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SEOPittfallSEOPittfallSearch Engine Optimization plus tips, tools and techniques to help you build a better website for your visitors and the search engines they use. Articles
Seattle Arrival
2007-07-26 00:00:00 Well… We have landed in Seattle for the SES Travel Conference and Expo beginning tomorrow. We took the mono-rail to downtown and checked out a great Irish pub The Blarney Stone… I am still trying to get over the 3 hour difference from east coast, but we will be up and at the conference in the ... More About: Riva
Setting an Expiration Date on Content
2007-07-26 00:00:00 Breaking News! Google is coming out with a new tag called ?unavailable_after? which will allow people to tell Google when a particular page will no longer be available for crawling. For instance, if you have a special offer on your site that expires on a particular date, you might want to use the unavailable_after tag to ... More About: Content , Tent
SEOpittfall Takes a Break
2007-07-26 00:00:00 As I am sure some of you know, SEOpittfall went offline yesterday… I would love to be able to say that there was some cataclysmic event that happened, but it was simply a hard drive failure. My host’s database failed and I had to restore from a back-up copy. But, all is well! Oh, on a related note, ... More About: Break , Pitt , Fall , Brea
Baby Pittfall is a Girl?
2007-07-26 00:00:00 It?s official? According to someone with much more experience than I do (certainly more experience than I want), we have been blessed with a girl! If my wife has anything to say about it, her name will be Sophia Noelle (so-fee-a n-owe-el). The baby is doing well, weight and size are all normal! More About: Baby , Girl , Pitt , Fall
Sphinn Hits the Scene
2007-07-20 00:00:00 What is Sphinn? Sphinn is a social site for search and interactive marketers. It’s designed to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in discussions, discover events of interest and network with others. Another product from Third Door Media, Sphinn joins the likes of Search Engine Land, Search Marketing Now and Search ... More About: Scene , Hits
SoloSEO - Link Search Tool
2007-07-16 00:00:00 There are a large number of things that many take for granted because of their time in the SEO arena… Because of this, it is always important to take a step back to see what you are doing and what you are not doing to improve your website for visitors and search engines. That is why ... More About: Search , Tool , Link , Solos
Search and Destroy - SEM Without SEO?
2007-07-16 00:00:00 The New York Post released an article detailing the lack of many companies Most executives, with little regard to how well their companies fare in the more important natural search results… …overspend on paid search because it is the one area of the search market they understand. Aside from concerns for the relationship between the news ... More About: Search
Push Button Solutions for Bloggers
2007-07-13 00:00:00 Feedburner, recently acquired by Google, has taken a step for their users using another of Google’s products, Blogg er. I know what many are thinking… Blogger and Wordpress.org blogs are for fair-weather or social bloggers… but I think that anyone that contributes (not copies) content to the Internet are valuable. From Burning Questions: …we are very excited to announce the ... More About: Bloggers , Button , Solutions , Logger
Social Networking 101
2007-07-13 00:00:00 What is social networking? What is a social network? In a easy to follow, easy to understand, The Common Craft Show has published a short 2 minute video to answer these questions. Check out Social Networking in Plain English! Don’t forget to be careful with what you share and to whom you share it. If you are unsure of ... More About: Social Networking , Working , Workin
Summer of Oh-Seven
2007-07-13 00:00:00 Having been extremely busy for the past few weeks, taking a look at my schedule, it doesn’t look like I am going to get much of a break anytime soon! That doesn’t really matter, but I want to give you some insight to what you ave to expect from pittfall this summer: Recommended Magazine: Search Marketing Standard ... More About: Summer
Happy 4th of July
2007-07-07 00:00:00 Enjoy our independence and please remember the sacrifices that made it all possible. Semper Fidelis More About: Happy , July
MyBlogLog - SMO Tool
2007-06-30 00:00:00 MyBlogLog has become a very influential aspect of SMO, social media optimization. What is SMO? Social Media Optimization (SMO) is a way to optimize web sites so they would be more easily connected or interlaced with online communities and community websites, also called social media sites. Methods of SMO include adding RSS feeds, adding a “Digg ... More About: Tool
Don?t Follow Google?s Mistakes
2007-06-28 00:00:00 This is not an attempt to bash Googl e . However, you can sometimes learn what not to do from some very successful people and products. Google has been extremely active in the last year adding services and developing products for users and webmasters alike, however, in some instances they have missed the mark. Here are some of the ... More About: Stakes , Mista
Google - In Search for SPAM
2007-06-20 00:00:00 In an effort to help provide users with more relevant results, Googl e is now encouraging users to report spam in their query results: Today, in response to your request, we’re providing a paid links reporting form within Webmaster Tools. To use the form, simply log in and provide information on the sites buying and selling links ... More About: Spam , Search
SEOmoz - Rank Checker Tool
2007-06-20 00:00:00 SEOmoz has many tools and information that is extremely useful for SEOs. They have added another valuable tool for your rank building efforts, it is called Rank Checker . You do have to be a member of SEOmoz to use the tool, but there is free registration for those interested in trying out the tool. Here are ... More About: Tool , Hecker
Vanessa Fox Leaves Webmaster Central
2007-06-20 00:00:00 Vanessa Fox has been, for many, the voice of Google’s Webmaster Central . She has decided to make a change and leave Google: Now I have an all-new opportunity to work on the unique challenges of the vertical and local search space at Zillow. I?m moving on from webmaster central knowing that there?s a great team who ... More About: Vanessa , Vane , Leaves
