number of printed copies of its annual report and proxy materials this year by more than 84 percent.
Google’s 2007 Annual Report on Form 10-K and proxy statement for its 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders have been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and may be viewed on Google’s website at http://investor.google.com/ . Google’s stockholders may obtain hard copies of these proxy materials free of charge by following the instructions provided on its website or in the “Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials”.
Google’s 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be held on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 2:00 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time, at Google’s corporate headquarters at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043. A webcast of the Annual Meeting will be made available at investor.google.com.

Meet between Microsoft and yahoo

Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. senior authorities met this week to talk about Microsoft’s offer to obtain the Internet giant Company yahoo but were unsuccessful to determine any of their differences, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Microsoft executives had no interest to increase their cash-and-stock offer, and the Yahoo camp went on to say no to enter formal negotiations without a sickly bid, people known with the matter say. Yahoo’s board discarded Microsoft’s original bid in February, and Yahoo’s senior executive might see no point in investment talks on the basis of that offer.

Microsoft’s cash-and0stock offer was designated at $44.6 billion during Jan. 31, but a drop in the software maker’s share price has decreased the value to about $42 billion, or $29.29 a share. On Thursday, Yahoo shares traded at $28.13 at 4 p.m. Nasdaq Stock Exchange composite trading.

Want to be a friend of Vanessa Fox – EX Vanessa Fox Google webmaster central Team

I have seen vanessa speak in some of the search conferences and she is pretty cute. Though I never got a chance to speak to her ill probably get a chance to meet her when I am back in US after july.

She is a very good speaker and her presentations were very interesting.

If people don’t know who vanessa Fox is she was a former employee of Google and founder of our favourite http://www.google.com/webmasters/ also she is one of the main backbone behind the Google Webmaster Central blog, she left google in June 2007 to join zillow now works for Ignition Partners as an ‘entrepreneur in residence’

SEO not the easiest thing the world – SEO not so easy,

Search engine optimization as many people think is not something wrong or even its not something easy for everyone to do. It requires a lot of patience and constant and consistent work to move to the top and stay on. This is especially a fact for competitive areas we have some clients rank for very competitive keywords and it took us more than 18 months to reach there. We did this through search engine friendly organic search engine optimization and now the same sites which took so long to rank has been in top 5 for competitive keywords for more than 2 years. That is the power of search engine optimization if client believes in us we will make it work though it takes a bit longer time and once it reaches the peak there is no turning back.

We have clients get back 1500% ROI from the investment they made to us. For example one particular client pays us 1200$ monthly with an initial fee of 8000$. Now his business from Organic search is 70,000$ with a net profit of 15,000$. Imagine the potential of search engine optimization. Same client has been paying about 30,000$ for Google PPC advertising per month and his ROI is 4,000$ a month from PPC. PPC profit is 10 to 15% while his SEO ROI is 1,500 per cent. SEO works and works best for sites that are built best both for users as well as search engines.

First thing in SEO is to make sure client believes the company that work on SEO for them. A good SEO company will deliver results its very important client researches and finds the best and right company for them. Also its important they understand the way SEO works its not like PPC where they setup the ad today and get traffic tomorrow.

SEO is all about improving the quality of the site to get the best reputation for that particular query which is being searched in Google. To do that it requires a lot of patience and work for the website. No one can build Google or yahoo or MSN in a day. Google took 3 years to become a good brand, Microsoft took 10 years and yahoo took 6 years that is how Internet works. A good brand cannot be build in a day.

Search Engine Genie today is one of the most visited SEO related websites on the web and top 10 most visited SEO firms according to alexa we never did this in a day it took us years of hard work to reach this level. SEO for other sites are the same for competitive areas it takes time/ money/man power and resources to be on top of the world’s best search engines.

Search Engines are happy to send their visitors to sites that have the quality they are looking for. We at Search Engine Genie strive to build quality and we never resort against techniques which affect search engine quality.
Look at this particular thread in webmasterworld it really impressed me
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3617477.htm
SEO art a possible representative or owner of a SEO company says

“We started an seo campaign about 6 months ago.
We did all on-page optimization and started link building. The first 3 months saw significant increases in Google’s rankings, then a small decrease.
Now, for the past 3 months, despite continued link building (all permanent, relevant one-way links), the rankings haven’t budged.
Btw, the site has been around for years, and we examined “trust” factors pretty thoroughly to build on those as well. The site doesn’t have any history of spam or black hat stuff.
We plan on holding steady, and continuing with the link building for this site. It’s just been frustrating not to see any changes for so long.
Anyone ever seen this before? “

That is what SEO he has stressed he has been doing a lot of stuff but no improvement in Search engines that is absolutely true. SEO for competitive areas is not something you can do in 6 months it requires at least 6 months of building quality link reputation / site reputation with Google.

