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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
Microsoft + Yahoo = ???
2007-05-17 00:00:00 As it stands now, a deal between Micro soft and Yahoo ! would up the combined companies’ share of the all-important search advertising market to 27 percent against Google’s 65 percent. It would also narrow the gap in overall online ads with Google to just 13 percent. More importantly, a deal would create what one source described ... More About: Yahoo!
Happy Mother?s (and Mothers to be) Day!
2007-05-15 00:00:00 I would like to wish my mother, my mother in-law and most importantly my mother-to-be, Kristin, my wife a Happy Mother ’s Day. I encourage you to do the same to your mother, in person if you can, by phone if you can’t. Here is the latest photo of our baby in the womb. More About: Mothers , Hers
News!
2007-05-15 00:00:00 I will be working on my blog over the next few days, but you may not see the results. I am working on bringing my body of work from Build a Better Website over to SEOPittfall. Because of the number of posts (170) and the fact that there are probably many broken links, it will keep ... More About: News
Keyword Research - Tips and Tools
2007-05-11 00:00:00 Before beginning any campaign in marketing online, SEO or SEM, it is important to look at who you will be targeting with your website. Really, your research should begin with the planning of your website, however, if you have published something already, you will need to look at your keywords on a regular basis, not ... More About: Tools , Research , Tips , Keyword , Keyword Research
Catching Up
2007-05-08 00:00:00 I have been away, a couple of days physically, a few mentally, but one great thing that has happened as I have sat on planes and sat in airports over the last weekend, I was able to catch up on some magazines to read. I picked up a copy of Wired and really enjoyed the 2007 ... More About: Catch
Not Much from Pittfall
2007-05-06 00:00:00 I have to appologize for not posting anything this week, it has been a long one! My wife received some bad news Sunday evening and we’ve been scrambling all week. Today, I graduated and right now I am siting in Orlando Int’l Airport waiting for my delayed flight. I should be back sometime Sunday night… hopefully never ... More About: Much , Pitt , Fall
Personalized Search - The Death of SEO?
2007-04-29 00:00:00 Search Engine Optimization has been a topic of debate since the concept was developed in the mid 1990’s. Some think of it as techniques to artificially inflate organic rankings, in essence, to “trick” search engines to send them traffic that they do not deserve. I am not saying that people have used techniques to accomplish this ... More About: Search , Death , Person , Persona , Sona
Yahoo Wants You!
2007-04-26 00:00:00 Yahoo wants you… to give them feedback about the Yahoo Toolbar. They have set up a suggestions board for everyone to vote on and make their own suggestions for the toolbar. So what! Well this is a great example of what to do when building and maintaining your web presence. 1. Give users a platform respond 2. Be open ... More About: Yahoo , Want , Ants , Yahoo!
Earth Day 2007
2007-04-24 00:00:00 Earth Day is a time to consider the amount of resources that we use and how this use affects the earth and everyone else in the global community. I would like to encourage everyone to be considerate of each other online and off, weather it be making a better effort to recycle, reuse or something as ... More About: Earth , Earth Day
Code of Conduct or Common Sense
2007-04-24 00:00:00 Just a few weeks ago, Tim O’Reilly called for a blogger’s code of conduct and subsequently, and even with all of the April fool’s jokes that hit the web and blogosphere the following day it was not lost. NPR’s Morning Edition jumped into the discussion earlier this week (Wednesday, April 18, 2007), you can hear ... More About: Sense , Code , Common , Common Sense , Ense
Google Doesn?t Own the Internet!
2007-04-24 00:00:00 Here is a tool that is extremely useful for SEOs to know, it is provided by BruceClay.com and is called the Search Relationship Chart. (pdf here) They even have a histogram with the relationships as they have changed since November 2000. It outlines the suppliers and receivers of primary and secondary search results (raw index) ... More About: Google , Internet , The Internet , Intern , Googl
Great News!
