Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'business'

Google Clicks Up 14% & CPC Drops 6%, Overall GOOG Up 7%

Google released third-quarter earnings last night and it was a very good earnings release. Overall, Google's earnings are up 7% this past quarter compared to last years Q3. They earned $5.94 billion in revenue with operating income at $2.07 billion,...

GOOG (Google) To Break $500? It Has In Pre-Market

Google's stock, GOOG, closed yesterday at $499.06, just under the $500 mark. Will it break $500 today? Well, it has already in the pre-market trade. Personally, I felt $80 was too much for Google. But clearly, I know nothing about...

GOOG Earnings Up While YHOO & MSFT Complete Search Deal

Last night, Google (GOOG) announced earnings and they "met" expectations, because the revenues were up 3%. There is a lot of buzz about this on Techmeme, but to read more about the earnings and the conference call about the earnings,...

60% Of Our Readers Feel Yahoo Cannot Turn Things Around

The other day, I spilled my guts out about missing the old days of Yahoo. I honestly wish Yahoo was on their way to a full recovery and become a strong competitor to Google or even not compete with Google,...

55% Of SEO Companies Won't Offer Pay For Performance Deals

A week ago, we polled our audience asking Are You Still Offering SEO Services Paid By Performance? For example, are you willing to exchange direct payment in exchange for payment on the basis of rankings, or traffic or on revenue...

Business Improving Recently? Poll: How Are You Weathering The Recession

I was hoping to reach out to our audience and find out, via an anonymous poll, how your companies are weathering the recession. Why now? Well, I noticed a HighRankings Forum thread that discusses some SEO companies noticing a recent...

Google & Microsoft Announce Earnings

In the past two days, Google and Microsoft have announced earnings. Google's announcement is over here and Microsoft's announcement is over here. The market had time to react to Microsoft's announcement of cutting 5,000 jobs and a weak outlook on...

Carol Bartz To Take CEO Role At Yahoo, Decker On Out

I am sure by now, most of you heard the news that is buzzing all over the Internet. Carol Bartz Joins Yahoo as Chief Executive Officer is the headline of the Yahoo press release. Here is her impressive bio: Carol...

Google Maps Business Phone Verification Bug Continues

Yesterday, Maps Guide Tom at Google Groups reported to business owners that issues with phone verification have been fixed. Forum members are not convinced. It seems that issues are still persisting. Business owners who are trying to validate their business...

The Importance of a #1 Google Ranking

Aaron Wall recently wrote a brilliant piece about the value of a #1 Google ranking. In his in-depth article, which is divided into 9 sections, he explains based on research and a variety of forum discussion that even small declines...

Google Local Scams Are Taken Seriously

A Google Groups member points us to some shady practices that a business is applying on Google Local. Apparently, a website registered nearly 100 "businesses" at local nightclubs even though they don't own the nightclubs. Their intentions are to take...

Google Does Impact Many Small Businesses

digg_url = 'http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/012706.html'; Like with the Florida Google Update, many stories came out with businesses going belly up, due to the huge changes with Google's algorithm. Since then, the industry took a focus on balancing paid and free listings...

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