About us...
SearchEngineNews.com is a Planet Ocean Communications, INC. publication. First published in February 1997, and continued exclusively as a subscription based publication for the first 10 years, our primary focus has been to reveal cutting-edge search engine strategies geared toward providing search engine marketing professionals a ranking edge on search engine results pages (SERPs). During this time we have provided extensive coverage of only the commercially strategic, major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask, and MSN—as well as the dozen or so formerly major search engines that are now relegated to the annals of Internet history.
Even though our subscription base is stronger than ever, we are faced with the fact that the whole search engine market is rapidly expanding vertically. There is an ongoing emergence of significant secondary search engines that specialize in niche markets like Travel, Real Estate, Comparison Shopping, Education, Age Relevance and so forth. Clearly the time has come for us to broaden our focus to include non-subscription, ad-supported coverage of these important ancillary search markets. SearchEngineNews.com now stands at the threshold of Web 2.0, primed to become the premier information source of everything search engine newsworthy.
Our mission is now twofold. As before, we will continue to simplify complexity and make online marketing knowledge useful as we have been doing since 1997 for online business owners and search engine marketing professionals alike. These are our elite members who enroll to gain access to our exclusive search engine marketing reports that reveal ranking strategies within the indexes of the four major search engines–Google, Yahoo, ASK, and MSN. We take pride in on our ability to explain the details of complex topics in terms that are easy for the non-technical person to understand while, at the same time, holding the keen interest of professionals who are technologically skilled and proficient under the big tent of online marketing through search engines.
On a parallel course, we are poised to also assemble on a day to day basis material that is search engine newsworthy in the sense of a broader audience appeal. Doing so will serve the emergent and deserving secondary search markets that are quickly and increasingly becoming an important part of the overall consumer searchscape.
Our expertise stems from our assembled team of researchers and writers who geographically range from the East Coast of the U.S. to Hawaii. Combined, we bring over 50 years of search engine optimization and online marketing experience to the table. Some of us have been here since the beginning of the commercial Internet; circa 1995.
As a member of the knowledge-based community, we produce, promote and sell search engine marketing products and services.
Our guarantee is one of the most respected unconditional guarantees in any industry. And it applies to every product and service we offer.
Our customer service is second to none. We invite you to see for yourself how committed we are to your success — from the most basic Q&A, to an advertising solution, your search engine marketing educational needs, all the way to full search engine optimization and support.
Our people on the Planet Ocean team truly enjoy serving with enthusiasm. We know that our members, advertisers, clients, and readers form the four pillars of our success model. And we promise to always treat you with a high level of consideration and the respect that you deserve.
Highest regards,
Stephen Mahaney - President
Planet Ocean Communications, Inc.