Use Drupal for SEO

Drupal is SEO friendly. This open source content management system is great for people that need an inexpensive program to create their web. Drupal comes bundled with Fantastico on most web hosting packages. The code is W3C complaint and you can create content on the fly. Search engines can quickly find a drupal web site.

I worked for a CMS site and their program costs lot of money. So, rather than spend big bucks use drupal, make it your pal.

SEO links

Here is a raft of SEO links for you. These links will help make your page more interesting. Learn while you go with these links about SEO. All major category types are included as well as some tutorials on how to make your content better. It is a fun read. There are more ways to rank high in the search engines.

Google Chrome

There's a new browser in town, Google Chrome is his name. This is to allow Google to compete with Internet Explorer version 8 from Microsoft. Personally, I like Chrome much better than IE8, but I also prefer XP to Vista.

Google Chrome is friendly like Mozilla Firefox and has a lot of potential. It is optimized for javascript so I need to test it against some web pages that are heavy on javascript and find out how it performs. Stay Tuned!

Big Search

Meta search engines, like quintura, clusty, and mamma help you find things fast. Many people only look at google, but there are many engines in the land of search. Find out what you nave been missing.

Digg Spam

There are people who are spamming the social networks with stories of quuestionable content. Digg spam is getting worse with the typical "rorex repreica" ads and the usual V{&#$GRA spam. Perhaps we can get the people at Digg to clamp down on the spammers who destroy destinations with their mercantile mentality.

Importance of SEO

I feel that few thingd are more important to your website than SEO. If people cannot find you they cannot benefit from your content and they cannot purchase your products. An empty mall means bankruptcy for the store, likewise a website without traffic means failure for its founder.

seoeng

I use SEOENG or Search Engine Optimization Engine, a bit redundant eh? For SEO and you should too. It is free and gives you a detailed report about the weak points of your web site. So give it a spin.

SEO to help your business

All firms need to become visible to customers. Using SEO to help your business involves tactics to gain exposure and new ways to get ranked in Google. In addition to text search there is Youtube for your videos and Google images for pictures you may have.

It is wise to use multiple methods to get exposure to clients because you increase the chances that your firm might make a sale. The more customers see your business the greater the opportunity to make a connection.

Google adwords qual score now in real time

They are using CTR to calc the qual score for ads on adwords. Google quality score is now real time and super fast. This might be XLent news for some. I still wonder how it is sum up. The qual score determines how much you have to pay for clicks.

Jobs disappearing?

They say there is much unemployment, but a better reason is that our jobs are disappearing. We see outsourcing to India as a major reason that there are fewer jobs in the US. Many media jobs such as creating graphics, programming shopping carts, developing web sites are being sent to India. You can replace a $35,000/yr US job with a person making $3,000/yr and thats not all. The company saves even more money because they do not have to pay medical insurance, workmans comp, employment tax, and an office or cubicle.

It does not take a genius to see that we will soon have soaring unemployment rates as more work is sent to low wage venues.

Joining Blogs2c

I am joining blogs2c a service to find blogs by their zip code so you can locate bloggers in your area. How to meet more people close to where I live.



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Fixing your pictures

They say a picture is worth a thousand words and you will find that quality images will help you sell product. Here is a list of photo editing tools that you can use. Mostly I use the community edition of the Noiseware tool to remove noise from my photos and prepare them for the internet. Most photos on web pages are heavily enhanced and photoshopped.

Simpy

I found a new social bookmarking site called SIMPY.
This site is like finding a gem. It has few users,
but still sends pr to you page.

Free SEO tools

Here are 12 free SEO t9ols to help you rank well in the search engines. These tools are based on the idea that the more information you have about your web site, the better. It is time to improve the position of your web pages.

Time to join zimbio

I am now a member of zimbio and encourage others to check it out. It will help send more users to your website, blog, etc so you can add more readers to your code & content.


Top Stories

Seobro is now a dofollow blog

I went into the HTML and took out all the nofollow code and replaced it with dofollow. Please remember to expand widgets if you want this feature in your blog. Well, now all the comments pass page rank to the visitor that posted them. Share and enjoy the link love.

