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Email Marketing – Connecting with Your Existing Users to Drive Conversions

pittfall — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:31:50 +0000

Online marketing doesn’t only include optimizing your website for increased performance in search engine result pages and using pay per click and other paid efforts to target the right market or even display advertising, blogging, social media marketing and the like; managing the contacts and the customers/users you already have can be an extremely efficient, [...]

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Email Marketing – Connecting with Your Existing Users to Drive Conversions

Link Building Tips – Google Alerts

pittfall — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:09:47 +0000

Link building is one of the most important and most difficult tasks in SEO. The most difficult thing to do is to get others to talk about your site and publish a link to your site, hopefully with anchor text, or alt element for image links, that contains a keyword that is important to your [...]

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Link Building Tips – Google Alerts

Link Building 2.0 – Link Development in Web 2.0

pittfall — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:35:35 +0000

Link building has changed, specifically around the concept of Web 2.0. Here is the definition from SEW: Web 2.0: A term that refers to a supposed second generation of Internet-based services. These usually include tools that let people collaborate and share information online, such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies. Web 2.0 has had a profound [...]

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Link Building 2.0 – Link Development in Web 2.0

Directory Submissions for Success

pittfall — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:31:54 +0000

Welcome to the third post in my latest series, Holistic Link Building 101. When it comes to building a website for SEO success, link development is an extremely important part of an effective online marketing strategy. Two important questions about link development regarding directory submissions: 1. Are directory submissions still a relevant tactic and worth [...]

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Directory Submissions for Success

Server Responses – The What and Why for SEO

pittfall — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:36:38 +0000

Sometimes not understanding why a website isn’t performing well can be a difficult thing to figure out. However, many times it is important to take a step back and look at what signals can be seen. When looking for technical concerns can appear to be a daunting task, however, we are going to review server [...]

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Server Responses – The What and Why for SEO

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

WordPress Turbo – Powered by Thesis

pittfall — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:30:42 +0000

WordPress, along with other personal publishing platforms like MovableType and Blogger, have given everyone the ability to publish their thoughts and experiences online for the world to see. Each of these different content management systems offer different solutions including hosted and self-hosted answers. I started blogging through a hosted Blogger site for two and a [...]

The First Decade with Google – 1998 – 2008

pittfall — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:19:46 +0000

Google hits 10 years old today, Happy Birthday… glad to see you make it out of beta! Then Now The Company Google Inc. was founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page to make it easier to find high-quality information on the web. The company is based on three years of research in web search and data mining [...]

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The First Decade with Google – 1998 – 2008

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

Yahoo! Calls It Quits on Another Social Portal

pittfall — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:25:27 +0000

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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Yahoo! Calls It Quits on Another Social Portal

Useful Tools for Blackberry

pittfall — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:00:47 +0000

Recently I switched from a Palm Treo to a Blackberry Curve because it offers functionality that helps me stay connected when my laptop is closed, I’m on the road, etc. It definitely offers more than the iPhone and Palm for business applications. A few of my finds (thanks to some friends) that I think are [...]

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Useful Tools for Blackberry

Google Out to Destroy Keyword Estimation Tools?

pittfall — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:25:23 +0000

Google has always offered very valuable tools to advertisers, one of which that is extremely useful to organic keyword research, the Google AdWords Keyword Tool for discovering and building a keyword list. The only limitation is that it expressed search volume and search volume trends as a green bar. This was a great way to [...]

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Google Out to Destroy Keyword Estimation Tools?

AT&T Offers Up Pogo – Do We Need Another Browser?

pittfall — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:32:35 +0000

AT&T stepped into the online realm last year with the purchase of ingenio, and now they have launched their very own browser called Pogo, now in invitation only beta. TechCrunch has invitations for this limited beta. Essentially, it looks and acts a lot like Firefox. Here are a few screenshots from the new browser: Pogo Start Springboard – [...]

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AT&T Offers Up Pogo – Do We Need Another Browser?

Sharing Information With Google Reader

pittfall — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:07:40 +0000

Google Reader is a very valuable tool that I am sure many of you are aware of, however, it has offers more than just keeping up with your favorite XML and RSS feeds. It also gives you the ability to share posts from your subscriptions that you find valuable and would be useful to your [...]

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Sharing Information With Google Reader

Yahoo’s Online Social Universe

pittfall — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:58:22 +0000

Yahoo! has been a very influential provider of social services online for quite some time. Over the last few years they have either created or purchased online social sites, here is a quick breakdown of some of the major start-ups and acquisitions: ———————————————————————————————— 2005 ———————————————————————————————— name: flickr acquired purpose: photo sharing similar to: DropShots status: Top photo and image sharing website online. When [...]

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Yahoo’s Online Social Universe

It’s Official – MSN Webmaster Center is Open for Business

pittfall — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:48:00 +0000

I have outlined the MSN Webmaster Portal Center over the past few months, and now it is open for everyone: Webmaster Tools: Open for Business This week we’re excited to announce that the Live Search Webmaster Center has moved out of its closed beta and we are now open for a public beta. In conjunction with [...]

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It’s Official – MSN Webmaster Center is Open for Business

Google’s Attempt at Ruling Media (ALL MEDIA)

pittfall — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:07:39 +0000

Everyone reading this is at least aware of the value of Google’s empire of advertising online, but do you see the areas that they are building? Today, I reviewed one of the messages at the top of my AdWords account announcing Google Television Ads in beta: New! Place Ads on Television You’ve been invited to participate in [...]

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, [...]

DoFollow Plugin

pittfall — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:29:06 +0000

For all bloggers that appreciate their comments and building a community around their websites, the idea of not giving at least a little link love sounds preposterous. Even though WordPress is widely considered as the best blogging platform available, it comes with a few things that you might want more control over, like adding a [...]

MSN Jumps on the Analytics Train – Project Gatineau in beta

pittfall — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:01:45 +0000

From the adCenter Blog: We are happy to announce that Project Gatineau, Microsoft’s new, free web analytics service, is ready for beta testing and the first invitations are now being sent to customers. To manage Project Gatineau’s growth and give customers the best web analytics service possible, the beta is by invitation for US advertisers only [...]

BlogRush Keeps on Creating a Buzz

pittfall — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:01:05 +0000

Since the launch of BlogRush (still in beta) just over a month ago, there has been buzz all over the blogosphere touting, questioning and now cursing it’s purpose. Even a simple search for BlogRush at Sphinn returns 2 pages of results with 8 posts that have “gone hot” regarding the topic. Now that there has been so [...]

Google Analytics 101 from O’Reilly

pittfall — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:04:45 +0000

Have you ever wondered how to adjust analytics to be fully functional without having to sell the farm to get what you need to be able to improve your websites? Google Analytics is the answer, right? Google Analytics has long been the thrifty marketers answered prayers when it comes to a robust analytics package that doesn’t [...]

More Information from Microsoft on Webmaster Portal Beta

pittfall — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:33:07 +0000

Today I received more information about the new Webmaster Portal Beta coming soon: Live Search Webmaster Portal Beta Thank you for filling out the survey for the Live Search Webmaster Portal Beta program! In order to provide the highest level of service to our Beta Partners, we have started off the beta program with our first group of [...]

Google Wants You to Be Social and Share Your Stuff

pittfall — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:36:55 +0000

Google has launched a social bookmarking service aptly named Shared Stuff quietly. But the news is out: Google Shared Stuff – Google Blogscoped Google Launches Google Shared Stuff – Search Engine Land Google Shared Stuff is Delicious – Marketing Pilgrim Google Wants You To Share Stuff – TechCrunch Google and Being Social – John Battelle’s Searchblog Here is the best description [...]