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CNet is being bought by CBS for $1.8 Billion.

Carl Icahn is going to stage a proxy fight to fire the Yahoo board - the Wall street Journal describes his interesting option play. Wouldn’t it be funny if he got a whole new board and then Microsoft said “No, seriously, we are not going to buy your PoS company anymore.”

According to this, analysis has shown that the presence of Tech stories on Digg has halved every year for the past 3 years. So what will the percentage of tech stories in most popular be in March 2009 compared with March 2008? If the current rate of halving continues it will be around 9%.

And shoemoney is calcanizing the SEO community with his Definition of SEO and beating the SEO is gonna be dead soon drum. SEO will die soon after people stop wanting to rank higher than they deserve to in the search engines. Never is a long time, but . . .

Blogging has been lite nonexistent this past week because my mental energy has been sapped. I let myself get a little fat lately and have take the proper diet and exercise steps to get back into shape. While it is effective for fat loss to be at a 2000 calorie per day deficit, it sucks for trying to think. I’ve lost 9 lbs in the last 12 days, but I feel like that’s been about 9 lbs of brain matter.

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Yahoo Glue pages are a new idea for search results that I think may get some traction. Check out some searches on yahoo India:

http://in.search.yahoo.com/search?p=banana
http://in.search.yahoo.com/search?p=football
http://in.search.yahoo.com/search?p=obama
http://in.search.yahoo.com/search?p=microsoft

It doesn’t suck!

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Let’s say you’re gonna buy a company. Wouldn’t one of the ways you choose to buy a company be based on what it’s gonna earn next year? They have a stat for that; it’s called Forward P/E. It’s the Market Cap of a Stock divided by How much the company is expected to profit next year.

A higher number means a more expensive company when comparing Apple’s to Apples. (Everyone still with me?)

GOOG and YHOO are arguably in the same business. What’s not arguable who is in a better position in the Industry. One is an 800 lb Gorilla, the other is Yahoo.

So even after this whole YHOO - MSFT debacle, for some reason the market thinks that YHOO should trade at Forward P/E (1 yr): of 43.52 while GOOG trades at a Forward P/E (1 yr) of 24.04.

Apples to Apples (or Pears to Pears so some dipshits don’t think I’m talking about AAPL stock), Investors value YHOO 79% higher than GOOG.

So . . . for the Universe to get back into balance, YHOO has to go to $13.61 / share, GOOG has to go to $1065 / share, or some combination of the two (like YHOO to $17.50 and GOOG to $833). Either that Jerry has to whip out that super secret sauce he’s been saving up to suddenly get Yahoo’s profits to start skyrocketing.

de’Nile ain’t Just a River in Egypt!

. . . it flows through wall street too. Some investors are still hoping or praying that MSFT is gonna up their offer and close the deal. They just can’t accept that this deal is deader than . . . umm . . . some really, really dead thing.

The other big reason the stock’s being propped up? Jerry Yang is putting his money where his balls are and is buying up $500 million of YHOO with his own wad.

It’s a Ballsy Move. Only time will tell if it’s a Brainy one too.

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Prediction #1: YHOO Plunges to about $19 per share Tomorrow (May 5th)

Prediction #2 : YHOO will never trade higher than the (inflation adjusted) $33 per share that Microsoft Offered.

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This SEO training module is exhaustive and replete with more useful graphics than you can shake a mouse at. Heat Maps, CTRs by ranking, insight and much, much more.

Enjoy!

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The full cnbc interview.

Excerpts on Youtube:

“I don’t think we’ve quite figured out the perfect solution of how to make money, and we’re working on that. That’s our highest priority this year.”

“We believe the best products are coming out this year. And they’re new products. They’re not announced. ”

On where to look for new business:

“Over the next three or four years, there’ll be more than another billion or so mobile phones added. Eventually our numbers indicate that there’ll be five or so billion mobile phones in a world of six billion or so.”

and

“the Internet is growing faster outside the United States than in the United States. Also advertising online growth rates are higher outside the United States than they are in the United States. You’ve got–and of course you have a weak dollar strategy–because the US has a very weak dollar–so that also helps. For all of those reasons, revenue outside of the United States should grow dramatically over the next while”

Why should customers spend more money on search?

“Because we earn it. Because you can measure it.“

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Via this article:

“Web spam is when somebody tries to cheat or take shortcuts so that their Web site shows up higher [in search results rankings] than it deserves to show up,” - Matt Cutts

Great definition.

This was good too:

“I’m struggling with what exactly to say,” said Cutts. “On one hand, Google knows a lot about spam. … On the other hand, I don’t want to disclose things that would benefit people that try to spam.”

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Price Of Oil When Bush took Office in 2000: ~$22

Price of Oil Today: ~$120

For an Oil Man, ya gotta admit:

Mission Accomplished!

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Twitter seems to me the biggest time sink since MMORPGs . . . with about the same amount of potential financial return per hour (about 40 cents).

Other than potentially spamming twitter through approved sites and then redirected links, I really don’t see myself ever using it. Log Spam? I guess it could be useful, but as far as using twitter as it was intended, it seems about as useful as facebook status updates, or about as useless as tits on a bull.

If I twittered, you could know instantly that I’m in a starbucks in Miami!

Or that I won / lost money on craps all week!

Or that I had dinner at X restaurants, and ate the Lobster!

All shit that you, frankly, shouldn’t give a shit about.

Twitter is the Internet Geeks solution to reality TV. If you’re not getting enough of your voyeur fix from Big Brother, twitter can fill that void. You instantly find out what any Webleb® (web celebrity) is doing, so long as they twittered it.

But seriously, why do you care?

Shouldn’t you be out there hustling and making money? Building websites, Getting links, and converting traffic?

When I wrote Do it Fucking Now, the IT was most definitely NOT twittering.

Disagree? Think twitter is something more than a pathetic waste of time?

Go ahead then - tell me why I’m wrong.

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Here I am on a cruise and on Vacation; using satellite Internet at 40 cents per minute and and about 12 kb/s. and someone decided that this week was a good time to launch a series of attacks on the seoblackhat.com

It started off Wednesday with a series of email attacks and turned into various DoS attacks later at night.

Good times. Good times.

Maybe this type of post is a bad idea because it gives the attacker some attention? I really don’t know.

Perhaps it’s because of some of the methods that are discussed and revealed on the SEO Black Hat Private forum? Maybe someone is unhappy about new competition or dilution of a method?

It’s really hard to say what the motive was.

We will, of course, do our best to track down whoever is involved and file a report with the FBI cyber crimes division or the local authorities of whomever we discover. Perhaps they won’t leave any trace, but if they do we will of course do our best to make the attacker face stiff finds and time in prison.

So, friends of SEO Black hat, keep you eyes and ears open for any bravado about this incident.

and Thank you again for your continued support and patience.

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