SEO Book Launches New SEO Toolbar

Needless to say, one of the most authoritative SEO books is Aaron Wall’s SEO Book, which provides professional knowledge about Search Engine Optimization that all SEOs should know. Now SEO Book launches a New SEO Toolbar. Aaron writes :

What would happen if you smooshed together many of the best parts of Rank Checker, SEO for Firefox, the best keyword research tools across the web, a feed reader (pre-populated with many SEO feeds), a ton of competitive research tools, the ability to compare up to 5 competing sites against each other, easy data export, and boatloads of other features into 1 handy Firefox extension? Well, you would have the SEO Toolbar.

This is a very good news in SEO industry. If you are serious about SEO, I mean if you want to make progress, you should make good use of this toolbar. You can download is at http://www.seobook.com/seo-toolbar

This is a very useful toolbar, it is very easy to install and use, so try it now!

Google Earnings (Third-Quarter) Break Analysts’ Predictions

Many Wall Street analysts’ ever predicted Google earnings will greatly decrease because of turmoil in the US economy, but the truth is quite different.

Google reported $5.54 billion in revenue for third-quarter, which represented a 31 percent increase over the same period last year. Net income was more than $1.5 billion. Google’s second-quarter revenue increased 31 percent to $5.54 billion, up from $4.23 billion for the equivalent period in 2007.

Here are some graphs showing Google earnings on Third-quarter 2008.

So now one thing is clear, that is, no matter how bad the global economy is, Google will still be the Internet’s juggernaut in both power and profits, this can’t be changed.

Congratulation to Google!

Google Page Rank (Google PR) Updates Today!

Today when I got up I noticed that Google Page Rank (Google PR) was updating again! Just as Mr. Matt Cutts predicted. Generally, Google updates PR every 3 months, but this time, it updates more frequently, some say Google is changing their algorithm, they need to test it, so they have to update Google PR more frequently. Anyway, this is not what we are concerning.

The bad news to me is some of my sites’ PRs decrease, don’t know what exactly happened on them, but I think there must be a good reason for Google to do that. I always have good impression on Google and their services, so I won’t complain on my PRs.

One thing is still for sure, that is, Google is still penalize those sites selling anchor links. As before, I don’t think this is a good action for Google, you know, selling links is a good marketing on internet, Google wants to change it, it may destory Google by doing this, so Google needs to be careful. Why do I say this? The reason is, anchor link is a paradox, Google says incoming links should be natural and related achor links, but how can we tell what is natural links, what is not? This is a paradox. Hope Google will realize this.

The Game Between Yahoo And Microsoft Is Over?

According to Microsoft’s statement, they failed to acquired Yahoo, they also said the game between them is over, they won’t acquire anymore. This is what they said, but I don’t believe.

It seems that Yahoo do want to sell themselves, so I think the game is not over, it will begin again sooner or later. Now it is the money issue, it means as long as they have a successful negotiation on money, Yahoo still sell themselves.

Now the surface thing is Yahoo is making some changes, seems they are going to beating Google and Microsoft, who knows what the truth is.

What do you think?

YouTube Gets a $799 Million Lawsuit

YouTube is in big trouble now, and they may face a lot of loss.

An Italian media company, Mediaset, throwing a whooping $779 million lawsuit against YouTube for allegedly distributing and using its audio and video files illegally.

Mediaset said that YouTube apparently has in its video database around 4,643 Mediaset-owned videos amounting to around 325 hours of broadcasting without getting paid for its rights. Mediaset is also claiming that with the number of hits that its videos are generating, the company is already running at a lost of around 315,672 broadcasting days. Here is YouTube’s response:

YouTube respects copyright holders and takes copyright issues very seriously,” YouTube said in an e-mailed response. “There is no need for legal action and all the associated costs. We prohibit users from uploading infringing material, and we cooperate with all copyright holders to identify and promptly remove infringing content as soon as we are officially notified.

We have known what the result will be, but now we can learn something from this case, that is, when you run your own video sites or any other kinds of site, please pay high attention on copyright, or you may be in lawsuit.

GoDaddy’s New .Me Domains Have Come Into Use

Now you can register domains with extension .me with GoDaddy, NetFirms.com also claim they provide such service. I tried some domains, but all of them are already registered! I can’t believe it!

The reason I can think is GoDaddy have reserved them and they are preparing to make big money by selling them. Is it true? Who knows.

To tell the truth, I like Dot Com, not Dot Me, so I don’t care.

Jason Gambert Attempts to Trademark SEO

Have you ever heard of Jason Gambert before? If not, pay attention please, because you’re likely to hear more about him in the future. This guy is trying to trademark the term “SEO” in the United States – and he’s on his way to winning.

The good news is, there are members of the SEO community trying to stop him, or at least slow him down. I hope they will successfully stop him.

What’s your opinion about this? Do you think it is reasonable to trademark terms like “SEO”?