Google Data Center in Oklahoma?

SearchEngineLand reports that Google may be making a move to Oklahoma in an industrial complex that even has its own coal-operating power plant. Evidently Google is looking at the complex to house another data center. Google is growing immensely with other data centers around the country including one here in Dallas. The area being considered by Google is an area of 7,000 acres in an industrial complex. The officials at the complex are being tight-lipped and are neither confirming nor denying whether Google is the company that has purchased 800 acres just south of the area that Gatorade owns.

The data center should be able to handle better local search deliveries and hopefully will help with search engine optimization.

Black Hat Scare Tactics

A really disturbing trend I see in the Search Engine Optimization industry is for so-called SEO professionals to either blog for hysteria or report it on their own website stating, "Blackhat Professional SEOers are on the loose". I suppose they are suggesting they be hired through the mass hysteria that will next leave small babies vulnerable.

This is THE FIRST sign that something is amiss; pointing to others and 'how they are bad'. These unethical tactics run amuck from small agencies to large. I have seen one agency boastings, from one of the largest US cities, they are #1 on MSN but further results show they are 468 place on Yahoo and do not even place within 100 pages of Google which is 1,000 placings in the search engine results pages (SERPs).

The above "agency" was from the North US. Here is what came from a Southern US SEO agency: 'WE WILL SEE YOU GET TO #1 ON GOOGLE!' Fact is, they cannot even place on the first page of google with their city name and SEO. So how can they promise first place on Google when they cannot make to the first page of Google for 'City SEO'.

The best thing for clients to learn is investigate. PERIOD.