Internet Marketing & SEO

YouTube.Com Google PageRank Drops to PR3

Monday, October 29th, 2007 | Google, SEO, Search Industry, YouTube | 5 Comments

YouTube.Com Google PageRank Drops to PR3 from PR8 and also
many webmasters and websites saw their Google PageRank going from 8 to 3.

www.Youtube.com PageRank 3/10 as of October 29th 2007 at 1:13 am.

DC: 64.233.161.19
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.161.91
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.163.189
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.167.104
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.167.107
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.167.184
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.171.18
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.171.19
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.171.81
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.179.19
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.179.107
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.179.115
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.183.80
Toolbar PageRank: PR0 (0/10)
DC: 64.233.183.84
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.185.100
Toolbar PageRank: PR3 (3/10)
DC: 64.233.185.115 › Continue reading

Yahoo! Mail - System’s Down

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 | Yahoo | 5 Comments

Well, I got that error while using yahoo mail!

Can’t talk now. System’s down.

Sorry for the holdup. Looks like a temporary glitch in our network has part of Yahoo! mail down, so you’re briefly without service. Rest assured the alarms are blaring in the basement and our team is working frantically to get you up and running ASAP. Again, the snag is on our end — so there’s no need for you to do a thing.

Back to it,
Yahoo! Mail Team

Its not good for yahoo in that competitive age.

Dot.Com prices go up October 15th, Verisign n registries raising rates

Saturday, October 13th, 2007 | Domain Names | 1 Comment

DotCom prices go up October 15th. Verisign and other registries will be raising rates for registrars on that date. The top-level domains being effected are .com, .net, .org, .info .biz, .us and .name. On Monday, most registrars will be directly passing that cost on to their customers. If you own over 100 domains, you can save over $100 by renewing earlier than your auto-renewal date. If you own over 100,000 domains, you can save, well, a lot of money. Most big portfolio owners pay for domains one year at a time. If a domain expires in 30 or 60 days, most registrars will renew it for their customer if they have selected the auto-renew function. The registrar will bill the same credit card that is on-file.

eNom has already announced their price increases for October 15th. From what I hear, most registrars that have expensive domains like Dotster will not be increasing their rates. If a domain is $15 retail, it most likely will stay $15. However Dotster’s other brand, MyDomain.com, that has its lowest rate at $6.62 for over 100 domains will raise its rates. In short, if consumers have a lot of domains, they should renew now.

eNom Pricing Tiers Old Domain Pricing Tier New Domain Pricing Tier
PREMIER $6.95/year $7.45/year
VOLUME $7.95/year $8.45/year
BASIC $8.95/year $9.45/year
ALTERNATIVE $9.95/year $10.45/year
RETAIL $29.95 /year $29.95 /year (no change)

http://www.enom.com/price-notification.asp

If you have a link to a registrar’s price increase page, please add it in the comments below and I will add it to the post. I have not been able to find price increase notifications very easily on many registrar websites.

UPDATE: The old price for DotCom to a registrar was $6.20 ($6.00 with Verisign+ $0.20 to ICANN). Now the price is $6.62 ($6.42 to Verisign + $0.20 to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)).

Bank at Google?

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 | Google | No Comments

I know Google is getting into a lot of areas, shaking up the ad industry, moving into the enterprise space with hosted apps (much to Microsoft’s chagrin), even betting on wireless and 700MHz spectrum. But banking?

Granted, Google offers Google Checkout as a payment method option to merchants and consumers buying online. And now Google in Malaysia is offering AdSense payments to be made through Western Union, according to the Ades blog That news was noticed by Steve Arnold, author of The Google Legacy and Google Version 2: the Calculating Predator, and pointed out to Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck.

“We believe that the AdSense system is capable of morphing into a quasi-bank, particularly in regions with less robust monetary systems,” Peck wrote in a research note Monday.

Citibank, look out!

From CNET News
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9788763-7.html

German official says ‘no’ to Google-DoubleClick deal

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 | Contextual Advertising, Google Adsense & Adwords, Internet Marketing, Internet News | 1 Comment

The data protection commissioner of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has come out against Google’s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick.

Such a merger would “lead to a massive violation of data privacy rights” for consumers in the European Union if the databases of the two companies were combined, says Thilo Weichert, data protection commissioner for Germany’s northernmost state.

In a letter to the European Commissioner for Competition, Weichert writes that search engines in general already violate consumer rights to “informational self-determination” by retaining data for so long, among other things.

A Google spokesman provided this statement: “We believe that this acquisition will increase competition and benefit both consumers and advertisers, and that it will ultimately be approved by government regulators.”

In response to concerns that the companies will combine their databases, Google and DoubleClick have pointed out that DoubleClick does not own, and has limitations on its use of, the data it processes for its publisher and advertiser clients.

In addition, the European Consumers’ Organization has lodged a complaint with the European Competition Commissioner, arguing that the merger would lead to a monopoly in the online advertising market, and Yahoo is challenging it there as well.

Some privacy groups in the U.S. oppose the Google-DoubleClick merger, and Microsoft testified at a U.S. Senate hearing last week that a Google-DoubleClick merger would be anticompetitive.