2007

February 7th

Lake Area Webs joined the Pike County Chamber of Commerce.

February 8th

Lake Area Webs joined the Web Standards Group (WSG).

The Web Standards Group was formed to promote the use of international web standards as published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

February 17th

Spaghetti Dinner All you can eat! Sit down or take out, 4:00PM - 8:00PM
Good Shepherd and St. John the Evangelist Church
5th and Catharine Street
Milford, Pa.
570-296-8123

March 3rd

Pancake breakfast, 8:00AM - 12:00PM All you can eat, take out available also. Good Shepherd and St. John the Evangelist Church
5th and Catharine Street
Milford, Pa.
570-296-8123

March 8th

Milford Business Council Meeting
Dimmick Inn 5:30 p.m.

March 9th

Business Education Meeting
Pike County Chamber of Commerce office 9:30 a.m.

March 13th

Marketing and Internet Meeting
Pike County Chamber of Commerce office 8:00 a.m.

March 27th

Pike County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors Meeting
The Emerson House 7:30 a.m.

June 8th – 10th

Annual Milford Music Festival
The Annual Milford Music Festival will be held from June 8th to the 10th in the downtown Milford Area at various indoor and outdoor locations. Please check again for further information as it gets closer.

October 2007

Google implements changes to their search engine algorithm.

Google is the worlds largest search engine, with a corporate stock value of in excess of 200 billion dollars (Approximately 1/3 that of Microsoft Corporation). The company recently modified their search engine algorithm which has negatively effected PageRank of thousands of web sites world wide. While PageRank is a google invention in the first place and was not intended to be used for determining value of a web site many webmasters have used this ranking to determine the value of a page when it comes to placement of advertising links.

PageRank could be determined though a browser plug in to most of the major browsers. If a PageRanked page linked to an outside related web page it would give the receiving page a certain amount of credibility. That amount of credibility was directly related to the number of links on the page that linked to the related site as well as the number of links on the referring page as well.

The changes Google hasmade are being felt worldwide. For your convenience I have some links to recent news articles addressing their recent modifications to the algorithm.

Google algorithm tweak spooks WWW

Blog from Search Engine Watch

SEO RoundTable Forums article on Google Changes

SitePoints Blog entry on Google's recent PageRank changes