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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
News from MSN/Live Search and the Fight Against Spam
2007-03-18 00:00:00 What is the purpose of spam? Well, when it is in your "inbox" it is usually a phishing agent trying to get information that can be sold (money), when it is in search results it is a bit more direct (money). Either way, your information is valuable and your wallet ... More About: News , Spam , Search , Fight , Live
Don?t Believe Me? Listen to Another Expert!
2007-03-17 00:00:00 Shari Thurow an applauded author and expert in the field of Human/Computer Interfaces recently wrote about SEO Niches and the Big Picture on ClickZ. There has been some that have complained about her remarks that eye tracking is overrated, however, if you look at the article as a whole, it is ... More About: Other , List , Listen , Another , Believe
Search Marketing Blogs
2007-03-16 00:00:00 I would like to thank Lee Odden and all of my readers for helping me to become one of the top 400 most valuable Search Market ing Blog s . Here is the updated OPML file and plain text list.
Notes About Navigation and Website Structure
2007-03-16 00:00:00 Today I was thinking about Google Site Links and how this has not been copied in dramatic fashion like many of the updates and changes that they incorporate into search. What are SiteLinks? The links shown below some sites in our search results, called Sitelinks, are meant to help users navigate your site. ... More About: Website , Note , Webs , Notes
Microsoft Buys TellMe
2007-03-15 00:00:00 Microsoft Corp. today announced it will acquire Tellme Networks, Inc., a leading provider of voice services for everyday life, including nationwide directory assistance, enterprise customer service and voice-enabled mobile search. Microsoft and Tellme share a vision around the potential of speech as a way to enable access to information, locate ... More About: Microsoft , Soft , Micro
AdWords Editor 3.0 Ready for Mac
2007-03-14 00:00:00 Hi, I'm a Mac and I'm a PC. Funny thing about Macs, they don't always have the same functionality as PCs. But now, that has changed, at least for AdWord s Editor version 3.0. AdWords Editor 3.0 for Mac is now available and includes all the new features released a few weeks ago ... More About: Read , Adwords
Yahoo! Answers Gets Personal
2007-03-12 00:00:00 Yahoo! has announced that they are testing new functionality to add a level of social networking to their popular Answer s product: We just added a new capability to Answers , the Yahoo! Answers Network ? currently in beta, which enables you to build your own personal knowledge network. So what exactly is ... More About: Personal , Yahoo , Yahoo Answers
Beanstalk Provides Tools for Search Marketers
2007-03-11 00:00:00 Beanstalk is a Search Engine Market ing firm that offers SEO news articles and have recently added to marketers toolbox with some free SEO tools. Beanstalk's Tool s for Search Engine Marketers Ranking Tools Keyword Activity Tool This one help you to determine which keywords you should be targeting by providing the estimated searches per day ... More About: Beans
The Machine is Us/ing Us
2007-03-10 17:08:08 Digital Ethnography has completed their project and has released the final edit of The Mac hine is Us/ing Us. Here are a few thoughts from the author: On January 31st I released the 2nd draft of The Mach ine is Us/ing Us hoping to receive feedback from my colleagues. (The first draft was only ... More About: Chine
Tagged by Eric Lander
2007-03-09 05:06:01 First, I must apologize to Eric. He tagged me on January 31st, and I knew about it the following day, but I have not responded yet. 1. What have you learned so far from visitors to your blog? OK, I have learned (realized) that I don't know quite as much as I ... More About: Tagged , Land , Lander
Supplemental Results
2007-03-07 11:03:02 What are supplemental results? Supple mental results are the pages that do not show up in SERPs when a user searches for your topics that relate to the content that you publish. Pages that are in the supplemental index are placed there because they are trusted less. Since they are crawled less frequently ... More About: Mental , Men , Results , Menta
Alexa Ranking Not Valuable
More articles from this author:2007-03-06 23:02:02 Alexa, if you are not familiar with it, is a service of Amazon.com, international seller of books and products online. One of the services that Alexa provides is "Alexa Site Information," which includes three main areas: Site Overview Traffic Detail Related Links There is one slight problem with the way that they gather this ... More About: Rank , Alex , Alexa , King , Ranking 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
