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Google looking to join the legions of SEO companies

It's been reported that Google is considering starting their own SEO company. This, if true, would be potentially massive news for the SEO industry.

Serena Shapero over at Newswire has stated that Google intend to get their SEO business off the ground by early May. Allegedly, Google's SEO team would consist of about 100 employees, clients could be charged up to $25,000 a month and Google will have a team of SEO robots* to deal with poor rankings.

Allegedly, Google will promise only ethical practices but how many giant corporations play nice? If Google does jump into the SEO pool they will have a monopoly of the SEO industry and it will be nowhere near as fun as the game.

Small SEO businesses will surely be put out of business and probably some medium sized ones too. Will the SEO companies just take their business to Yahoo and Bing? Unlikely, seeing as how popular Google is with the general public.

You can't handle the truth!

Okay, so enough of the scare mongering, is it likely to happen? SEO has been around for a while; if Google was going to do it surely it would have by now. Also, Google offers a lot of information to users so they can produce sites with high quality SEO, surely they wouldn't bother if they had ever considered becoming an .

Some highly regarded colleagues of mine (and one I'm indifferent to) offered their take on the report. "Where's the proof?" was retorted to the Newswire article. I've had a quick look on Google's blog and if they were going to start a business in early May wouldn't there be (at least) a bit of advertising? Another colleague said "this would just be like buying space in Adwords only you pay $25,000 for it instead of a few pounds per click".

So, will Google be starting an SEO company? Don't hold your breath (that's just good advice for most situations).

By the way, if you're interested, the state of Oregon is incorporating Google Apps into the education system.

*Quite probably not true.

Are you currently on an online dating site? If not then you should be. Online dating is rapidly becoming the number 1 way to meet and find people to date - and for good reason. For one, it's fast. Never before could you go to a location and approach multiple women at once. But with online dating, you can do such a thing.

You can email a variety of women, improve your confidence, and re-invent your self image when it comes to women and dating. You don't have to take the back seat to offline rejection and poor results with women. You can do something about your love life and finally have success via the means of online dating.

When doing it however, it's important that you choose your sites well. There are alot of sites that have attractive women on them, but they won't necessarily yield you the best results. One thing that you will want to stay away from is sites. These sites are full of women who aren't truly serious about finding everlasting love. What you will typically find on these sites are women that are just looking for friendship, or women who are indecisive about what they're looking for in their life.

You don't have to fall victim to this. Alot of the women on these sites don't complete their entire profile and some of the women that you see on the sites aren't even real. That's right, they aren't real. This isn't to say that all paid dating sites have real members, because they don't, and I can attest to this personally.

I remember signing up to a well-known dating site and contacting a wide variety of women in my area. I soon came to realize that alot of these women aren't actually members of the website. They were just images of models used to trick men into signing up to the dating site. This is something that you have to look out for in the online dating world so be careful when doing online dating.

It's probably in your best interest to stick to well-known dating sites such asorin the beginning. After you've gotten the hang of the online dating game and want to take things to another level, you should consider migrating over to a niche or specialized dating site. There are a ton of these dating sites out there so you will have to be wise in your decision as to which one to sign up for first.

There is one site that offers a trial called Mate1.com that is pretty good. I have used them myself in the past and they have given me excellent results. I met someone out in California via this website and met her in real person. She was an excellent woman and unfortunately our relationship ended because of something miniscule - and nothing related to how we interacted with each other.

All in all online dating works it just takes some time to get used to.

Good luck with your online dating efforts and finding the perfect woman for you.

is an important part of web development. A good quality code enhances the websites' visibility, accessibility and search engine friendliness. Today when we have started spending most of our time on Internet. Almost all business people want to have their web presence in order to tap high potential of Internet market. In all this, you people, as web designers are in high demand. All the time, they are occupied with their projects. Sometimes they get overburdened and stressed due to work. At this particular point, they feel the need to outsource their PSD to HTML requirements. The process of converting design into web page is difficult and time consuming. You have to have mark up service provider to assist. But if you are still not convinced that you should hire a service provider for your mark up requirements, look below to understand why you need to outsource your PSD to HTML conversions:

1) Access to Latest Technology and Skilled Programmers: PSD to HTML conversion requires in-depth knowledge of new and latest technologies and brilliant skills in programming. If you think that you lack skills in this field, then you must hire a service provider because coding of a website is really an important step so it should be done with due diligence. Skilled programmers know the tips and tricks to code a website in such a way that it becomes search engine friendly and easily accessible to the users.

