You’re the Boss Blog: Does This Service Provider's Web Site Make You Want the Service?

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I decided to try an experiment: What would happen if we turned off Google AdWords? Would search-engine optimization keep the phones ringing?

Zacks.com submits: Yahoo’s (YHOO) share in the Web-search market grew nearly half a percentage point in July, but Google Inc. (GOOG), despite losing the ground to Yahoo, maintained its dominance in the U.S.

An example of what search results would look like.

Edward Harrison submits:Back in December I wrote an article on how site scrapers were gaming Google's (GOOG) search algorithm in order to make advertising money from articles that they scrape from RSS feeds.

Trefis submits: Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), which makes money through contextual search advertising, has seen its ad revenue per 1,000 searches (RPS) fluctuate in recent years. Our estimates have indicated that Yahoo’s RPS grew until 2008 and has since declined due to the weak ad market.

The e-mail reinforces something multiple commenters to my earlier posts have said: sick workers will cost you, and the cost can be substantial.