Permalinks

Using permalinks can help people find your content if you like to move it around a bunch. Try to find long names that give people a clue about what your article is describing so they can locate you.

Outbrain

I signed up and registered today for the outbrain blog popularity rating widget. We shall see how it plays. This widget has a rating system of five stars for excellent.

Here are some SEO tips

Look at Aaron Wall from seobook video on SEO Tips to get ideas for your web sites.

Using image tags for SEO

Image tags help visually impaired people understand your web site. They also assist search engines in categorizing your content. For this reason it is wise to use image tags in your web pages.

Typically I will have about three images per page and 200-300 words of content. If there are many more words of content the user is forced to scroll and can get bored with dry text. Adding pictures and videos will not only spice up your content, but image tags help the search engines find it.

Getting to the top of the search engines

My view is that you should concentrate on the very long tail keywords that most ignore. As the saying goes - one mans trash is another mans treasure. If you go after the big high traffic keywords you will end up on position 257 or something and get very little traffic.

Another saying goes like this - it is better to be a big frog in a small pond than a small frog in a big pond. This becomes very true on the internet. Aaron Wall has tips to get new web sites to rank quickly. When you are new you have few back links and getting ranked by the search engines if difficult; this is one more reason to stay away from the big high traffic keywords that are hard to do well in.

Once you are doing well with low traffic words and have mastered them you can expand to higher traffic keywords (more competitive) and move up the food chain of the net.

Is it OK to use fake avatars?

Well, some people think it is not OK to use fake avatars in social media and want a real person behind the profile. Personally, I feel that people should be able to "cosplay" an avatar and pretend to have an alter ego. This is just me, but are handles a way to become another individual or not?

Sphinn is in

Check out a new website for SEO social networking called Sphinn which can give you the lates tips on how to optimize your web site for high ranking on the search engines.

Being an Intrapreneur: The Fallacy of Expertise

Being an Intrapreneur: The Fallacy of Expertise is a great book because it points out the short coming of believing authority figures.

We must no depend on SEO expert to tell us what to do, but think for ourselves.

Youtube is your ally

You can use youtube to get a top ranking on Google. See how easy it is!

Cuill takes on Google

Former Google employees are creating Cuil to take on the search engine giant. This is an exciting time for the internet as new technology is being created. Cuill does not use Pagerank, but instead of links it looks at content, and uses that to decide with page is most relevant.

I went on cuil and found a lot of spam and old sites that have not been updated in a while. It is good to find content that is buried deep in the internet, but many of the pages it digs up contain outdated sources.

New Google Keyword Tool

The Google Keyword Tool now has numbers so you can better calculate your spend on adwords. This is a great improvement, as before we only had bars to detect keyword strength. It is possible to sort through the keyword list to find a gem.

Walnut Tree Video

Let's get away from SEO and keywords today with a video about a black walnut tree. Enjoy...

It's Qik in bro!

Turn the cell phone into your own personal newscam that stream live feed of video to the web with Qik. The new program is now in public beta and FREE for all to use. This is the future and we can now see what is coming.

Do search engines ignore your web pages?

There are many reasons why search engines could ignore your web pages. One of these is using the tags NOINDEX or NOFOLLOW as these tell the search engine to ignore the we page. Be very careful when you use these tags as you could be telling a search engine to not index your we site.

Finding high traffic keywords

This keyword is for the book "Philosophy of Time Travel" by Robert Sparrow from the movie Donnie Darko.

keyword	competition	search	KEI
philosophy roberta sparrow time travel	13	2002	308308
donnie darko2c the philosophy of time travel	1	283	80089

Getting a KEI score above 400 is considered excellent and these super high scores with almost no competition are like a gift.

If you check you will see that none of these websites is a list of time travel books, but instead most are spam sites with lots of unrelated keywords.

So called "serious" websites shy away from controversial subjects like ghosts, UFO, bigfoot, and time travel. It is therefore possible to find high KEI keywords in controversial subjects.

