Say hello to the new generation of leadership at Yahoo! His name is Scott Thompson.

Does the name sound familiar? It might, because Scott Thompson was once the president of PayPal. Part of the reason why Yahoo decided to snatch up this guy in the first place was that they say he was responsible (at least in part) for doubling PayPal's active user base from 50 million to 104 million. That's a pretty big deal, especially since Yahoo's user base is probably going in the other direction.

On the financial side, Yahoo saw a 5 percent decline for its overall revenue in the third quarter 2011 (compared to the same time the year before) to $1.1 billion. Sadly, the net earnings dropped a much larger 26 percent year-over-year to $396 million. That's not good and the financial savviness of Thompson could turn that ship around. At least, that's what they hope.

According to Search Engine Watch, the focus is to "quickly evaluate its sprawling products and kick them into shape to boost appeal to suitors and investors." Thompson says that they need to balance "value between consumer experience and the advertisers."

Yes, it's true that Yahoo is still relevant in some parts of the world, but Thompson certainly has a huge task ahead of him. If you were hired as the new CEO of Yahoo, what would be your strategy moving forward?

For those of you who are not aware, the SEO competition is still alive and kicking and we will soon to be announcing the winners for the Top Author Competition on GSEO.net.

Also it just goes to show you that we are not concerned of how many blog posts that are made but more on the quality of the blog posts that are made and how unique and informative they are.

The winners will all receive lifetime memberships. So far we have rounded the winners up to 7 final contestants:

1. Cori Padgett

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2. Zubin Kutar

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3. Cijo Abraham Mani

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4. Daniel Lew

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5. Srihari Reddy

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6. Mike Van Der Heijden

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7. Peter John II Yap

The Internet's Bad Neighborhood

Hello everyone!

It's been a long time since I posted here few months ago because I am a very busy man right now. So I'm going to discuss on how internet is for better or worse? What comes into our mind when we are using the internet. There are basic things that we look forward to when we use the internet:

* For researching purposes

* For SEO (search engine optimization)

* To make money online

* For business purposes

* To make new friends online

* To play games

* To accept payments online

But what about those things that are worse in the internet?

* To spam

* Using blackhat SEO method

* To hack other's identity (passwords, full information, bank account)

* To spread malware and other forms of viruses

* To plagiarize other's eBook and articles

If you have the opportunity to choose which among them is truly legitimate and very useful in the internet right now. Even grade school children can understand when they read this article of mine. So is the internet for better or for worse? Definitely it's both, because it can be used for good and bad purposes, but when you are bad like a thief or a devil, don't ever use the internet or even stop playing around the computer itself, or else your computer might get destroyed as well.

So please use the internet in a better way, not on the worse way. :)

I have noticed on many blogs that there are actually spam comments that are spreading and invading tons of blogs that exist right now. Most of the spammers in my own thoughts are using some form of blasting software that can blast spam comments to random blogs whether appropriate or inappropriate. Their strategy is to automate their detail insertions like name, location, e-mail, URL and the body of the comment that says "Nice post. Keep it coming", or "Thank you".

Blasting softwares in the internet right now are just making profits from the spammers who are buying their software just to do the "Black Hat" thing. But according to my friend, it was not recommended and the success rate was less than 30% to 40% when you submit your links to those blogs. Most of the blogs right now are setting them under moderation or it needs them to register when posting a comment, along with their supporting link.

As for one of my friends, he has a blog and he noticed at least four to five comments a day, 90% of them were spam and stupid type of comments. He didn't mark it as spam, instead he immediately trash it. However, he still allows anonymous users to comment on his blog posts. But then, starting next week he will change his settings to let them register first before writing a comment.

You cannot outsmart the owners of the blogs you would like to spam, because they're always been notified when someone commented or registered in your blog. Blasting spam comments using software is not good, it's better if you do it manually and in a hard way. Right now, I'm no longer using a software, instead I do this manually.

If you think you want your site to be loved by search engines like Google, is it really possible? We'll, study shows that Web 2.0 sites are now being loved by Google because they made them prove that their Web 2.0 site is SEO friendly. SEO friendly sites like Web 2.0, web directories, social media and social bookmarks are being loved by Google for a long time.

So how can our site be loved by Google?

* Blogs and eCommerce sites are not really loved by Google. They can be spammed around the other do-follow sites and other Web 2.0 properties, with suspicious keywords to promote and compete in the Google search results. We use Web 2.0 sites as a start since on the search results, Web 2.0 sites are mostly on the top of the mountain.

* Create unique content and show Google that you are the original author of the content.

* Make your website or blog look attractive. Wordpress, Blogger, Joomla or Drupal are the best portals for you to make it attractive by installing widgets, ads, etc.

* Do SEO in a white hat way. For Web 2.0 sites, they can be applied both white hat and black hat way because they are just feeders. But in order to be safe from being suspicious, make use of white hat techniques.

* Be original to yourself. If you think you know what it means, you know what to do than just being a copy cat.

So I think you already learned on how Google loves our website. Just make them proud that you deserved to be a real legitimate SEO specialist like anybody else. As for me, I want Google to be forever loved for my own blog.