This is a follow up post to the my previous post about Google removing "their" definition of PageRank from their technical information page. My last post sort of ended on the subject of whether it is even possible to build PageRank for the everyday website without violating Google's "new" technical guidelines. The following are two seemingly now accepted statements based on Google current guidelines, but after an in depth look it isn't as clear as at first glance...

Up until recently Google had an explanation of PageRank on their technology overview page located here: http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html

I recently noticed they have removed their explanation of how PageRank is calculated using their "vote" concept.

Google's Caffeine update is now underway, they have started showing Caffeine results @ 209.85.225.103. Apparently the new results only show about 50% of the time, but if you keep refreshing you can see the difference in results.

To do a search go to: http://209.85.225.103/webhp?hl=en&btnG=Search After you get the results change the www.google.com in the URL to the IP address to make sure you keep getting Caffeine results as you go through multiple pages.

So it has now officially been reported that Yahoo and Microsoft have struck a deal. Preliminary reports suggest that Bing.com will power Yahoo's search results and Yahoo will handle advertising sales. Obviously this causes a lot of uncertainty in the SEO field. Will Yahoo's results now show exactly the same results as Bing.com? If so that will cause a major shift in the SEO field to studying Microsoft's search algorithm which until now most marketers dismissed as a waste of time.

Microsoft recently renamed it's search engine to Bing.com. You would think by now they could at least settle on a name, MSN.com? Live.com?? Bing.com???

Really? Apparently Microsoft must think the key to a successful search engine is having a silly word as its name since obviously that is why Google, and Yahoo! are more popular.

You often see headlines of astounding sums of money paid for domain names without any website or business behind them. Many people argue that in most cases the cost doesn’t justify value. I am guessing that these people don’t know about, or haven’t thought about the SEO value of a domain name.

If you have not read my previous post, go here first before reading below: Part 1

So, after we had successfully registered our first domain name, we began building our first website. Again, we really had no idea what we were doing and were just making things up as we went. We taught ourselves the basics of HTML and used what very little talent we had in graphic design to piece together what at the time we thought was a masterpiece. Our site consisted of what we considered to be the most important content web surfers would want to see:

For my first blog post I thought it would be fun to reminisce a bit about how I got started in the business of Internet Marketing and Development. To do this we must go back to about 1994 when I was just a teenager. My next-door neighbor, one of my best friends (still is), and I were addicted to computers. Games, programming, graphic design, taking them apart, and just about anything else you can think of. Those were the days when Prodigy and AOL were mainstream and the World Wide Web (www) was just starting to take hold.