2) Enhance the Quality and hence Productivity: Skilled coders enhance the productivity by delivering quality coding of websites. Since your work is reduced, you feel less burdened and less stressed. Now you can meet all your deadlines without any worry. PSD to HTML converters are meant to ease the tasks of the web designers and to show them how to do things easily and of high quality.

3) Additional Benefits: There are several benefits which you can leverage by hiring PSD to HTML service provider. That include: Cross Browser Compatibility, Semantic Coding, Pixel Perfect coding, Hand Coded mark ups, and obviously service support of providers at all points of time. Also the perfect coding makes the website search engine friendly.

4) Saves Time and Reduce Your Stress: Since the coding part is done by another party so it saves a lot of your time and you too from being overburdened. The web designers can now concentrate on their core competency. Usually the outsourcing firms are located in offshore areas, so you can make profit out of the lower production costs.

After you decided to take the service of PSD to HTML service provider, next step is to select the best suitable service provider for yourself. PSD to HTML conversion service industry is growing at fast pace. There are so many players in the market. But you need to be very careful while choosing one. You need to see the experience, the particular provider is having in this field, its work samples, pricing, clients list and the kind of service/customer support, it is providing. After evaluating the service provider on all these parameters, you select the best one for you.

18 - The magic number?Search engine optimisation experts who have studied page rank vary in their calculations, but there is a magic number in the range of 18 - 20 that they come up with. What is this magic number?

Well, it is the number of themed links from a page ranked page that you need to get the same page rank on your site. So get 20 links from PR4 mortgage pages and your own mortgage site should also get a PR4, for example.

There are loads of "ifs" and "buts"! The page should have no more than 50 external links and should be closely themed. More external links increase the number, less decreases it.

Does this hold water?Does this work? Well, looking at the page rank calculation in a very basic way and you receive 85% of a share of the page rank of the pages that point to you. So if 1 PR4 page points at you and that only has your external link, then you get 85% of that PR4 (about PR3.4). If that page has 2 external links, then that share is halved.

Apply that to a link exchange directorySo look at the typical link directory page. Say 40 external links on the page would mean that on a PR4 page, the links value is worth 1/40th of 3.4. But most links directory pages are lucky to have even a PR1!

Looking at the maths again, if you accept 100 exchanges with links directories with page rank 1 pages and each has 40 outbound links, then you receive back 85% of 1/40th of a page rank of 1, 100 times. Work that out and it seems quite good - it would indicate a low Page Rank of 2.

Getting a Page Rank of 2Going back to the magic number 18, the same experts also state that about 105 links are need to get a page rank of 1 above the donating site. So 105 links from PR1 sites should give you a PR2 - agreeing with the formula calculation above

Surely double that number for a PR4? Well, actually no. The experts calculate that again the magic number goes up by a factor of around 5 to increase the ranking to the next stage, so around 500 - 600 good PR1 links give a PR3 and 2,000 to 3,000 PR1 links give a PR4.

What does a link exchange need?So, what does this mean for the average link builder? Well, trying to find a good number of links from directories is difficult enough, especially when the pages must be themed and must be at least PR1. When many link directory pages are less than PR1, the maths really gives us huge figures and makes frightening reading.

But, the result is that to get a decent page rank through link exchanges would require literally thousands of link swaps through highly themed sites with at least a page rank of 1 with no more than 40 external links per page. Difficult enough to find a couple that fit this description. But 3,000 of them?

I think not. That is why I just delete every link exchange request without looking at them.