What to do if your blog sux

Having a popular blog is hard work, and here are some suggestion on writing blogs that don't suck. Well, according to the author you should have good writing skills and knowledge of your subject matter. That said, I suggest posting on major social media sites where you can get feedback from the audience about your articles.

Ways make your blog more popular

1) Add pictures
2) Add video
3) Add widgets

Is your blog useful?

Bruce Clay takes about popular vs useful, about being a class clown or being a teacher. He feels that blogs should have useful information in them. Their purpose is to instruct, not entertain. We should focus on adding value to our blog.

Advertisers switch from TV to web

Many advertisers are switching from TV and newspapers to web. Newspapers I can understand because news print is expensive, but why TV is fading out is not so obvious. Perhaps we see that new media is changing our world.

How is your SEO doing?

Weak SEO - Search Engine Optimization is a problem for many people. Instead of creating quality content they try to trick the SE into giving them top position.

Still, as our friends at the main search engine warn us that unethical techniques can cause a site to be delisted or drop in the rankings. Well, enough of sad stories.

On the plus side we can have fun with a throwable camera that captures pictures in flight.

Yahoo BOSS

Yahoo BOSS or Build your Own Search Service is a new way that people can integrate SE tech into their web pages. This will allow users to customize the search and add unique functionality.

Microsoft vs Yahoo

Leaving the merger aside, what about pay per click? Both Microsoft AdCenter and Yahoo Panama are fighting to position two, that is because Yahoo Search Marketing / Overture has been on a downhill spin.

At one time overture was ahead of Google Adwords, but that seems to have occur in the distant past as Yahoo is now a sick old man with a death rattle in his voice.

Google Outsourcing Copywriting to India?

Read it and weep. Google is joining many other firms and sending high tech jobs to low wage countries. In fact, Google is outsourcing copywriting to India and that's not all. It seems we are seeing a rise in the number of firms that expect PhD work at the low rate of fifty cents an hour.

SEO guru tools

There are many SEO Guru Tools that you could use. Most are free and easy to deploy. One tool that I use and it is not on the list is Nichebot. It should be part of your tool chest.

Nichebot allows me to easily find keywords and the old classic version is free.

Avoid SEO Malpractise

Many SEO techniques can get your web site banned from search engines and cause you headaches. It is important to understand that certain strategies will land you in hot water. Most people do not use tiny text or stuff keywords into meta tags anymore, but did you know that Google has an Over Optimization Penalty?

The OOP could strike you if your keyword density is too high. Pages too rich in keywords are a red flag. Try to keep keyword density below 5% and do not over stuff the content.

Keyword Research Tactics

I look for keywords with low competition and big traffic. My keyword research strategy is based on using the following search engines -

Quintura
Clusty
Kartoo

From them I can create a list of keywords that will send traffic to the web site.

To narrow the list I use -

Keyword discovery
Wordtracker
Microsoft adcenter

Digger Tips

To get an SEO boost, many are using Digg as a social networking site. Here are some tips for diggers. Submits lots of stories, make sure they are interesting, and make sure they are relevant.

This should get you links and hopefully more respect from the search engines, and start digging today.

SEO PR techniques

SEO page rank sculpting is a new idea. Still, we can benefit from PR if we understand how it works. Try to send PR to your most important pages and set no follow to unimportant pages.

For example, legal and FAQ are types of pages that you can deny sending PR to and instead we can send it to selling pages so they rank higher.

Improve tour blog

Google looks to authority sites when ranking keywords. There are ways to increase your blogging authority and your ranking on the search engines. One way is to get links from high PR blogs to your blogs this transfers some links juice to your. Writing quality content is a way to do that.

Another method is to make frequent posts to social networks. This will raise your profile and make you know, as well as getting you more links. The important thing is getting links to your blog.

Problems with SEO

One problem firms face is negative SEO. Customers place complaints about the product and search engines pick it up. This can ruin your business so keep an eye out for any new stories about your company.

If you see a pice of damaging information, try to work with the customers. It may be that they will pull the story after they get a refund for a defective product. There are other more aggressive measures such as lawsuits that can be used as well.

Your online reputation is important.

