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Yahoo! Ends Paid Inclusion

pittfall — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:33:12 +0000

Back in October, Yahoo! announced that by the end of 2009 Search Submit Pro’s Paid Inclusion would be discontinued causing some alarm by sites using the service and many of us in the search industry wondered how it would impact the search results. Those of us that managed SSP feeds wondered what would happen after [...]

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Yahoo! Ends Paid Inclusion

Rosetta #1 Independent Digital Agency 2008

pittfall — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:44:34 +0000

It is official… Rosetta is the Top Independent Digital Agency in the US for 2008 according to Advertising Age. This last year has been quite an adjustment for me, my family and my career. It has been quite the challenge of moving from in-house to agency, moving to Cleveland plus adjusting to Brulant and Rosetta Marketing [...]

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Rosetta #1 Independent Digital Agency 2008

Die Duplicate Content Die!

pittfall — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:41:51 +0000

What does canonical mean? According to a biology glossary from the University of Arizona it is “repetitive; repeating in different forms“. So, what does it mean to online publishers? Simply, duplicate content. How does duplicate content exist, what is it’s impact on search engines and, more importantly, how does it affect online publishers in search engine results? I know that [...]

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Die Duplicate Content Die!

SEO for Local Results

pittfall — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:07:48 +0000

Very interesting… recently I posted about the need for Google to focus on relevancy in search results to maintain their market share that led me to look at tying a geographic location to improve relevancy and my belief that it will be the next step to reinforce universal search results. As a professional SEO consultant, [...]

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SEO for Local Results

World Usability Day 2008

pittfall — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:50:55 +0000

What is World Usability Day? World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use. Each year, it has a specific focus and is honored around the world on the second Thursday of the month of November. WorldUsability.org World Usability Day is being [...]

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World Usability Day 2008

Vote

pittfall — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:19:58 +0000

As I am sure many of you share my feelings, I have become very disenfranchised with the 2008 Presidential Election. Both side have used negativity and scare tactics to drum up support for their ticket. Each side has highlighted the historical event that is about to happen no matter the outcome. I am not here to [...]

A Compendium of Google’s Chrome Browser

pittfall — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:12:58 +0000

What a whirlwind of activity that has surrounded the launch of a new browser. I don’t remember any browser getting this amount of buzz than Google has with Chrome. I really wanted to start posting information on Monday afternoon when the info leaked out and the firestorm got started. But I wanted to see how [...]

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A Compendium of Google’s Chrome Browser

Meta Tags Constitute Trademark Infringement or Not?

pittfall — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:34:52 +0000

A couple of influential court cases in the US have been decided, however, they differ on the overall outcome when it comes to use of trademarked words in META data including keywords constitute trademark infringement. North American Medical Corp. v. Axiom Worldwide, Inc. But in this case, I do not think Axiom denied placing those terms in [...]

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Meta Tags Constitute Trademark Infringement or Not?

Google Search within Search – User Assistance or Retailer Handicap?

pittfall — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:31:51 +0000

Google recently began experimenting with a new site search box within results: Through experimentation, we found that presenting users with a search box as part of the result increases their likelihood of finding the exact page they are looking for. So over the past few days we have been testing, and today we have fully rolled [...]

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Google Search within Search – User Assistance or Retailer Handicap?

Oops, an Error has Occurred – Yahoo! Says No to Microsoft

pittfall — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:05:45 +0000

Via the Wall Street Journal: Yahoo Board to Reject Microsoft Bid Yahoo Inc.’s board plans to reject Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to acquire the Web giant, a person familiar with the situation says. After a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo’s board determined that the $31 per share offer “massively undervalues” Yahoo, the person [...]

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Oops, an Error has Occurred – Yahoo! Says No to Microsoft

The Great Search War or Search War I?

pittfall — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:26:56 +0000

Whether the outcome would be Micro-hoo or Ya-soft the outcome would be the same, a new combined power that may be able to put some heat on Google to maintain their control on search and online advertising. This is not new speculation, actually last year Microsoft was in the same role as they have assumed recently: Competition [...]

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The Great Search War or Search War I?

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

Technology is not Suited for Small Business – Business Week

pittfall — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:05:52 +0000

Tech ‘Solutions’ Your Small Biz Can’t Use A lot of highfalutin software and gadgets aim to help you run your company, but too little of it is suited for a small business environment – Gene Marks Business Week Recently, Business Week offered up a reason to be concerned. In an article (title and subtitle above), by Gene [...]

