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Keywords – What’s Brand Got To Do With It?

pittfall — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:01:30 +0000

Researching and targeting keywords is the second step in building an effective SEO campaign after developing an online strategy, so what is the value of brand messaging within targeted keywords? azure, beryl, cerulean, cobalt, indigo, navy, royal, sapphire, teal, turquoise, ultramarine All of these words are synonyms for “blue” blue bag web search – 289,000 results image search – 26,900 [...]

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Keywords – What’s Brand Got To Do With It?

Marketing and Learning – Division and Contrast

pittfall — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:55:33 +0000

The smallest remarks can sometimes spur the greatest conversations. Case in point, yesterday on a blog by Professor Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University made a very simple interaction with his students that many of us might remember during our time in college, regarding school and learning, and posted [...]

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Marketing and Learning – Division and Contrast

“Don’t Be Evil” – Philosophy, Corporate Culture or Inventive Perception?

pittfall — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:14:19 +0000

Whether it’s a mantra, an “informal corporate motto” or just a slogan, Google’s statement: “Don’t Be Evil” has lost it’s shine with many users and publishers that make up the Internet. This post has been a long time coming. This is a topic that I have been intending on writing about, however, every time that I [...]

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“Don’t Be Evil” – Philosophy, Corporate Culture or Inventive Perception?

Wired Magazine’s Geekipedia Explores SEO

pittfall — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:54:20 +0000

Wow! I thought, pulling an additional insert in my recent Wired Magazine called “Geekipedia” and thought that it might come in handy. I spend most of my time at work with my marketing and SEO hats fully fixed on my head and much of my free time researching the aspects of the latter that keep [...]

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Wired Magazine’s Geekipedia Explores SEO

Why DMOZ Sucks and Wikipedia is Nothing More Than a Blog

pittfall — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:53:42 +0000

As I have researched over the years on search engines and the value of directories and “valuable resources” on the web, I have found two things that are self-evident. DMOZ is a wonderful idea, however, it is inherently flawed. Wikipedia is a collection of information that is biased and should carry considerably less value than is given. DMOZ [...]

Seven SEO Myths

pittfall — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:15:09 +0000

Last month, Lee Odden from Online Marketing Blog covered a few myths of SEO. I will not share all of them, but a few are important to understand: 1. Search Engine Optimization is a collection of tricks to fool search engines. You may not think SEO is rocket science, however, the only techniques that attempt to [...]

Link Building Myths

pittfall — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:32:00 +0000

I have contemplated not posting this, but after much thought, I figure why not warn the people that are not reading my blog. This is not the answer to building quality links, Links Bulletin. It even goes against traditional services marketing. This illustrates a concept I learned in the college of business at UCF: a classic [...]