McCain & Obama in web war

The two presidential candidates Barack Hussein Obama and John McCain are in a web war. Well, some say that the internet savvy Obama will win. I feel that each candidate has strengths. McCain is a war hero and Obama is a good speaker.

Is onsite SEO going away?

With all the talk about getting one way link and creating linkbait, it seems some have forgetten the importance of great articles to get readers and search engines interested in what you have to say.

I have found that most people put all their effort into getting links and yet there is little emphasis on the content. Perhaps onsite SEO is history, but I feel that content is still king.

Most web pages that are low on content let us say flash heavy and filled with picture have a hard time ranking high in the search engines because there is little text to search. Perhaps in the future AI will make sense of picture, but for now TEXT is it.

Social Networking

Social Networking is now mainstream. Much like the Apple Ipod replaced the Sony Walkman, internetworking has replaced hangouts for teens, and the internet is becoming more interpersonal everyday.

The big shift is that now websites like digg help to drive traffic to other sites. An army of diggers helps filter out the good story from the junk spam. It is the dawn of a new day in technology.

What to do when rankings fall

We can often panic when we tumble from position one down to five or even get booted off the first page, but the key is to prepare not scare. I often will rewrite the content to engage emphasis on the main keyword and add links that contain the main keyword as an anchor, but it takes time to build back up to position one.

Often an algorithm change will kick you out, and you better be quick to make changes. Still, some SEO experts say that you should not change anything, and spend that time promoting your page to get links. Well, I know that Google will penalize stale content. They want you to refresh your content on a regular basis.

Think of a store display, when the rain clouds pass and the sun comes out, you get rid of that black umbrella and put some happy colorful beachware on display. Keep the content fresh.

SEO good for the economy?

Is search engine optimization and marketing good for economic growth? Well, I feel that if we buy more over the internet that will save gasoline and well as remove congestion from roads.

Also, if more people work at home, this will improve society because you save time and more, as well as fuel. Bosses can check up using a webcam. The internet is now becoming more social and face to face meeting can talk place over the web.

I see the growth of the web page as well as doing business over the wire as a net gain.

Keyword Research

There are many SEO keyword research tools to help you improve conversion. Many of the most popular are Keyword Discovery, Wordtracker, and Nichebot. Still, it helps to look for new tools that help you find more phrases that are low in competition, yet high in visitor traffic.

How does Google look at anchor text?

Some say that with Google only the first link counts, but other say that they have debunked the first anchor text only theory. I feel that all link count, but that those near the top and above the fold count more than links at the bottom of the page.

One reason is that most footers contain {contact us, legal, copyright, address, etc} that those not relate to page content and is repearted in page after page of the site. Thus it is more interested in top of page content and anchor text when ranking links.

Comcast limits web use

We were all jumping into web 2.0 and video, but now Comcast wants to limit web use. To many people watching videos on the internet have made Comcast want to throttle web use. This reminds me of an airline that wanted to charge fat people extra.

Perhaps they want use to go back to the 90's and use tiny gifs and lots of stale text to make our web sites load faster.

The future is web 2.0 and Comcast needs to upgrade their aging infrastructure. There are not fantastic, they are complaincastic!

Make your website SEO easy

There able many ways to make your website SEO friendly and easy to use. Try to not use a lot of computer code mix with HTML. The search engines have problems finding your keywords if they are buried inside the code. Eliminate frames and flash as engine can choke on it. Try to limit javascript as mush as possible. Straight HTML is the easiest for all engines.

Tracking your links

Well, people are talking about you, but that's a good thing. Using tools like Google Alerts you can see how links are added. Mostly use this tool for blog conversations. Social alerter can help you keep track of forums. There are many tools to see you is linking to your site.

Blog insurance?

James Duthie asks the question - Do you have blog insurance? This is interesting as I never thought of blog insurance as something I might need, perhaps he made me aware of an area that I am lacking in.

Perhaps this new area of blog insurance is the new wave of the internet. Thank you James and all the best to you.

Learning SEO basics

According to Jessica Bowman even if you outsource your SEO, it is a good idea to learn SEO basics so you can better administer what is going on. I agree totally, because if we do not understand what is happening we will be in a world of hurt.

