Comments on: Yahoo Makes My Blood Boil, What About You? http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/ SEO SEM and the world of search marketing Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Bonnie Schwartz http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-103992 Bonnie Schwartz Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:07:51 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-103992 I just learned something new about this topic. If you are bidding on a brand term that has "stop" words, Yahoo can register the term as a brand term and it will no longer get stripped by their matching system. I just learned something new about this topic. If you are bidding on a brand term that has “stop” words, Yahoo can register the term as a brand term and it will no longer get stripped by their matching system.

]]> By: Bonnie Schwartz http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-103682 Bonnie Schwartz Sun, 31 May 2009 13:24:06 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-103682 Yahoo definitely makes my blood boil every day. If the name of my company is something like "out of the house" Basically, your post is saying there is no way to not come up for the term "house" by itself or any other slew of terms yahoo decides to match that too even if I set the term on standard. Yahoo definitely makes my blood boil every day. If the name of my company is something like “out of the house” Basically, your post is saying there is no way to not come up for the term “house” by itself or any other slew of terms yahoo decides to match that too even if I set the term on standard.

]]> By: SEO ROI » Playing SEO Defense; and Twitter Takes All Comers: Link Precap June 2009 http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-103497 SEO ROI » Playing SEO Defense; and Twitter Takes All Comers: Link Precap June 2009 Fri, 29 May 2009 12:03:33 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-103497 [...] Yahoo tees off another SEM, calls small customers “fools who we like to steal from.” [...] [...] Yahoo tees off another SEM, calls small customers “fools who we like to steal from.” [...]

]]> By: Crystal Anderson http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-102729 Crystal Anderson Fri, 22 May 2009 20:40:16 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-102729 Hi Gab - Isn't it crazy. You would think that Yahoo would realize if they help advertisers get better results, we'd spend more! Hi Gab – Isn’t it crazy. You would think that Yahoo would realize if they help advertisers get better results, we’d spend more!

]]> By: SEO ROI » Solid Reading http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-102612 SEO ROI » Solid Reading Thu, 21 May 2009 17:15:54 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-102612 [...] SEER Interactive show that Yahoo’s approach to revenue generation is to profit off advertiser ignorance. [...] [...] SEER Interactive show that Yahoo’s approach to revenue generation is to profit off advertiser ignorance. [...]

]]> By: Gab Goldenberg http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-102610 Gab Goldenberg Thu, 21 May 2009 17:12:59 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-102610 And this is why Google gets more ad dollars. They enable and help advertisers be more efficient, rather than hope to profit off their foolishness. If Yahoo keep this up, they'll go the way of the newspaper business, which has long had the same mentality of "profit on the back of ignorant advertisers who can't/don't measure ROI." I wrote about this at Mike Gray's site: http://www.wolf-howl.com/business-issues/3500-point-olympic-dive-web-follow-lead/ And this is why Google gets more ad dollars. They enable and help advertisers be more efficient, rather than hope to profit off their foolishness. If Yahoo keep this up, they’ll go the way of the newspaper business, which has long had the same mentality of “profit on the back of ignorant advertisers who can’t/don’t measure ROI.”

I wrote about this at Mike Gray’s site:

http://www.wolf-howl.com/business-issues/3500-point-olympic-dive-web-follow-lead/

]]> By: Crystal http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-102314 Crystal Tue, 19 May 2009 15:26:55 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-102314 hi ms danielle - sorry to hear your feel our pain too... unfortunate it has to be so frustrating.. maybe one day they'll come around! hi ms danielle – sorry to hear your feel our pain too… unfortunate it has to be so frustrating.. maybe one day they’ll come around!

]]> By: ms danielle http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-102194 ms danielle Mon, 18 May 2009 20:40:57 +0000 http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/yahoo-makes-my-blood-boil-what-about-you/2009/05/18/#comment-102194 i feel your pain. i cringe reading this article. like war flash backs i imagine. the sad part is that yahoo knows how far behind they are and they can't catch up. kind of like the american auto industry vs japan, they're years behind. also they do shady stuff like let big advertisers buy "natural" listings on page 1. *sigh* i feel your pain. i cringe reading this article. like war flash backs i imagine. the sad part is that yahoo knows how far behind they are and they can’t catch up. kind of like the american auto industry vs japan, they’re years behind. also they do shady stuff like let big advertisers buy “natural” listings on page 1. *sigh*

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