It is evident that Microsoft wants to be a major player in the search game. Let me restate that, they want to be the #1 player in the search engine marketing game. They are not happy with being #3. To that end, they want to buy Yahoo, well not all of Yahoo, just the search engine portion of it. Why you ask? Well, because it seems that have hired the best minds on the planet, strike that, the universe, to come up with an absolutely brilliant strategy to take the #1 spot from Google. How, by purchasing the #2 guy Yahoo. So if they buy Yahoo, they become #1. Let's do the math: 2-1=1 & 3-2=1. Eeeeeasy! The best answers always are... so as you can plainly see, if they buy Yahoo Search, then they will become #1. You do see it right??

 

There are 2 types of search engine marketing. Natural search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising. These 2 methods are not enemies. In fact, they are friends. However, in most cases, search engine optimization is FAR LESS costly than having to pay-per-click. If someone offered you 2 options – option 1 pay a flat fee of $2,500 upfront for a whole year or option 2 – pay just a measly little $1 per click, which offer would you take??