The most important part of on-page SEO allows search engines to crawl and index your pages. On-page SEO is all about increasing your discoverability in search engines. You can’t do this without allowing these search engines to access your pages. This is where crawling, indexing, and ranking comes into play. In this video, the folks […]

A persistent complaint of Google critics is that the company seems to be favoring its “own properties” in search results. This has been an issue for a while now, as well as the subject of antitrust investigation in the US and Europe. There was a recent study conducted by developer Daniel Aleksandersen that found that three search […]

Before Facebook, before GoDaddy, before Google My Business, Yahoo Small Business was the top webhosting, e-commerce and marketing platform for small businesses.  It was neglected for years as a kind of cash cow without much investment.  It was even going to be spun out as Aabaco Small Business. But, Verizon agreed to acquire most of Yahoo in 2016 and the […]

About three years ago, Yahoo and Mozilla announced that Yahoo would be the default search engine on Firefox in the US.  The relationship ended up ended early When the much-improved Firefox Quantum browser released last month by Mozilla, with Google as the default search provider. Now, Oath (Verizon), Yahoo’s parent company, has chosen to sue Mozilla for breach of contract.  According […]

According to Mozilla in an announcement, they have terminated their search deal with Yahoo and that that their new version of the Firefox browser, which they’ve name Firefox Quantum, will feature Google as the default search provider. “As part of our focus on user experience and performance in Firefox Quantum, Google will also become our new default […]

Anybody who is online for any given amount of time will be able to tell after some time surfing the web that Google’s domination in the US search ad market is quite the beast.  Thanks more specifically to mobile, Google will take 77.8 percent of the US search ad revenues this year.  By next year, […]

As of March 7th, Flickr rolled out a “similarity search” option that gives users the ability to go deeper into their initial set of search results by clicking on an image to find the photo they want. “Today, we’re introducing similarity search, which uses advanced technology to allow you to discover visually similar photos without much work […]

Regarding the news with Verizon’s buyout of Yahoo, according to Bloomberg, the two entities are close to renegotiating a deal between them, which would bring the price down $250 million.  This price drop is a lot less than the previously rumored $1 billion that was originally sought by the telecommunications company. $4.8 billion was the originally announced purchase […]

If we assume that the huge hacking disclosures Yahoo  made over the last few months don’t derail the Verizon acquisition of the company, CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer, and Yahoo co-founder David Filo, along with four other directors will be leaving the board after the $4.8 billion deal closes.  The changes were announced on January […]

It was earlier this year when Verizon had agreed to buy out most of Yahoo’s assest, which included the  Yahoo brand.  The pricetag of Yahoo’s purchas was almost $5 billion.  Bu this was before the revelation of two massive hacking episodes. The first data breach that took place was back in 2014, were over 500 […]