Search Engine Marketing encompasses a wide range of internet marketing activities – search engine optimization, pay per click, cpa, banner ad’s, etc. The main two are search engine optimization and pay per click. Just exactly what are each of these, what is involved with each, what kind of results can you expect, and is one better than the other? Come tonight to the US-75 Business Professionals Learning and Networking Group and find out as I cover all of these topics and more. Attendees will also be receiving a special gift, and be entered into a drawing for an even MORE special surprize..

Yesterday, Google announced it’s new search index, Caffeine. The premise behind Google Caffeine is that they can offer you MUCH fresher results, and that pages can be indexed at a MUCH faster rate that they’d previously been able to. According to Google “In fact, every second Caffeine processes hundreds of thousands of pages in parallel. If this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second. Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles.”

Is the NoFollow tag not working anymore?  When the nofollow tag was originally introduced in 2005,  you could use it as an easy method to preent passing PageRank to a URL to which you were linking to, thus allowing you to conserve the page rank for the remaining links on the page that you wanted [...]