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The two heavyweight fighters of the online world, Google and Yahoo, remain locked in a titanic battle for supremacy, with each dominant in their key areas, according to a new survey from ChangeWave Research.

ChangeWave’s survey of 1,440 professionals showed Google is not only the primary online search engine by a huge margin (78% Google; 14% Yahoo), it is also the most popular toolbar in home browsers/applications (Google 38%; Yahoo 28%).

Yahoo, however, is far and away the most popular home page site, and it’s also the primary website for online news and information (Yahoo 32%; MSN 10%; CNN 8%; Google 5%). Importantly, more than three times as many respondents use Yahoo email (18%) as use Google Gmail (5%).

ChangeWave’s “Yahoo vs. Google” survey results show that the two online champions are embroiled in a slugfest across multiple product/service areas in their high-stakes contest for domination of the Internet. The results suggest the fight is far from over.

Both search engine behemoths are nearly identical in annual revenue: Yahoo generated $4 billion and Google $3.8 billion over the past 12 months. Yahoo still racks up the higher gross profit. However, based on Google’s strong 2005 stock performance, the savants on Wall Street are betting on Google to outperform Yahoo and the rest of the online pack. Read more

Search engines treat and evaluate http://domain.com , http://www.domain.com and http://www.domain.com/index.php seperately. So if you have incoming links to your root domain (domain.com) you are losing some great value of incoming links.

If you do a link building campaign, you can always use the same domain, but if there natural links coming to your site, you are not the one to decide which domain to link. This way, you will not have to worry about sharing the value of incoming links between root and www domains.

Is permanent redirect the solution?
Yes, doing a permanent redirect from your root domain to the complete domain will solve the problem.

Whoever types http://daily-seo.com will be permanently redirected to http://www.daily-seo.com . You can test it at our blog.

Code to add to your .htaccess file :
Just add this piece of code to your .htaccess file. If you don’t have an .htaccess file, you can create one in your root folder.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Replace domain.com with your domain name.

Next time if a search engine bot or a visitor follows a link to daily-seo.com they will be landing at www.daily-seo.com

Google Inc. took over the top spot as the most highly valued media company this week, surpassing Time Warner Inc. in just 10 months of trading as a public company.

Google’s share price on the Nasdaq rose another $2.18, or 0.75 percent, to close at $293.12 on Tuesday, an all-time high. Stock market analysts have suggested the stock could go as high as $325 or $350 a share.

With a current stock market capitalization of more than $80 billion, Google is now worth more than any other media company in the world. That includes Time Warner, created five years ago when AOL purchased Time Warner for $106 billion in a much-hyped combination of old and new media. Read more

Google has its new beta program Google Sitemaps Beta.

Google says:

Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.

With Google Sitemaps you get:

• Better crawl coverage to help people find more of your web pages
• Fresher search results
• A smarter crawl because you can provide specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes

You can use the Google Sitemap Generator to generate a sitemap for your site.

To make your site better and easier crawlable, it is always good to have a sitemap. With the Google’s new sitemaps beta program, sitemaps are becoming more important for better crawling, and search engine optimizing.

New study shows how poorly U.S. manufacturers use natural search engine optimization (SEO) as an online marketing strategy to generate new sales leads.

“U.S. Manufacturers Resist Natural Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Online Sales Leads,” prepared by Cleveland, Ohio-based Fathom SEO, covers such SEO topics as web site page titles and META descriptions, site architecture barriers and visible text.

The study, which includes META tag case studies and insights about keyword selection, also found that most manufacturing web sites include a reasonable amount of visible text that could be optimized with search terms – if companies make the effort. Manufacturers also avoid splash pages (with the “skip intro” button) and frame architectures that may limit rankings.

You may read the press release at eMediaWire .

Some of the owners of businesses I have spoken to do not even heard the term “Search Engine Optimization”. Some are familiar with PPC, and conducting PPC campaigns with terrible ROI rates due to the lack of SEM knowledge.

This study clearly shows how important both organic SEO and SEM markets are, and they are still very new for non-techie business people.

WebmasterWorld is hosting a search conference in New Orleans, LA during June 21-24.

Google is also sending 10 engineers to the conference, and this is the announcement about it at WebmasterWorld:

In an unprecedented move, Google is sending a team of engineers to support WebmasterWorld’s World Search Conference, being held in June 21-24, 2005. Conference delegates can get involved in roundtable sessions with the Google engineers on specific subjects of interest. In addition, the event will feature an invitation-only cocktail party where conference delegates can meet the engineers on specific subjects of interest and relevance.

All major search engine and SEO company representatives will be at the search conference.

Early registration is $499 and you can register at the door for $799.

Visit WebmasterWorld Search Conference Page for more information.

It was a busy weekend for SEO consultants, and SEO forums. Friday (27th of May) I have read the thread “There is not a PR update going on” at DigitalPoint Forums and found out that many sites started showing grey on the Google Toolbar PR check.

There were very early comments with the shock of the news by several forum members. One DP member joeychgo has stated “This is the end of Google Pagerank as we know it”, and many others agreed. I think it was an early assumption to make.

PR was not a major impact on my websites, but it was still an important indicator for many webmasters. As myself having a few web directories, I have understood that many webmasters still care about visual PR more than other factors.

I didn’t give it a deep thought, and I started checking by Google. I haven’t seen any official announcements nor press releases about the PR topic. Then I have started checking authority sites in SEO business, and could not find any proof that announced the end of visual Google PR.

Then I have answered the thread at DigitalPoint Forums by this sentence:

I don’t care about the future of PR but I’d hesitate before making certain assumptions without a scientific proof or actual announcement from google.

PR migt be gone for good, but I don’t like it when people make certain assumptions without any proof. It might even be a temporary glitch.

I had a chance to write about the updates here at the topic “Is Google Toolbar PR History?” . It is not a big deal at all, but I have received a few emails saying I was the first (maybe one of the first) blogger who wrote about it, and a few sites mentioned Daily-SEO about this blog entry such as this one .

As predicted by many Google PR was back and I have blogged “Google Visual Page Rank is Back” today.

Everything seems calmed down for now, we will wait and see if Google will have new surprises about the Toolbar PR.

Is toolbar PR important or not? Many webmasters discuss this question. I will write a detailed article about this topic this week.

This was a short summary of what happened with Google Toolbar PR this weekend.

I have read DP topic Google PR is back and went to check the visual page rank.

Yes, Google Page Rank is back. Maybe it was a glitch, maybe maintenance. But it is back right now.

Movement in different Google data centers were the reasons of many discussions during last couple of days. Now all the data centers show 0/10 PR for websites, and Google Toolbar is grey.

At first many thought it was a Google PR update after a Google backlink update, but then some started mentioning a rollback at google data centers, and now many think Google Toolbar PR is a history.

There’s a discussion at DigitalPoint about the end of Google Toolbar PR .

It is still early to comment on the situation certainly, but I am sure Google will come up with an announcement or the time will show if today is the end of Google PR.

I have never replied to a spam email in my life, and I have never sent any kind of spam from any of my sites. Lately, I have been receiving hundreds of link exchange requests from webmasters.

With the help of link building softwares out there, it is becoming annoying.

Here’s my advice to webmasters who spend hours spamming other webmasters for link exchange:

Quit spamming, and spend your time working on your site. People will link to you without the need of spamming.

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