One of her ideas of bringign an SEO consultant in house to teach SEO to your people is excellent because it allows you to gain competent designers and programmers to help push forward your SEO drive.

The future belong to innovative companies that learn new skill and move in new directions.

Social Media

I still remember when CompuServ charged me $6/hr to use their service over a 300 baud modem, that was back in the 80's. I was using a terminal, talk about "thin client", and made friends over cyberspace.

Social media marketing has been around even before we had computers. In fact, I believe it probably began around a fire in a dark cave. Still, the internet has made it easier to communicate with the world via, text, sound, and video.

Problem with linkbait

We all want links to our website, but one problem with linkbait is that you have no control over what anchor text will be used to link to your web page and Google will penalize you if too many links have the same exact tag. Remember that most people are not creative and they will you your title as anchor text so this may trigger an avalanche of similar links to your web page.

Buy domains for SEO help?

The right domain name can help you get a boost to you business. Perhaps you have heard about the sandbox and how it works. An aged domain with aged links can boost your stand. To avoid making mistakes flipsquare has a domain buying mistakes list.

Google says no to paying users to click

Google grew market share in April while Yahoo, AOL, Ask, and Microsoft lost. Anxious to get back in the game, MSN will now pay users. This is a desperate attempt to gain back market share. Google says it will concentrate on the relevance of search and it has "no plan to pay users."

Get the edge with SEO

SEO can give you the edge in competition with other businesses. Each firm looks at the net to generate new sales, but few uinderstand the power of search engine optimization. Each brand should try to carve out a niche for itself.

The key is to dominate a small portion of the internet. Then you can expand into new areas.

Social Media as a source of traffic

Target social media for posts to get traffic. You need more exposure for your web site and blog. Making people aware of what you have to offer will increase the number of visitors you get as well as links and bookmarks. If you get on the front page of a major social media web site you will build brand awareness for your name. This will help increase the number of active members you have.

For example, I just signed up for Technorati to get more exposure for my blog.

Community powered local search

Lets face it, most search is local. You do not want to go to a store one hundred miles away. Also, if you are a business, most customers live within the five mile radius of your store. As gasoline prices go up this becomes more true every day.

So community powered local search is great for both the customers and the stores. This is the future of search engines.

Google controls search quality.

Google works hard every day to improve its search algorithm that determines which pages get top rankings on the search engine. The dynamic duo of Larry Page and Sergey Brin came up with the page rank algorithm that assigns a score to each page on the internet.

Basically Google has a spam prevention team to control search quality. The see who is abusing the system and how it is done. Black hat hackers are contrsntly changing their methods so Google must constantly be changing their algorithm to make search relevant.

Are alt image tags important?

It is one more way that Google looks at your page. I feel that the ALT IMAGE TAGS tell the search engine what the picture is about. Also the popup tool tip helps the user identify the picture.

The title tag also helps as does the name of the picture so call your pic something like BABY_DUCK.JPG instead of xtw172v.jpg, and have an ALT IMAGE TAG of {a baby duck} to go which it.

Keyword Relevance

Finding relevant keywords is essential to SEO and marketing. As Christine Churchull says "Many CEOs of big biz outsource SEO to people in poor countries that do not have command of the English language." Executives are always saying 'cut costs', 'gotta outsource', and 'reduce headcount' when in fact, many inhouse people are the best for finding relevant keywords.

Future SEO trends

AS we look out into the far future no doubt technology will be far different than now, but what are the near term investor marketing trends telling us? Basically we see that Google is taking over. Yahoo and Microsoft have lost the search engine war. The merger of the two failure might have postponed the inevitable demise of Microsoft, but only by prolonging the agony.

Small search engines like ASK.COM will slowly fade away. They cannot compete with the giants. Take a look at all the small car companies of the 1920's. Truth is that the internet will look very different in the future with HD video and broadband being common, but the main player are already at the table.

Online Reputation

People can trash your online rep so be careful out there. By planting false stories competition can do serious damage to you. They can make baseless claims and attack you with fake photos and planted stories.

