In the past few weeks, MSN has been doing a lot of changes to its search algorithm and adding features to its SERP (Search Engine Result Page).

For one, MSN Live Search is now a bit more interactive to a user’s search giving more options like adding a news link and asking if it was useful.

These little extra features are a nice little addition to their search engine;however, its the other addition to ther search engine results that are a bit disturbing.

MSN Live search has now decided to that they will decide what its users can search for and even change the original keyword used in a search by a user.

For example, if you do a search for “online marketing services” you will get this message:
MSN Live Search Results for

Obviously, MSN Live Search has decided that this keyword is not i...

And so, after being in business for less than 4 months, BlindMonkeyMedia is having to expand due to the high volume of demands.

this past month has been very busy for our Company since the number of work request has increased tremendously. Due to this, we are not able to take on all of the request and we actually had to charge higher rates in order to filter out the requests.

This led to us partnering with RemediosGraphic.com, a company that offers, Diseño grafico costa rica or graphic design in Costa Rica We have known the owner of that company for a few years and we chose him as a partner to take on some of the graphic and website design workload off of our shoulder because he makes excellent work in a timely manner.

At the moment, we are handling the SEO work demand load but we are sti...

Looks like Google just did a page rank update last night. Nice to know that all of our hard work paid off and after 3 months of work we now have a google page rank of 3!

Next update should be in about 4 months and our goal is to get a pange ranking of 5!!!

Wish us luck

Today I was making the BlindMonkeyMedia SEO report when I noticed a trend. We pretty much increased in ranking for all of our target keyword On Google.com, Google.co.cr and Yahoo.

Actually, we own the 95% of all of our keywords for the Costa Rica Market where we rank in the top 5 for all of our keywords except for 3 keywords and out of those 3 keywords we rank in the top 2.

On the MSN side however, we have lost our ranking big time. Meaning going from the first SERP to not ranking at all. I am assuming MSN Live Search saw this post, http://blog.blindmonkeymedia.com/?p=112 and got pissed at us.

So I just want to say, Sorry MSN Live Search. We didn’t mean to insult you. We were just stating historical facts...

If you’ve been to Las Vegas lately (I went there in August for my honeymoon), then you know how bad the casino industry is doing right now. It’s the same in Atlantic City, and now lawmakers there are trying to overturn the online gambling ban in the courts.

The lawsuit seeks to allow all 50 states legal access to online gaming, which would of course be subject to tax.

Those close to the online gaming industry know that online sports betting, as well as online poker and online casino games, would bring in huge revenues to the US government, especially in a time when government is trying new raise to improve revenue.

While not expected to change, hopefully this lawsuit will remind people what type of revenue source online gaming is...