From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Yahoo! Calls It Quits on Another Social Portal

by pittfall on August 31, 2008

Mash has fallen!

I posted about Yahoo! Mash last September when it was released in private beta and only available through an invitation. Now, Yahoo! will be scraping the fledgling social site, never having a real understanding of it’s true potential.

In my first post about Mash, I posed the question:
Can this give Yahoo an edge in [...]

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    Is Google a Local Pusher?

    by pittfall on August 30, 2008

    Back in May, I noticed what appeared to be a test by Google to add more relevancy to search engine result (SERPs) by publishing a search box for geographical modifiers to a requested search query (Google Pushing Local Results). See image below:

    If you used the “looking for local” search box, this would modify the SERPs [...]

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    SEOmoz PRO Training Series - Expert Seminar

    by pittfall on August 16, 2008

    Next week, I will be headed to Seattle, WA for the Expert Seminar hosted by SEOmoz.
    This looks to be a very interesting two days of expert education covering a list of topics beyond entry level SEO:

    Elite Site Architecture for Enterprise, E-Commerce and Micro-Targeted Domains
    White Hat Cloaking
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    SEO: The Online Triathlon

    by pittfall on August 11, 2008

    I am a very competitive person when it comes to many different areas including athletics, games and even sports teams. The fact that I work in the SEO industry is no different. I am pushing myself both in learning what is relevant to their market and keeping abreast of the changes in the industry as [...]

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