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Caught Gaming Google

pittfall — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:51:31 +0000

The retailer JCPenney was ousted on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 by David Segal of the New York Times with the help of research from Doug Pierce of Blue Fountain Media directly to Matt Cutts of Google that they had amassed impressive rankings that appeared to have been supported by a large number questionable links. Unlike [...]

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Caught Gaming Google

Special Delivery – IP & User Agent

pittfall — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:20:13 +0000

What is IP Address or User Agent delivery? Both of these tactics are blackhat techniques to deliver different content to different visitors. So, what’s so bad about that? Really, cookies and settings used to store preferences and such that make a website more user focused, right? The difference between giving users a unique experience and [...]

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Special Delivery – IP & User Agent

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 [...]

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Link Building 2.0 – Link Development in Web 2.0

Bounce – Better Than SearchWiki?

pittfall — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:27:37 +0000

Looking at the search landscape over just the past few months, it can be easy to see that professional SEO is not for the faint of heart. Search engines are always trying to make adjustments to their results and offerings to differentiate themselves from their competition, just like other competing businesses. For those of us [...]

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Bounce – Better Than SearchWiki?

Fishing for Links

pittfall — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:48:31 +0000

In October of last year, Google made some major adjustments to PageRank because of paid links, then in November, Google noted that buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and asked for webmasters to report them. I have heard, since this time, from a few sources, that this [...]

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Fishing for Links

Google Wants YOU to Report Paid Links!

pittfall — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:46:36 +0000

As reported by Philipp Lenssen, Barry Schwartz, Tamar Weinberg and Loren Baker, Google has updated their Webmaster Help Center question regarding Paid Links: Google and most other search engines use links to determine reputation. A site’s ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to it. Link-based analysis [...]

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Google Wants YOU to Report Paid Links!

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

Will RSS Go the Way of Reciprocal Linking? SEO Laziness 101

pittfall — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:24:59 +0000

Today a well known blogger propositioned a new “link scheme” calling it Link Exchange 2.0. The idea came from CopyBlogger back in 2006 when writing about effective ways to get more subscribers to your feeds: Find a blogger that publishes related, but non-competitive content. Work out a deal where you both promote each other in [...]

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Will RSS Go the Way of Reciprocal Linking? SEO Laziness 101

GWC – Revival of the Penalty Notifications

pittfall — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:41:38 +0000

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 [...]

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GWC – Revival of the Penalty Notifications

What is SEO? part 4 – Search Engine Optimization Defined

pittfall — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:24:47 +0000

OK, so I have covered three very important aspects of Search Engine Optimization: Link Popularity Content Age Now, I will get down to the main reason for these posts, my definition of SEO: Search Engine Optimization (SEO): an application of marketing a website through development, implementation, management and maintenance for improving a user’s experience to [...]

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What is SEO? part 4 – Search Engine Optimization Defined

What is SEO?

pittfall — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:42:21 +0000

What is SEO, really? Google should have a good idea, feel free to go to Google and enter the query: “define:seo.” You can verify it, but, Google returns 26 results for the definition of SEO on the Internet. Most of these are consistent, however, they all focused on the end result of Search Engine Optimization, [...]

Blog Linkbait

pittfall — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:40:00 +0000

Blog Linkbait Are you a blog all-star? Find out here! SEO Book defines link bait as: The art of targeting, creating, and formatting information that provokes the target audience to point high quality links at your site. Many link baiting techniques are targeted at social media and bloggers. So, is linkbait wrong? Speaking from a [...]

Link Laundering – The New (Black Hat) Link Behavior

pittfall — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:20:00 +0000

What is a link? A simple question that has one definition, but many degrees of complexity. So, we all know what a link is, right? OK, so just knowing what a link is doesn’t mean we know what to do with them! Let’s look at different types of links: Inbound or Backlinks. Outbound or websites [...]

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 [...]

Spam Defined

pittfall — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:53:00 +0000

Spam Defined This is a valuable resource for up and coming SEOs and existing SEOs. Spam is used by many Black Hat SEOs to artificially inflate the ranking (organically or otherwise). There are many different Spam Techniques: 1. Keywords unrelated to the content of the site (a rose by any other name, IS STILL NOT [...]