Yahoo Shareholders Asked to Not Vote for Board Members Re-election

Yahoo's shareholders have been asked by two independent proxy advisory firms to not vote for three board members that were responsible for the $71 Million compensation package to CEO Terry Semel after the company had a 60 percent decrease in net income, slow revenue growth and a 35% drop in stock price for 2006.

Doesn't this go with all CEOs and their lucrative packages despite performance? Just typical...can he alone really be responsible for his companies poor performance? It's just the economy...right?

Pitiful, be the shareholders may say something different. 35% stock price decline....?!?!

Yahoo Algorithm Update

Yahoo announced that it's search engine is going through an algorithm update and many commentors appear to not be so happy about it. Yahoo's update still has not listed SEO Metro as it appears to still be filtered as a new site.

This new update does not see much search engine rank pages differ from the other Yahoo Weather Update that was supposed to help filter out spam results.

Google Filters Appear Lifted

Finally, SEO Metro has gained position on Google for "Texas SEO" on the third page in 24th postion. SEO Metro is now 9 weeks at birth with over 120 one-way inbound links from Yahoo, Altavista and Alltheweb. The company is starting to make headway but have yet to begin the Dallas SEO keywords.

1. SEO Metro is in 4th postion for "Texas SEO" and 11th postion for "Texas Search Engine Optimization" on MSN Live Search.
   
2. SEO Metro is not on the first 5 Search Engine Rank Pages(SERP) for Altavista
3. SEO Metro is not on the first 5 SERP pages for Alltheweb
4. SEO Metro is not on the first 5 SERP pages for Yahoo

Google Rankings Analyzed by German Company

Sistrix, a German SEO company recently analyzed top Google-ranking websites and published their results.

1. Key words in the title tag are important along with keywords in the body.
2. Key words in the H1 title do not appear to be important although important in the H2-H6 titles.
3. Keywords in bold or italicized had some positive effect, along with keywords in the image files and alt images.
4. Domain names with targeted keywords often had an advantage that may be due to inbound links with the domain name as the link text.
5. Sistrix found that keywords in the file name appeared to have no positive effects but file names with the least amount or no parameters ranked higher than those pages with many file parameters.
6. The file size has no effect, however, it was noted that smaller sites have a slight advantage over large sites.
7. Inbound links had definite positive effects and that pages on the top results of the first page rank results were more likely to have 4 times the amount of inbound links with web sites on the second rank result pages.
   

Texas SEO

Well, after a delay of reporting search engine rank pages (SERP), we have been on the second page of MSN Live for Texas Search Engine Optimization for two weeks. SEO Metro started at 3rd but second company in line for Texas SEO on MSN but now rank 3rd company that is positioned in number 5 with MSN. Google, no rank on 50 pages; Yahoo no rank on 50 pages.

SEO Metro will prevail slowly........our goal. Slow, steady and relentless.

Online Ad Sales Record for 2006

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the internet saw a dramatic increase in Branded Display Ads and Search Placement of 35% to a whopping tune of $16.9 Billion as reported on Texas SEO. It appears online advertising will be at a pace for several years to come. This is good news for the online industry as other media such as newspapers continue to decline at an alarming rate. The Dallas Morning News has been suffering subscriptions deficits for a record number of years that probably totals a decade.

Google Buying More Ad Power?

Rumor is online about Google buying Feedpower for $100 million. Google seems to be at no stopping for slurping up the competition. They have the money to burn and buy up all the existing ad comanies and they seem to be at a pace to set records if records have not already been set. Google appears to be interested in the company because of the advertsing embedded within FeedPowers RSS Feeds.

Google on Microsoft- Yahoo Merge

Google must have its ears to the wall on the Microsoft Yahoo meetings where speculation is running. Google must surely have some concern over the ramblings and are probably meeting themselves to see where the search engine wars take their next battles.

If MSN and Yahoo do merge in their search marketing advertisement but remain separate as far as independent search engines strategies will be tweaked to keep bringing in traffic to both entities. So far everyone is tight-lipped but the news should come about soon. If no news happens then we will no it is a "no go" situation.

Microsoft Obtaining Yahoo!?

The New York Post reported earlier today that Microsoft is in negotiations with Yahoo! Microsoft is remaining hush about the meeting but a similar meeting happened last year with no results. Yahoo! shares rose 15% and yesterday their online marketing was worth a whopping $38 billion. Some analyst speculate that Microsoft may bid $50 billion for the search engine company but MS has indicated that some services are duplicated and would do them little good to purchase the whole company. Some analysts believe that Microsoft is attempting to gain Yahoo!'s online search advertising market.

Microsoft and Yahoo's share of the search advertising market would add up to 27 percent against Google's 65 percent but would bridge the gap in online ads with Google to just 13 percent.

YouTube and User Monetization

YouTube announced that it is starting a program for "popular users" to gain monetarily by having advertisements placed near their posted content. It appears that users will be able to have some control over the placing of advertisements but the news so far is vague. The users having this feature have been "invited" by YouTube but it appears that this may be a feature for other users in the future.