A number of SEOs were hardly fazed by the news that AOL’s Patch Network of intensively local content platforms designed to pick up where the big vendors left off is a financial failure. That is the popular scuttlebutt floating around the web these days anyway. If the rumors are true, and AOL vehemently denies Any [...]
AOL’s Patch.Com Offers Scant Hope to SEO Writers
December 20th, 2011AOL and Google Still Buddies
September 5th, 2010Back five years ago, Cnet announced the complex agreement that AOl and Google came to: “Google will invest $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner’s America Online unit as part of a partnership that expands their existing search engine deal to include collaboration on advertising, instant messaging and video. Google also is [...]
Is AOL Circling the Drain?
June 4th, 2010Is AOL Selling Out at Long Last? And if so – to Whom? Rumour has it that AOL, despite massive changes over the past year, is frantically trying to unload themselves pending the end of their search deal with Google. According to the WSJ: AOL Inc. Chief Executive Tim Armstrong said his struggling Internet company [...]
Google Traffic Stats
May 27th, 2010According to a recent study done by Chitika, the top spot in Google gets twice as much traffic as the number 2 spot, and three times as much as third place. The research report, called “The Value of Google Result Positioning”, reveals that: “The top spot drove 34.35% of all traffic in the sample, almost [...]
An Unmerry Christmas for AOL Employees
December 25th, 2009AOL is slashing staff in preparation for the new year. The recent spin off from Time Warner Inc apparently came with a few conditions, and restructuring was one. Unfortunately, in this case restructuring means that a significant portion of AOL’s workforce is being kicked to the curb. According to the official Form 8-K filed by [...]













