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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 AdWords Tool for Your Marketing Toolbelt
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
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!
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
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
Great News!
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
