Search Engine Marketing Guides

SEO & Competition Analysis Part Two

Once you have optimized the onsite factors from part one of this series it's time to launch into the external factors. External SEO factors generally refer to the internal links to your, and your competitor's, website.

Google Secures Patent For Geocoding

Today, Google was awarded the geocoding patent, which will allow them to issue geocodes (longitude and latitude readings) for postal addresses they've gathered from documents and web sites, among other places.

Verizon, Yahoo! Team Up For DSL

Verizon Communications Inc. and Yahoo! will announce today their launch of a joint DSL service that is, according to the AP, half as fast but just as expensive as Yahoo!'s SBC Communications link-up. At least the DSL service will still be cheaper than AOL's $23.90 a month dial-up. One day AOL should change its name to AWOL (America Waiting Online).

LexisNexis Working On Copyright Protection

LexisNexis and iParadigms teamed up to create a product called CopyGuard to help detect plagiarism and copyright infringement and protect intellectual property. At a time where people and companies are having real problems with copyright protection, this may be a suitable solution for protecting their properties.