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Hello, I am Serge Thibodeau and I am a search engine optimization expert. My company is Rank for $ales and this is my personal search engine blog. This is where I give my personal comments, some general observations I make about the search industry as a whole, interesting SEO articles and topics that will interest anybody that owns a website and wants it to rank higher in the major search engines. This blog is updated daily and is said to be addictive. Welcome to Serge Thibodeau, Live. |
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My 2 featured articles for the week ending Jun. 28, 2008: 
Nine steps to better marketing for the search engines
Paying for inclusion in directoriesArchived blogs for the week of July 21, 2008 1434 - Jul. 21, 2008 - 10.39 AM EST More on Yahoo's shareholder saga... A little over a month ago, Wall Street raider Carl Icanh approached Yahoo's board and tried to convince its management to accept Microsoft's offer to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo. Icanh already is a major Yahoo shareholder, and would stand to gain if Microsoft's deal would go through. However, more Yahoo shareholders have banded together to form "The Yahoo Plan B Group". It's composed of 150 Yahoo stockholders that, together, directly own about 3.2 million Yahoo shares, and they are set to ask the current Yahoo board to accept a compromise executive team which will be composed of five current Yahoo Board members and four nominees from the Icahn group. Eric Jackson of Ironfire Capital and also the leader of the Yahoo Plan B said: “It’s become very clear over the last fifteen days that many Yahoo shareholders are very reluctant to support the entire list of Icahn nominees.” Mr. Jackson would then call on Plan B members to re-elect 5 current Yahoo Board directors which includes: Jerry Yang, Vyomesh Joshi, Robert Kotick, Maggie Wilderotter and Gary Wilson. While those nominated by Icahn would include: Adam Dell, Edward Meyer, John Chapple and Lucian Bebchuk. As for his reasons for the proposed board line-up, Mr. Jackson said: “Overall, we are confident that this new Yahoo board can effectively conclude a deal with Microsoft.” With all the turmoil that Jerry Yang and his current executive board have gone through in the past few months, some say that such compromise would seem rather bleak at the moment. Read more... Posted on Businessblog™  Sponsored by Marketing Trends.org Copyright © Serge Thibodeau. All rights reserved. All views and opinions expressed on this blog are those of Serge Thibodeau only and are not representative of any company listed. All slogans, trademarks, text or logo representation used or referred to on this blog are the property of their respective owners. | |||
