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| UPDATED: 2007-09-11 |
 Yahoo Still Struggling To Please Shareholders 
By: Jordan McCollum 2007-09-11 Earlier this year, Yahoos corporate leadership saw a major restructuring, presumably in an effort to turn the tide of their fortunes. A month later, with Yahoos disappointing Q2 report, Jerry Yang said that there would be no sacred cows for Yahoo, especially over the next 100 days, which he hoped would be a critical period in turning the company around. The Wall Street Journal writes today about Yahoos grim progress thus far. The WSJ reports that at least one sacred cow was considered: "the Web-search-advertising business it built up at great expense in recent years. Under the scenario discussed by top executives, Yahoo would have outsourced that search-advertising activity " which places small text ads next to Web search results " to either Google or Microsoft Corp., the people say. One of these people says Yahoo raised the idea with Google. . ." "But one of the people familiar with the matter says Mr. Yang concluded that Yahoo needed to be the marketing operating system, providing advertisers with a full menu of online-ad options. Yahoo would have a hard time doing so if it outsourced search advertising, which represents roughly 40% of the U.S. online-ad market, one person says. Any discussion of outsourcing search ads has now cooled, the people familiar with the situation say." In some ways, its a chicken-or-the-egg argument. Yahoo needs a bigger audience to command higher CPC and revenues from search advertising, and they need more revenue (presumably from search advertising) to grow like Google did. But outsourcing their paid search to Google doesnt seem like a great way to beat or even catch up to the search giant. The WSJ expects no major announcements from Yahoo before those 100 days are up next month, although they do mention less probably scenarios, such as closing down portions of Yahoos music to get rid of some of their 300 employees in that business. Another possibility is leveraging Yahoo Mail, still one of the top free Web-based email programs, as a social networking platform of some sort. Susan Decker, President of Yahoo, said in July that the service was one of the Webs largest dormant social networks and one that we are aggressively pursuing ways to activate. At present, some shareholders are plenty disgruntled as the stock price continues to fall The WSJ reports that its dropped off 15% over the last year. It seems that some, however, hold out hope for a comeback. Comments Tag: Yahoo Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Reddit |  Furl About the Author: Jordan McCollum is a staff writer for the popular marketing blog Marketing Pilgrim. She has worked in search engine optimization with clients including 3M, Little Giant Ladders and ADP. After graduating from Brigham Young University, Jordan joined the SEO copywriting team at the Internet marketing firm 10x Marketing. After 10x closed its doors in December 2006, Jordan became a freelance writer and Internet marketing consultant specializing in SEO. She also has extensive experience with web analytics, conversion rate enhancement and e-mail marketing. |
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