Finding Keywords

Number one in my arsenal is Keyword Discovery, and two is Word Tracker, but both of these are expensive. There are many free tools out there for keyword brainstorming.

Some of my favorite tools are Quintura, Kartoo, and Mooter.

Myspace beats spammers

Myspace won a court judgement against spammers for 230 million dollars. Spam is choking the mail, it is twisting up guestbook, filling up forums. Don't clog the blog with spam. Most people get a few emails, but I get thousands each day from spammers.

Riding the cluetrain is a pain

Get the free text to the Cluetrain and read it for yourself. It is nothing short of a revolution in new think. Perhaps you do not see the future. It is getting closer everyday.

Still, the book is a hard read as you will find out. It is not as simple as many would imagine to ride the train.

Ways to boost your rank

Linking to BBC will boost your rank on Google and help you get to the top. This is old news to most SEOs, but it may help people who fail to link to others learn that linking to authority sites helps both parties.

Actually I think that some form of PR is passed back to your site. How this works is still a bit cloudy, but linking to bad neighborhoods hurts you also.

Best SEO blogs

Best bloogers in the biz parade their best blogs. Learn what tech is like now. SEO is changing and we must change with it. Most of these blogs should be common knowledge, but a few will surprise you.

Future of search

What will future search engines be like? Should we use 3D goggles or pictures? Microsoft has a patent for Queryline Tracking. Is this the road ahead for finding information? Time will tell.

Is blogging worth it?

Shari Voigt has an excellent article called "What Makes Blogging Worth It For You?" that talks about the investment in time and power that it takes to make your blog a success. This very excellent topic is described in a logic based manner. The ROI is high for blogs.

A good read for all bloggers.

Wind Power

Green Tech is the future and wind power will make it possible. Wind generated electricity is quite inexpensive. It is going to help us create power without greenhouse gas.

Today my favorite link is - cashnrewardsnetwork.com

www.cashnrewardsnetwork.com

This is a place where you can Get paid to sign up for offers, view ads, take surveys and more. So check it out an post a comment on how it went.

Blog comments for traffic & SEO?

Adding good comments to blogs is a great way to gain PR and traffic. Simply avoid spammy SEO comments that annoy blog owners and concentrate on adding value to the blog. Most readers will appreciate good comments.

Homes facing foreclosure double

The number of homes facing foreclosure have double over a year ago. 2008 is now more than ever a recession year as people lose jobs and cannot pay for homes. This situation is getting worse as real estate price declines in Feb 2008 were at a record 13.6% for a ten city survey.

Lucky Oliver isn't

The microstock photo agency known as Lucky Oliver is shutting down. It was a great little place to get photos for blogs. Sadly, the economy is so bad that people cannot even afford a dollar per picture. I hope that other bigger microstock agencies survive the recession.

Humans nearly extinct 70,000 year ago?

Scientist say that due to a drought, that humans nearly became extinct 70,000 years before now. This seems to be wrong as the evidence would have a very small gene pool instead of a large gene pool.

US consumer confidence at 26 year low

Due to a falling dollar and rising oil prices, consumer confidence is at a 26 year low. Things keep getting worse. The mortgage meltdown and subprime slippover are only part of a grim picture. The economic crisis is now hitting home.

rice shortage?

Walmart is restricting purchase of rice. This is strange because the world eats rice as a main source of food. There appears to be a rice shortage. Perhaps we can find out what is causing this new shortage of food.

Danica Patrick wins Indy 300

Damica Patrick, the first woman, wins the Indy 300 race. This is a history making event. I believe that one day a woman will win the Indianapolis 500 mile race. It would be a joy to see Danica Patrick win at Speedway with the checkered flag.

Google Algo Change

Google changed its algorithm in an effort to stop search engine spammers. This new update is known as Dewey and I hope it reduces the number of MFA pages on the web. We also need more pages that are not link farms.

Low cost HD cameras

I was chomping at the bit to get an HD camera, but they were all sooo sooo expensive. Well, now Kodak has an HD camera for only $169 and it is a winner! The Kodak z1275 shoots 720p movies (1280 X 720) and also takes 12MP pictures (3000 X 4000) and it can do low light at 3200 iso. A great combo that comes with a 5X zoom lens. HD is here! It's time to jump on the HD video bandwagon and start to upload movies.

