Finally Jerry Yang steps down. What does this mean for us Search people? I am hopping that whoever steps up to the plate will be able to use Yahoo to fight out the monopolistic practices by Google and give us more options. No MORE Google PPC Blackbox!

Here is a list of top 5 things I would want Yahoo to do to compete with the Google and give search marketers more to work with.

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Secret Behind AdWords KW Suggestion Tool That Google Does NOT Want You to Know

A few months back Google released search volume as part of their Keyword Suggestion Tool. SEOs and Online Marketers were very excited about this development. Not since Yahoo’s Overture tool have we been able to see the search volume for the major search engines. Sure there are services like Wordtracker, but lets face it their data has nothing in comparison to what the big G can give.

The problem is what most people do not realize is that Google is flat out misleading you about the search volume.  Any SEO who has finally attained that first position and does not get even 1/10 of the traffic promised by this tool knows exactly what I am talking about.

Here is the secret behind the Keyword Suggestion Tool

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Google has released yet another “free” product whose goal is to gather more user data, and create its own internet. This time around it is the Google Browser aka Google Chrome. Here is why I am so upset that Google has released another free product that will make them a boat load of money while screwing everybody else, in this case Firefox.

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I am blogging to you straight from the heart of Russia from a little town called Murmansk.

First, yes it is damn cold here, but not as bad as you would think. Second, yes it doesn’t get dark till about midnight in these parts. Moving on to international search…

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Recently I visited the Affiliate Summit East and got to meet some Black Hat SEOs from WickedFire. I won’t go into a review on the summit in this blog, but I will talk about some interesting conversations I had with the black hats. First of all, I have to admit conferences like these are not great because of the things you “learn” but are great because you finally get to meet the people you read about. There is just something about shaking another persons hand that a blog, article, email, or anything else can’t top.

I considered myself as white hat as it gets. My goal was to grow a “legitimate” publishing business. I had a whole business plan laid out where I would hire staff writers and product blog style content. I figured with my white hat SEO tactics and original content it shouldn’t be tough to start making some serious scratch. Well I was dead wrong and the blackhats have helped me join the dark side. Let me explain white whitehat and blackhat are the same thing.

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