Volume IV - Issue 2004-09-07

 
The e*Vision eZine is specifically focused on the online marketing of information products. I hope you find the information presented in The e*Vision eZine valuable, and that it helps bring you online success.
 

In This Issue

May I buy YOU a Dinner?

A Major 'Shift' Is Happening To Internet Marketing

Google Slavery...Old Habits Die Hard - Kirk Bannerman

eBook of the Week - Create Your Web Site in 5 Days

 

May I buy YOU a Dinner?

WORLD INTERNET SUMMIT - USA is just around the corner. I am leaving  in a week... so Excited!

If you have already registered to attend this event and are also one of the subscribers of my e*Vision Newsletter, then Congratulations!!!

I would like to Personally invite you to a dinner with me and some other friends. Yes, It's Free for you! All you have to do is to drop me a line before the event and give me your name and email address so that I can contact you and let you know when and where the dinner is going to be.

It would most likely to be in the Evening on Saturday 18 September... while I have to find a suitable location when I get there.

I can't wait to see you there after these many years!

If you haven't registered for this unique Internet marketing event... this would be your very last chance to do so... check the details here:
http://www.worldinternetsummit.com/usa/evision.html

If you can not make it to Nashville this time around...

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A Major 'Shift' Is Happening To Internet Marketing You Can Either Embrace It, Or You Can Watch Your Competitors Gain An Advantage Over You! http://www.trafficsecrets.com/thua
 

Featured Article

Google Slavery...Old Habits Die Hard
by Kirk Bannerman

For the first few months after Yahoo decided to go their own way with natural search (and MSN decided to get serious about the search business), the search results provided by those two could only be described as bizarre. Enough time has now passed that the dust has somewhat settled and there are three main (from a traffic standpoint) sites for quality natural searches.

The term "natural search" is to distinguish true searches, as opposed to paid advertisements which appear in the search results for many search engines these days. I guess you can't really fault the search engine companies from wanting to make some money (actually, BIG money) selling ad space, but the debate over the virtues of natural search versus paid advertising search is something that could take up a very large book and still have no clear resolution...much like arguments revolving around religion or politics.

Like most people that have been working as online home business entrepreneurs for a few years, I was strongly conditioned to the need to "feed the 800 pound gorilla" of the search engine world. Basically, "if Google didn't love you", it was very difficult to get any meaningful natural search traffic to your website. Since Google was actually the search engine that was serving up the results for most of the popular search portals, if Google didn't look kindly upon your site and rank you well, you would not be ranked well for most of the high traffic search sites on the Internet.

However, the search landscape changed dramatically early in 2004 and things have been very fluid and interesting since that time. Its not that Google has stumbled, or become ineffective as a search vehicle, its just that major players like Yahoo and Microsoft (via MSN) have decided to make a major thrust into the search business.

Having been firmly conditioned (since shortly after 1998) that Google was the "supreme deity of search engines", I took the highly publicized search entries of Yahoo and MSN with more than the proverbial "grain of salt".

Throughout a very recent two month period, one of my websites occupied the #5 position on Google, Yahoo, and MSN for a very popular and important (at least in my line of business) three word search term. This situation provided an opportunity to measure the current popularity of each of these three search providers.

If asked "before the fact", I would have guessed that Google would still be the overwhelming #1 search choice and that Yahoo and MSN would be distant #2 and #3 choices. Therefore, I was somewhat surprised by the results that were tabulated during this recent 60 day period.

For the period in question, the search popularity results were as follows:

Google: 34% Yahoo: 31% MSN: 20% All others: 15%

Granted, the above results are for a single search term over a particular 60 day time period, but the results clearly show that Yahoo and MSN are already important players in the search business.

Webmasters that stick to the old ways and focus entirely on Google are missing out on a lot of search traffic these days if they are not also well ranked by Yahoo and MSN.

Kirk Bannerman operates a successful home based business and coaches others seeking to start their own home based business. Visit his website at Legitimate Home Based Business for more details.
 

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A Major 'Shift' Is Happening To Internet Marketing You Can Either Embrace It, Or You Can Watch Your Competitors Gain An Advantage Over You! http://www.trafficsecrets.com/thua
 
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All the Best, until next time!

Tom Hua
tom@ustoday.net

 
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