2007-04-16 00:00:00 I know that I do not share much personal information on my blog, but this is something that I have held in for 3 weeks now and can share. Last weekend my wife and I visited her parents in Key West and let them know the great news, and finally, today we sat down and ... More About: News , Great
Why I Blog - SEOPittfall.com
2007-04-16 00:00:00 Recently, Eric Hebert tagged me with this topic and I though that it provides for insight into what SEOPitt fall is about, it’s purpose, what I am trying to accomplish with my blog. Why I Blog 1. Build my Reputation. A professional reputation is as important as it ever was and in today’s online world it is ... More About: Fall , Fakta , Doof
Google Nabs DoubleClick
2007-04-14 00:00:00 Google purchased Double Clic k today for almost twice as much as they paid for YouTube. With the announcement, a post on the Official Google Blog was generated: At Google, we are constantly looking for new, innovative ways to make the information you want more accessible and more relevant?and to deliver it as fast as possible. Since Google’s ... More About: Google , Googl
Sitemaps.org Announces Autodiscovery Protocol
2007-04-13 00:00:00 In four separate announcements today from Ask, Google, MSN and Yahoo have announced a new robots.txt protocol for a sitemap autodiscovery on Site maps.org. Ask.com - The first bit of news is that Ask.com has joined their counterparts in the development of Sitemaps.org. Ask.com is now supporting submission of Sitemaps via http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=S itemapUrl. We are ... More About: Discovery , Auto , Roto , Item
4 Ways to Rank Better in Alexa
2007-04-13 00:00:00 I know that Alex a rankings are as valuable as, well a third grader’s personal opinion of traffic, and there are many bloggers that are concerned with them because they raise their value in advertising companies like PayPerPost, Text Link Ads and ReviewMe, which I don’t agree with (without being totally transparent about the posts being ... More About: Rank , Alexa , Better , Bett
MyBlogLog Addresses Changes
2007-04-11 00:00:00 In a recent post on the MyBlog Log Blog, Eric has announced changes to their management team, namely the exit of Scott Rafer, former CEO (before the Yahoo acquisition). When we were acquired, Scott was asked to stay on board and guide us through the transition. Now that we're on ... More About: Dresses , Change , Dress , Esse
User-Centered Design
2007-04-10 00:00:00 Back in November of 2006, I wrote about World Usability Day and specifically focused on User Oriented Desi gn (UOD), also referred to as User-Cent ered Design (UCD) by other experts. User-Centered Design is a very important component of Search Engine Optimization, in my opinion, it is the most influential aspect of SEO, ... More About: Sign
MyBlogLog Announces Community Manager
2007-04-07 00:00:00 MyBlog Log has found their community manager in Robyn Tippins of Sleepy Blogger, and they have announced her responsibilities up front: Comprehensive FAQ Integration guides Community bulletin boards Yahoo! Customer Care integration Spearhead changes to the site that cut down on confusion. I look, with great anticipation, for Robyn's role and keeping the momentum since before ... More About: Muni , Manager , Mana
YellowBot.com - An Interview with Erron Silverstein, CEO of Solfo
2007-04-04 00:00:00 Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with Erron Silver stein, CEO of Solfo, which has developed a new, Web 2.0 version of local directories with the user at the core of the project. It blends local and social aspects to bring local brick and mortar locations, such as restaurants, services, ... More About: Inter , Interview , With , View
Google Goes for Bathroom Humor
2007-04-02 00:00:00 Google announced a new service today, TiSP beta. Sign up for our free in-home wireless broadband service Sick of paying for broadband that you have to, well, pay for? Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless broadband service. Sign up today and we'll send you your TiSP self-installation kit, which includes ... More About: Google , Humor , Bath , Bathroom , Room
Are You Doing What You Can?
2007-04-02 00:00:00 Today, I began my Sunday morning like many others, make some coffee, walk my dogs and settle down in front of my computer to read my Sunday morning news and catch up on the the articles that I wanted to spend more time reviewing from earlier in the week. Unfortunately, ... More About: What , Hat , Doing
Ask.com Sells Out to KFed
2007-04-02 00:00:00 Jim Lanzone Video Announcement Sorry for the Sunday posting, folks, but we wanted to announce before the press got wind of it. We've had a company-changing development happen over the last few days, and we're finally at a point where we can tell you about it. For the details, check out ... More About: Sell
Blogger Offers New Widgets
2007-04-01 00:00:00 Blogger has announced two new elements available for users on their blogs: Newsreel Video Bar To add to their list of elements that are available in the latest Blogger Templates: List Link List Picture Text HTML/JavaScript AdSense Feed Labels Logo Profile Similar to Google Alerts, the Newsreel allows you to choose the keywords that you ... More About: Blogger , Widgets , Widget , Blog , Offers
MSN Live Search Limits Your Abilities
2007-03-31 00:00:00 MSN announced today that they will be limiting the use of advanced queries: For those of you who use some of the advanced query syntax in our search engine such as link:, linkdomain: and inurl:, you may have noticed that this functionality has been recently turned off. We have been seeing ... More About: Search , Your , Live , Limits , Bili
Focus on What is Important
2007-03-30 00:00:00 Recently I was asked to be interviewed for a new blog that is being created. So what, right? I am not tooting my own horn, but many of the questions were very thought out. I would like to share one of them: Q. Why do you blog? friends, networking, verification of information, ... More About: Port , What , Hat , Focus , Import
PageRank - What It Is and What It Is Not
2007-03-27 00:00:00 Here is the definition of Page Rank from Google: PageRank, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. Before this they claim that it is "the heart of our technology," however, this is no longer the case, actually it hasn't been the case ... More About: Pagerank , What , Hat
Yellowbot.com - Social Networking and Local Search
2007-03-27 00:00:00 Yellowbot is live. Yellowbot in it's simplest form is an online directory similar to the old yellow pages book that is delivered to your door on a yearly basis. But if you think that it is just a directory of a huge database of business listings with names, addresses, phone numbers, ... More About: Social , Social Networking , Networking , Work , Search
New Tools for Optimizing Your Website
2007-03-21 00:00:00 Beanstalk has added yet another tool for use by all that will help you to know your website better, your competition and gives you the insight to make informed changes to address your optimization efforts. Search Engine Spider Test - a concise tool that reports some important information for any given ... More About: Tools , Website , Site , Webs , Tool
Social Media Information and Networking
More articles from this author:2007-03-20 00:00:00 Are you looking to find more information about social information related to the internet? If so, Social Media Today is a valuable resource to find out what is going on the the social arena. Joining the site gives you some additional means to build your social net on the web. Some of ... More About: Information , Networking , Work 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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