Firefox's Extension for Spam Reporting

Spam reporting is much easier now with Firefox's Spam Report add on. Several sites were found and reported today. It is easy as two clicks. One spam website even offered web promotion and tried to protect their view source but as it was easily uncovered by Firefox Tidy, it revealed a couple of hundred of hidden keywords. Not what I would call website promotion by any means.

An internet search around a few keywords and SEO Metro easily found other sites that had duplicated pages in their sites with just one major keyword change but hundreds of similar pages. These are sites that one would think the owners would know that such tactics are against most if not all search engine's terms of service. Evidently the webmasters consider the risk worth taking or consider that what they are duplicating is not against terms of service. Regardless, the Spam Reporting extension tool on Firefox is definitely worth having as it takes little effort to know report spam sites.

Facebook Lets Members Go Public

Facebook is allowing members the option of going public by letting search engines crawl the pages if members opt-in. The social network is working to boost numbers and popularity as other social networks are growing at a steady to fast pace; Facebook has grown 62.5% since May from 24 million to 39 million users. Next month Facebook says it will have a search box that will allow people to search for their friends and find their profiles.

I believe the CEO for SEO Metro, Gregory R. Roberts, will just stick to Spock.

Chinese Affiliates and U.S. SEO Firms

What begs the question IMO, is the ethical partnership of United States SEO firms with Chinese individuals and/or firms. The question originated with a discussion with a web designer in the northern part of the U.S. discussing how our Dallas SEO firm was hacked and the technique employed which was an underhanded attack, duplicating many pages that were attempted to be concealed within image and graphics folders.

Facts: Our Government is being hacked by the Chinese Authorities and can be referenced from many sources that do NOT need to be mentioned here.

1. Question? Why are our U.S. Companies allowed to do business with companies inside a threatening country?
2. Question? How are the U.S. Companies scrutinized and Chinese companies scrutinized before they can do business?
3. Question? How many of our U.S. businesses been attacked by Communists countries? (There must be statistics, our authorities are not that stupid.)
4. Question? How many times have our government and private companies been attacked by the Chinese in the last two years?
5. Question? What is our government doing to protect OUR interests here in the United States?

Our business is under attack and we are not discounting local SEO agencies that are dear to the Chinese and are partnering with communists.

FACT: SEO Metro is not partnering with any Communist Government!

Yahoo Purchases 5th Largest US Ad Network

Blue Lithium, the fifth largest advertising network in the United States, has be acquired by Yahoo.com, according to Blue Lithium's home page. The report states the transaction will allow Yahoo the ability to speed up its advertising, product and engineering road map along with allowing better measurements of performance-based campaigns on and off the Yahoo network.

Blue Lithium specializes in targeted-behavioral analysis which lets clients deliver the most effective banner advertising to internet users. The advertising network was purchased for a reported $300 million which is much more buying power than our small Dallas SEO company, although we will soon be buying advertising in the near future.

SEO Metro Partners with Dallas Bartenders

Dallas SEO firm SEO Metro teams up with Dallas Bartenders for a late move push to drive traffic in for the holiday season. Dallas Bartenders are now offering full catering services in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area 365 days a year. The beverage company is now partnering with a full catering service business to offer beverage services, to box lunches, to full-scale high-end service and food delivery that is offered in-house and on client premises. All food services, menus and alcohol drinks will be available year round and anywhere in Texas that alcohol is allowed.

"Dallas Bartenders are very excited to have the sky open to them as far as food, beverage and service delivery", according to Daniel Levarion who has interest in the business venture.

SEO Metro accepts the challenge as the holiday season is coming quickly and understands that fast moves need to happen in order to have success this fall and winter.

Yahoo Employs Search Suggestion

Yahoo is about to launch Search Suggest in the UK that assist users when a search query is typed. The US Yahoo search suggestion was launched last July in the United States and the search tool can be turned off by clicking "more" in the upper toolbar and then "Disable Search Suggestions".

