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Alan Bleiweiss | Forensic SEO Consultant | @AlanBleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss has been an Internet professional since 1995, managing client projects valued at upwards of $2,000,000.00. A noted industry speaker, author and blogger, his posts are quite often as much controversial as they are thought provoking.

Microsoft Yahoo 10 Year Search Deal : Live Blogging of Conference Call

Well the rumor mill can find new ground to breed in. This morning Microsoft and Yahoo held a conference call to announce their having come to an actual, bonafide ten year agreement to do business in the search arena. Bing will become the search engine that Yahoo uses, Yahoo will be the global sales force for BOTH company's premium advertising solutions, and everyone will live happily ever after.

Because this is such...

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The Internal Battle For SERP Supremacy

In my last article, 8 Key Points to Multiple niche Sites And Controlling Back Links, I cautioned that you need to be careful that a niche focus site might overtake the main site in the SERPs for a particular phrase. One question that came up in the comments of that article was how to prevent this. That led me to thinking about situations in the internal battle for SERP supremacy where...

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Cuil Meets Wolfram Alpha – Gives Birth To Google On Crack

Lately every time I turn around, another new search engine comes out that's supposed to be innovative and better than Google in some way or another. The latest announcement came from Google themselves, where they let the world know about the new Google Squared. Why Google would do this I can only guess is because their engineers have had a lot of free time on their hands. Why this is even...

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8 Key Points to Multiple Niche Sites And Controlling Back Links

Ask ten SEO professionals whether it's better to have all your content on one site or split it up, and you'll get eleven answers (yeah, I'm usually able to see both sides of things and offer both opinions accordingly!)… Yet under certain circumstances, it just makes a great deal of sense to go with multiple web sites. Done right, the payoff can be huge. It's a great way to control...