P.S: Believe in SEO and understand the difficulty behind it, Good SEO companies will definitely perform.

Search Engine Genie Blog Team.

Google NO competition with SEOs – search engine marketing company performics to be sold

Performics a search engine marketing company which was part of Doubleclick acquistion by google will be sold. This is great news since many were afraid google will come into search engine marketing industry which will be virtually killing the organic rankings since they know their algorithm on how to rank and if they sell search marketing they are virtually manipulating the search results.

Its great news that google is selling performics and not entering the organic search engine optimization industry. Hats off to Google for doing this http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/selling-performics-search-marketing.html

According to official google blog

“We believe this will allow us to maintain objectivity and the search marketing business to continue to grow and innovate and serve its customers. While we have not yet identified a buyer, we’ve received preliminary interest from a number of our current partners. Search Marketing will continue to run as a separate entity until the division is sold.”

SEO Blog team,

Google’s new sitelinks feature – A very useful addition.

We believe the new google’s sitelinks feature is an excellent addition to already relevant search results. When we search for the domain name or site name we can now see additional pages of a site listed under the main URL its called sitelinks but google.

A Search for our company name Search Engine Genie has sitelinks to pages like our SEO plans , tools, pagerank 10 sites list, why us and the Google rank checker free tool. Actually its very good we know these are some of the most important pages of our site and its no surprise these URLs are picked up as sitelinks for our site. Based on what we are seeing sitelinks are selected based on pagerank and quality of external and internal links to those pages. Our Google rank checker and pagerank 10 sites list are 2 of the most important pages of our site and has good number of external links to it.

Sitelinks can be deleted in google webmaster tools login. That is again great on part of google to offer something like to webmasters a great platform for editing our sitelinks.

What is the maximum length of anchor text suitable for search engines?

Anchor text plays a very important role in search engine rankings. Search engines give a lot of weight for keywords in anchor text. Due to this I have heard search engine spammers using 15 or 20 words in anchor text to give weight to all the keywords.

SO what is the good number. Answer is simple do what is best for users do you think your users will like to have 20 keywords in anchor text when linking to a page, I am sure no so please use what is better for your users. Maximum I recommend is to have not more than 6 words in anchor text when you are linking to an external page or a page within your website. Good anchor text links adds value to both users as well as search engines.

The whole concept of Googlebombing was based on this, People used to just add keywords which you want to attack some and just link to that page. We used to have the most infamous anchor text bombs like ” miserable failure ” which used to link george bush page, French military victories page which used to link to a page which talked about french military loses.

More on Google bombing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

Maximum page limits Search Engine crawlers can crawl

One of the most asked question in forums and in message boards what is the maximum depth a search engine can crawl for a page. What is the maximum size Of html /pdf that can indexed by top search engines.

1. For google: As per our latest research Google has a maximum crawl and cache depth of 1 MB only ( excluding images / graphics ) . It Used to be 100 kb then they increased to 250 kb then to 500kb and the latest update is 1 MB per file.

2. Yahoo overtakes Google by a long way, Their indexing and caching limit is 5 MB, check the screen shots below,

3. MSN Search engine: Its very unpredictable for MSN but from our experiment MSN can cache upto 3 MB, we never tested about that probably someone in their search quality team can answer that.

I dont think we worry about any more search engines. I am sure at some point this data is useful for anyone out there. I know we do have some PDFs and large doc to be indexed. Its very important we know the cache limit for that,

SEO Blog Team,

Misspellings and SEO – Is it Good for Search Engines.

Some people have questions whether misspellings of words you target of your company name or any products or services you sell really helps. I would say misspellings are a natural part of the web, but there is a limit for it.

Misspelling SEO has been part of strategy for many Search Engine Spammers for a very long time. Because of this search engines see misspelling on pages especially done on a high level as a major Search engine spam. If you want to misspell your company name for 4 or 5 words then you are perfectly fine with it. But if you are looking to spam then you are not going to win against search engines.

Don’t misspell your competitor names on your pages there were spammers who used to do it and you might be sued by big corporations if you are misspelling their names.

Google says

“Keyword stuffing

“Keyword stuffing” refers to the practice of loading a webpage with keywords in an attempt to manipulate a site’s ranking in Google’s search results. Filling pages with keywords results in a negative user experience, and can harm your site’s ranking. Focus on creating useful, information-rich content that uses keywords appropriately and in context.

To fix this problem, review your site for misused keywords. Typically, these will be lists or paragraphs of keywords, often randomly repeated. Check carefully, because keywords can often be in the form of hidden text, or they can be hidden in title tags or alt attributes.

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