I would be curious to see how many people actually use search suggestions as it appears to me to be easier to finish typing the query versus stopping or reading what is coming up beneath the search box and using the mouse or arrow buttons to scroll down and enter the suggested search.

Federal Search Engine Delaying

The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act is not being pursued in a timely fashion, according to the Washington Post's blog, The Trail. This should be of no surprise to anyone who is familiar with the Federal Government and its spending, credibility and accountability. The law states that the individual Federal agencies must make available all information regarding their funding and to what companies were funded so the information could be gathered where online searches would reveal Federal funding and the companies that were funded.

Presidential candidates were asked to sign a pledge that they would sign an executive order within the first 30 days of their Presidency to mandate all agencies to immediately work on presenting the information but only three candidates signed the pledge: Obama, Brownback and Paul. No reasons were given by the other Presidential candidates for not signing the pledge. The other candidates were reported by the Reason Foundation to have "dodged" questioning.

What will be interesting is to see what type search engine is used. The searches that are speculated to be in the top are for the agencies, FEMA, the Defense Department and Department of Transportation.

Google Changes Top Ad Placement Formula

Well, for all those that are dependent upon adwords for online sales should take notice that the formula has changed that puts ads above the natural Google results. Google's post reports, "the key change to the formula is how we consider price." They continue on about how the top ad was affected by the bidding of other adword buyers.

Google continues on about the quality of the ad that will effect the cost with the higher quality ad being able to deliver a lower cost. The actual minimum price is what it takes to allow ads to reach the top above the natural search results.

I believe Dallas SEO will continue 100% with organic search optimization and will not even consider the PPC campaigns.

Search Engine and Marketing News

Dallas SEO has added search engine and marketing news from SearchEngineLand to help readers and clients keep up with the latest industry news. The news is placed above other aggregated search engine and marketing news that will compliment the page and round out a comprehensive online marketing news source.

SEO Metro will still be writing and posting the most important and interesting stories as search industry stories develop and will archive the news on a monthly basis.

Choosing SEO Companies

What is amazing to me is to see PR announcements that so-and-so chose SEO company, "We Don't Know Nada About SEO". This particular SEO company, is actually an embarrassment to the whole SEO community, will remain anonymous. They define organic search engine optimization as 'attaining higher results on search engines by making the pages more search engine friendly'. What!?!? So the more search engine friendly the higher the placement on the results pages? Poppycock.

This website is obviously an off-shoot from some web design company who thinks they know SEO and are experts at SEO, how typical. This particular website has no web presence at all and this is the first time I have seen the site after viewing many local companies. The only way they could have gotten the SEO contract is through doing the web design for the company who is just entering the internet market for the first time.

If the company that accepted their SEO services would have the wit just to Google and try to find the company they would never be found to obtain the job. Absolutely incredible. In fact, the press release had a link back to the company with the text Dallas SEO, however, only Dallas was the link, not the entire keyword phrase Dallas SEO.

Here are some stats using a whois service on the SEO company:

1. Title Relevancy: 83%
2. Description Relevency: 61%
3. SEO Score 87%
4. Images: 44 (missing 43 alt tags)
5. Links: 50 (no external links)

Next time the hiring company should choose a real Dallas SEO Company.

Google Buying and Investing in Chinese Companies

Dallas SEO reports that Google is buying one or two Chinese companies and will invest in about 4-5 others. Google is number 2 in the Chinese search engine market behind Baidu.com. The companies being purchased are unannounced along with the technologies the companies are involved in.

Google executive express confidence within the next several years that they will be in the number one position for search engine marketing in China.

Google Saving Energy

Recently a friend pointed out that the white background to Google used more energy that a black background and that Google had come out with a solution using a dark background on their search results called "Blackle". I actually thought it was a spoof until I Googled for Blackle and found it to be true. Below the search bar is the amount of watts/hour saved by people using Blackle. I think it may be a bit subjective to actual users machines but still very interesting and hey if we can save energy then why not?

Our Dallas SEO company will bookmark and use the dark background to save energy for the company plus it is just a little less pollution so we should help the environment with less pollution to fuel our computers.