Mahalo Greenhouse - User Generated Search Directory Results
2007-06-20 00:00:00 Mahalo, the first human generated search engine directory, is now looking for users to build search results. Two weeks ago we launched the human-powered “search service” Mahalo.com in alpha at the WSJ’s D conference in California. The tag line of Mahalo is “we’re here to help,” and after 15 days of tremendous feedback we’ve learned one ... More About: Results , Search , Greenhouse , Directory , User
Social Optimization for Real People
2007-06-08 00:00:00 Peopleized is a new web 2.0 portal devoted to the social aspect of the Internet. With a simple design and concept, Peopleized.com has the the opportunity to become a hot property on the social web. Here is the idea: 1. Join a community devoted to people. 2. Interview others by building interviews and answering interview requests from ... More About: Social , People , Optimization , Real , Opti
Google Admits Problems Dealing with the Googlebombing
2007-06-06 00:00:00 Google claimed back in January that the Googlebomb was no longer a concern, however, today on the Official Google Blog, Marissa Mayer noted: If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House?s official biographical page for President Bush. We’ve received some complaints ... More About: Google , Problems , Bomb , Ealing , Googl
Mahalo - Human Edited Search Engine Directory
2007-06-06 00:00:00 What is Mahalo? Mahalo is the world’s first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides. Our Guides spend their days searching, filtering out spam, and hand-crafting the best search results possible. If they haven’t yet built a search result, you can request that search result. You can also suggest links for ... More About: Human , Search , Search Engine , Directory , Engine
New York Times Provides a Glimpse of Google?s Intent
2007-06-06 00:00:00 An introspective look at Google was published today in The New York Times entitled “Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine.” At first thought, Duh! But after spending a couple of minutes of reading, it really gives a great look into the inner workings of the most influential (and most important, in my mind) group of engineers ... More About: New York Times
Google?s Universal Search and SEO
2007-06-06 00:00:00 Well, let’s find out what Googl e ’s means by universal search from a user’s perspective: Search across all content with new universal search effort In striving to give you the best results to your search queries, we’ve found that the best information can take many different forms. For this reason, we have taken the beginning steps towards a ... More About: Universal , Univ
Google - The Official Announcement Feedburner Acquired
2007-06-02 00:00:00 As speculated by TechCrunch on May 23rd, Google has announced the purchase of FeedBurner: As you know, we’re constantly looking for ways to identify and offer new tools for content creators and website publishers. Likewise, we constantly aim to give AdWords advertisers broader distribution to an even wider audience of users. For these reasons, we’re very ... More About: Announcement , Feedburner , Official , Acquire
Google Gears Reader
2007-05-31 00:00:00 In an unexpected circumstance tonight, while going through my RSS subscriptions in Googl e Reader , I noticed something outside the ordinary. A nice little link in the upper right of my screen saying “offline” caught my attention. So, clicking on the link started off the installation of Google Gears for Reader: After clicking on Install Google Gears ... More About: Ears
Link Bait and Viral Marketing = Traffic - So What!
2007-05-30 00:00:00 This is a topic that I have really considered to be an area of concern for me as an online marketing professional. So, what are link bait and viral marketing? Link Baiting: The art of targeting, creating, and formatting information that provokes the target audience to point high quality links at your site. Many link baiting techniques are ... More About: Marketing , Traffic , Viral , Viral Marketing
Google Buys Feedburner
2007-05-30 00:00:00 The headline: TechCrunch: Googl e to Purchase Feedburner for $100 Million Cash What is so important about this acquisition? Feedburner is famous for effectively and efficiently getting users to notify them of new content and it being published quickly and easily by publishers. It also offers great information to their members to monitor their feeds. The difficulty for Feedburner ... More About: Burn
New Features from MyBlogLog
2007-05-30 00:00:00 MyBlogLog is a portal for social networking around blogs. Since Yahoo purchased them earlier this year, not many visible changes have happened, but recently Yahoo announced that they will be focusing more attention on building MyBlogLog to be a better portal and possibly re-branding them. The first major addition to what MyBlogLog is offering has happened: Tagging Eric ... More About: Features , Feat
Memorial Day
2007-05-30 00:00:00 In honor of Memo rial Day , and in remembrance of all of those who have given their lives to allow each of us to enjoy the freedoms that were granted us. In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the Crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard ... More About: Rial
Nerd Test Meme
2007-05-30 00:00:00 I have not really ever considered myself a “nerd” per say, however, after being tagged by Bill at SEO by the Sea, I figured, what the heck, give it a whirl! Much to my surprise, I ranked a bit higher than expected, 88 to be exact. I decided before taking the test, not to use the ... More About: Meme , Nerd , Test
Google AdWords Tool for Your Marketing Toolbelt
More articles from this author:2007-05-24 00:00:00 As tools have progressed through the years, simple reporting tools are no longer fulfilling the needs of marketers professionals to know who, what, where, when and how people are using their websites. Analytics can answer this for you, but it still doesn’t answer another very important question: What about my competition? Google offers a little known tool ... More About: Marketing , Tool , Google Adwords , Adwords 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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