Comments on: Yahoo to acquire MyBlogLog

By: Bilalseo

Bilalseo — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:08:51 +0000

I’m Search Engine Optimizer and Internet Marketing expert. How can I write articles for SEJ. Please help me out.

By: Loren Baker, Editor

Loren Baker, Editor — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:15:01 +0000

Dave, and let’s not forget the brains and talent Yahoo is acquiring via this deal.

By: loren

loren — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:48:47 +0000

scott, will be checking it out soon.

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:49:34 +0000

If weâ€™re so cool, whereâ€™s the Search Engine Journal community? :)

Don’t look at me, I just started here :P

Loren – good point.

By: BizzyBizzy

BizzyBizzy — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:06:59 +0000

I think the reason behind the recent Yahoo acquisitions isn’t any more complex than, these sites/services are making money but the companies are too small to go public. The Yahoo stock has suffered, horribly over the past year, down nearly 40 percent. By adding revenue, Yahoo adds to their stocks bottom line valuation based on multiple * earnings.

So, for example, when Google purchased YouTube for 1.65 billion, the company added millions in new revenue to Google’s bottom line and their stock increased in value by nearly $25 Billion. (make sense now)

With the rate at which the Google Management is selling their shares, they made their money back within the first couple weeks after the acquisition.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:46:13 +0000

This will be great for Yahoo! I hope that they will be larger than Google…I love Yahoo ;)

By: Scott Rafer

Scott Rafer — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:09:30 +0000

If we’re so cool, where’s the Search Engine Journal community? :)

By: Muzammil

Muzammil — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:50:24 +0000

I’d like see to Yahoo! buyout Last.fm and intergrate it with Yahoo! Music that would make a lotta sense.

Yahoo! please acquire Last.FM!

By: Loren Baker

Loren Baker — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:49:49 +0000

Ahmed, I could totally see future integration of MyBlogLog into the Yahoo Publisher Network as an alternative stats system for smaller publishers and bloggers.

Ideally, the existing YPN ads could track referrals, comments and RSS aggregator views for bloggers; giving more value to YPN for bloggers and perhaps growing the adoption of their contextual ad network.