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Geeks on Steroids did search engine optimization for a select group of clients several years ago but decided to get out of online marketing for other people and focus on our own sites. This year after many meeting and lots of talks we have decided to once again start offering search engine optimization.
According to Chris Yahoo has no intentions of getting rid of the Overture keyword tool. The problem is that they are incapable of keeping the tool online.
How in the world is Yahoo ever going to compete against Google if they are incapable of keeping one simple tool online? Not to worry here is another tool that seems to work better than Yahoo’s.
I just read a post by theGypsy on another forum about this and wanted to add my two cents.
When you have a tool that has been as widely used as the http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ I think it’s crazy to stop updating the tool and discontinue it. But that’s what Yahoo is doing. If Google had owned the tool, I’m sure we would have seen the tool updated, online and surrounded my AdSense Ads.
But then it is Yahoo that said, “It’s not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search. We would be happy to maintain our market share.” And it appears it’s all they want to do. They updated their ads to be like Google and made no attempt to improve on what Google already had in place and now they are removing pages that get traffic. I’m not sure that there is anyone out there trying to compete with Google.
Yahoo has already said their happy being No.2 and MSN doesn’t seem smart enough to remove someone that stupid from No.2, there is no way they can get to be No.1. I think the webmasters are ready to get behind anyone that is willing to make a half ass attempt at being No. 1 but then I really don’t think it will be a search engine that will remove Google from their position.
At the rate social media sites are evolving, it is just a matter of time before something comes along that is able to deliver information and be more sociable than Google. Google will be the first to know when this site comes along although Yahoo may never know about it.
This is an improvement and I’m glad to see Yahoo trying to do something right but it sure took a long time to copy someone.
On Monday Feb. 5th Yahoo will be launching it’s new ranking model for ads. It will now take into account the quality of the ad along with the price being bid. If it sounds like you’ve heard this before it’s because it is the same thing that Google does. Not only can Yahoo not come up with something new but it takes them years to copy someone else’s ideas.
There is a post over at WPW talking about Yahoo and how they seem to be stealing advertising dollars. Several members have started talking about the problems they are having with Yahoo. It seems the biggest problems is that they want let you block your ads from showing on publishers sites nor different countries. On top of that from what I’ve read it sounds like they try their best not to give you any customer service.
Way to go Yahoo, I guess Google has nothing to worry about but then didn’t I read something about you being happy being #2?
The thread is here