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MSN is “STICKIN’ IT TO THE little guy”

posted by pittfall in search engines, sem on August 30th, 2007

Microsoft AdCenter has updated it’s trademark policy, wait… in an email sent out today they state that their trademark policy remains the same, however, how they enforce the policy will change dramatically:
Microsoft adCenter is changing the way we manage our trademark policy starting September 10, 2007. While no change will be made to the trademark [...]

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GWC - Revival of the Penalty Notifications

posted by pittfall in resources, search engines, seo, tools on August 29th, 2007

Google Webmaster Central is a very valuable resource and looks to continue to give us important information regarding our websites in the Google index and actually gives us insight into how the Googlebot interacts with our websites and their contents.
In 2005 Google began sending notifications to webmasters to notify them that their websites were outside [...]

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GMail Fun

posted by pittfall in tools on August 28th, 2007

I wanted to share this great little video from GMail.

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DMOZ - Still Sucks and Now with Extortion!

posted by pittfall in resources, seo on August 28th, 2007

In one of my most popular posts in the short existence of SEOpittfall.com “Why DMOZ Sucks and Wikipedia is Nothing More Than a Blog”, I had some very direct comments regarding the Open Directory Project:
DMOZ is a wonderful idea, however, it is inherently flawed.
I must say that I would have to rephrase some of the [...]

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Must Have for Social Optimization

posted by pittfall in orm, resources, seo, tools on August 26th, 2007

Wow, that’s pretty absolute, isn’t it?
What makes something a “must have?“
I don’t mean this:
Must Have
Find Must Have Online.
Shop & Save at Target.com Today.
www.Target.com
(actual Google sponsored results for “must have”)
pittfall’s definition of must have:
n. “a valuable resource that should not be dismissed.”
OK, so what is this “valuable resource,” this “must have” for social optimization?
Social Media [...]

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