Record high oil

Record high oil prices are creating hardship for many people. It can cost over $100 to fill the fuel tank. The fuel prices are so high that senator McCain has proposed a tax holiday this summer for travellers. It is sure to get some noticed as most people are worried about high fuel bills.

blended search

A lot of my traffic comes from youtube and images. Blended search by google is changing the game. Many people now hit an image to learn more about a product, or go to a youtube video to see it in action.

Foreclosures up 178% in Youngstown, OH

They call it the incredible shrinking city as jobs and people leave Ohio to move west. A city that once had 150,000 inhabitants is now a shadow of its former self. It is slowly shrinking away.

Is this the future for america?

Bot breaks captcha in six seconds

Captcha broken with pattern recog robot. Spammers like to break the captcha so the can create emails on hotmail to spam people with ads for "rorex rap licats" and other such. The problem is growing an microsoft is taking steps to stop spam.

Home sales down and now car sales down

Automobile manufacturers are seeing a drop in sales due to an economy in ruins as well as banks unwilling to make loans. For now we see a problem that extends far beyond the sub prime and into the very core of the economy. The problems of Wall street are affecting main street america.

Yahoo talks merger with Microsoft

Yahoo is exploring a merger with Microsoft as one path it might take. The Software giant has seen its share of search decline and is desperate to unite with Yahoo to fight Google.

Another option is to oputsource ads to Google and try to exit search. This would be sad as Yahoo created search and is an internet pioneer.

Yahoo to run Google ads

Mighty Yahoo has bowed to the mightier Google. It is now a day that will live in internet history as Yahoo will start running Google adwords ads on its many pages. And you think it is over, but no the plot thickens as AOL and Rupert Murdock talk about a possible merger with Yahoo. Stay tuned.

Is ethanol the answer?

Lets have an ethanol reality check, are corn power cars the answer? If we use corn to make grain alcohol and pour that down the tank, we have less food and more fuel. It becomes a food vs fuel.

In the future we might have solar powered scooters as transportation, but buring biomass is not the solution. In fact, our world need more food, not less, so turing food into fuel is not a solution.


The future use of fuel is well - fuelish...

Lawn mower on ethanol?

The question is - can I run my lawn mower on ethanol?
Well, let's see what happens when grain alcohol is fed to a lawn mower.

Are Hybrids the greenest?

With sky high fuel bills many people are thinking of getting a hydrid car. Still, I believe that a small car can be just as good in regular driving. Here we compare two small cars the Toyota Prius Hybrid and a BMW.

Is the recession good for SEO?

Yes, that sounds strange, but as companies cut back on their PPC campaign the emphasis is on organic traffic which although less target driven is less expensive. In fact, a recession can be good for SEO and link building is always a great strategy.

Check out free versions of Nichebot, Keyword Discovery, Wordtracker, Microsoft Adlab, and Google Trends.

Future Rulers

Times they be a changing, as we look at the world around us. Many wonder what future rulers will be like. Other know that any ruler good or bad will attempt to maintain power. This is a given in any society, so we see that the ruler cannot be good.

Look at taxes, in Indiana in the 70's the sales tax was 2% and now it is 7%. Why is the tax not still 2%? Well, rulers are greedy. I mean inflation causes more money to go to the state, look at how prices keep going up, but why has the percentage of taxes gone up?

Your salary in inflation adjusted dollars is less, but you pay a bigger portion in taxes. The big bite keeps getting bigger as the appetite of the ruler increases.

Do you think that if you ask the citizens they would vote to increase sales tax from 2% to 7%?

Super Fast Internet for HD movies

Say goodbye to going to Blockbuster to rent your bluray movie. Comcast is rolling out a new internet service that is blazingly fast. At 50mb/sec you can stream HD video over the new connection. It is so fast that my current DSL service seems like a turtle. Comcast will charge $150/mo for this new super fast internet connection that is able to handle HD movies.