Microsoft Now Offering SEO Services?

[peter_d]

If you can't beat 'em, join em. Microsoft are teaming up with search marketing firm, The Search Agency, to offer SEO and SEM to small businesses.

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/m...-ethical/5766/

The Microsoft Office Live Small Business unit, which provides Internet based services for small businesses, partnered with The Search Agency to deliver search marketing services where The Search Agency will manage keyword advertising campaigns for Microsoft Office Live Small Business customers along with giving courses covering the basics of search engine marketing.

As Loren suggests - is there a conflict of interest here?

[scorpionagency]

Originally Posted by peter_d

If you can't beat 'em, join em. Microsoft are teaming up with search marketing firm, The Search Agency, to offer SEO and SEM to small businesses.

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/m...-ethical/5766/



As Loren suggests - is there a conflict of interest here?

""Cough""~~ Damn Monopolizing Corporate Mongers ~~""Cough, Cough""

[prashant vikram]

Now...now! This is something very very weird! Microsoft coming in search marketing would certainly boost the industry!

I see huge job openings in near future, in this SEO industry!

[coolguy27]

Nice information peter_d. Thanks... Microsoft is now entering the industry.. Great news...

[poksa]

I think they are all crap... they want to dominate all the money in the Web.

[Costin Trifan]

they want to dominate all the money in the Web.

can you blame them...?

[Manish Pandey]

Well online it's Google and I see nobody anywhere near them (except for the time if I open my own software company)!

[theawristocrat]

Thanks for sharing. This is very interesting.

[D3n!ss3_gÜrL]

yay! not a good news for small SEO businesses...

[DharmaConsulting]

Originally Posted by peter_d

If you can't beat 'em, join em. Microsoft are teaming up with search marketing firm, The Search Agency, to offer SEO and SEM to small businesses.

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/m...-ethical/5766/



As Loren suggests - is there a conflict of interest here?

wow i doubt this will get off the ground. MSN Live will go down hill

[Webfu]

Oh but wouldn't it be fun to see MSN's PR go back down to PR2 for a while.... I wonder what repercussions other SE's might put on them.

[Bernard]

So what happens when they get 11 clients chasing the same keyphrase and MSN can't get them all on page one of MSN/Windows Live?

the answer

[Manish Pandey]

^That's cool...

[scorpionagency]

I think MSN would receive allot of negative controversy & bad Public Relations if they go through with it, And Yes performing SEO services while Providing search engine results "IS" a conflict of interest.

At first I thought maybe a sub-contracted company with stiff contractual guidelines, but thats still conflicting & controversial.

Only way I can see around it is NO SERVICES AVAILABLE for MSN Engines... Or simply DON'T Do it....

Either way it's going to impact their Authoritarian presence dramatically - thus losing lots of Formerly trusting consumers votes. Seems to me it would be a catalyst for a downward plunge.

Greedy Corporations normally end up getting the brunt end of the stick in the end - Then comes mergers / buy outs / acquisitions / & hostile take overs (The corporate cycle).

[Manish Pandey]

Well that's what in their mind! They want to acquire some ground in the online industry.

[backgammonnn123]

Wow after this news i really want google to crush msn. lol

[Seo Madrid]

Well, we´re still waiting to see that Google do with Performics, the SEO and SEM agency that they bought when in the package of Double Click... The obvious reason is that it´ll be sold but we´ll see...