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Technology is not Suited for Small Business – Business Week

Killing Two Birds with One Stone – Knol Tackles Wikipedia and Squidoo

pittfall — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:42:11 +0000

“Knol” stands for a unit of knowledge, according to the Official Google Blog. Here are some highlights on Google’s new project: The challenge posed to us was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal. The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors’ names [...]

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Killing Two Birds with One Stone – Knol Tackles Wikipedia and Squidoo

Announcing the Birth of Sophia Noelle Pitts

pittfall — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:12:15 +0000

Thursday, December 6, 2007 – 1:34 p.m. – 7lbs. 5ozs. – 20 1/2 inches 10 fingers – 10 toes – full head of hair. I will post pictures and more when we go home (tomorrow at the earliest). Happy, healthy and very coherent! >>> UPDATE – DECEMBER 9, 2007

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Announcing the Birth of Sophia Noelle Pitts

Baby Pittfall Arrives Tomorrow

pittfall — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:24:07 +0000

I would like to thank all of my friends, family, constituents and readers for their prayers and wishes for the health and well being of my wife Kris and our soon to be born daughter Sophia. Sophia has decided to stay in the comfort of her mother’s womb for 40 weeks, but she will be [...]

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Baby Pittfall Arrives Tomorrow

Google AdWords’ Click-to-Call Ending

pittfall — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:07:36 +0000

If you can recall, last year (around October) Google started a project called Click-to-Call that allowed users to click on an ad and enter their phone number and connect with the advertiser. Google and it’s very profitable AdWords is testing new service Click-to-Call to provide the user with the security to speak to an advertiser without [...]

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Google AdWords’ Click-to-Call Ending

Microsoft Webmaster Portal is Live in Beta

pittfall — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:44:50 +0000

MSN Webmaster Portal was announced in August and was to be released into beta in September and be fully accessible by the end of November, however very little has been released since the initial announcement. Until now. The first screenshots of the new platform have been released by Barry at Search Engine Roundtable. Along with screenshots, [...]

The Day the Music Died

pittfall — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:05:23 +0000

Well, the music didn’t die, but the music industry, as we currently know it, might just be giving up the ghost. Strike One – Radiohead released their most recent album “In Rainbows” via a band controlled download and an interesting marketing maneuver by allowing everyone to name their own price (even $0.00). Strike Two – Trent [...]

Vanessa Fox Leaves Webmaster Central

pittfall — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:01:02 +0000

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 [...]

Google Expected to Join The X Prize Foundation to Wipe Out Social Problems

pittfall — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:53:24 +0000

Google has reportedly been enlisted as a corporate sponsor for 10 new X Prize competition. What is an X Prize? You may remember, SpaceShipOne took the first Anasari X PRIZE for spaceflight. An X PRIZE is a multi-million dollar award given to the first team to achieve a specific goal, set by the X PRIZE Foundation, which has [...]

Behold the Power of Breast Milk?

pittfall — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:58:26 +0000

Pork, usually in political and legal debates it refers to things that are extra or unnecessary, however this time it is referring to “the other white meat!” I am not sure if you are aware, but a blogger and breastfeeding activist came under attack recently over a marketing t-shirt that slightly changed a prominent pork slogan [...]

Web News Punchlist

pittfall — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:59:00 +0000

Here are some stories that were interesting from the last few days: SEObytheSea started a “Mobile Patent Filings” update bringing mobile search’s possible future into perspective. Shoemoney pondered the idea, Would You Hire Matt Cutts? Google adds visual data analysis to Reader. Feedburner adds site statistics. SE Journal reports Performancing – PayPerPost Deal goes flat. TechCrunch adds forums. Old media learns new [...]

Yahoo! Acquires MyBlogLog and Bix

pittfall — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:48:00 +0000

Yahoo! went out and picked up a couple of new additions today: Bix and MyBlogLog. MyBlogLog: MyBlogLog enables you to take advantage of your existing presence on the Web and ties it into communities of like-minded readers and authors to add context to the conversations in which you take part. MyBlogLog.com Translation: Take your blog over to the [...]

Search Engine Land

pittfall — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:47:00 +0000

Search Engine Land Wow! A theme park for Search Engines. I be they will even have rides like: “Jeeve’s Revenge!” Maybe a “Search of Tomorrow” area where the engines can showcase ideas and new technology. But, all of my thoughts vanished after the page loaded. I am still excited about the new project from Danny Sullivan, Chris [...]