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Reflections on Five Years as an SEO Blogger

pittfall — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:24:02 +0000

What a strange trip it’s been! Just a few days after Google’s purchase of Blogger in 2003, I began down this trek into blogging to see the difference between a blog and other web publishing tools (such as GeoCities, now closing), specifically for their influence and impact on SERPs for my company’s websites. Not that there [...]

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Reflections on Five Years as an SEO Blogger

Long Live No Follow

pittfall — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:00:26 +0000

In a recent post at SEOmoz, by Will Critchlow of Distilled, entitled Nofollow is Dying: The Impact of Micro-Blogging and Nofollow on SEO, is a review the overuse of the nofollow link attribute in online publishing by webmasters and 3rd party sites like WordPress.com, Blogger.com and Twitter and it’s impact on SEO for everyone. Before [...]

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Long Live No Follow

Blogs in Plain English Video from Common Craft

pittfall — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:27:09 +0000

Common Craft has put together another great video with common sense and explaining complex issues with a dash of common sense and a lot of comfort that breaks down the anxiety that can hold people back from trying new things. Enjoy! Copyright © 2010, by Stephen Pitts aka SEOpittfall.com, All Rights Reserved. Contact pittfall@seopittfall.comBlogs in Plain English [...]

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Blogs in Plain English Video from Common Craft

Push Button Solutions for Bloggers

pittfall — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:39:46 +0000

Feedburner, recently acquired by Google, has taken a step for their users using another of Google’s products, Blogger. I know what many are thinking… Blogger and Wordpress.org blogs are for fair-weather or social bloggers… but I think that anyone that contributes (not copies) content to the Internet are valuable. From Burning Questions: …we are very excited to announce the [...]

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Push Button Solutions for Bloggers

Blogger Offers New Widgets

pittfall — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:35:07 +0000

Blogger has announced two new elements available for users on their blogs: Newsreel Video Bar To add to their list of elements that are available in the latest Blogger Templates: List Link List Picture Text HTML/JavaScript AdSense Feed Labels Logo Profile Similar to Google Alerts, the Newsreel allows you to choose the keywords that you would like to publish for and [...]

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Blogger Offers New Widgets

Blogger Supports Custom Domains

pittfall — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:05:33 +0000

Blogger Buzz offers exciting news for blogs that are part of Google’s Blogger.com: “The new version of Blogger now supports using a custom domain for serving your blog. If you already own a domain named, say, mysite.com and want your blog to be served at that address instead of at a blogspot.com address, we can host [...]

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Blogger Supports Custom Domains

Still No Beta or The New Version of Blogger

pittfall — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:43:00 +0000

Still No Beta or The New Version of Blogger Blogger Buzz proclaimed on Tuesday: “The new version of Blogger in beta is dead! Long live the new version of Blogger!” Back in October, I like many of my blogger counterparts had to deal with blogger being down in dramatic fashion. Which the engineers responded: “I, like many of you, will [...]

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Still No Beta or The New Version of Blogger

Blogger and Del.icio.us Improve

pittfall — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:01:00 +0000

Blogger and Del.icio.us announced today new improvements for users. Blogger announced some new features, now out of beta: You can add stuff to your blog with limited or no knowledge of HTML Create new templates without knowing CSS Privacy Label Posts New Templates Integration with Google accounts Del.icio.us has a few up their sleeves too: del.icio.us has just released a new badge called the [...]

Blogger in Beta Gets Better

pittfall — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:05:00 +0000

Blogger in Beta Gets Better Blogger announced that all new accounts will be in the Beta version. Today we’ve reached another milestone in our transition to a better Blogger: all new accounts are being created on the new version of Blogger in beta. This hugely exciting for us, because now all new users will get the benefits [...]

SEO Tips from the AdWords Camp?

pittfall — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:18:00 +0000

SEO Tips from the AdWords Camp? What do you know? If you are anything like me, you are probably ready the weekend, finishing things up in the office so they don’t haunt you on Monday. If not, oh well. Apparently the guys and gals down at AdWords on the Google campus had finished up their chores for [...]

How do you Spell Relief for BDA?

pittfall — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:03:00 +0000

How do you Spell Relief for BDA? What is BDA? Blogger is Down Again! If you have a Blogger site and you post with regularity, they you have undoubtedly have been frustrated with the number of times you have tried to log in and blog, but the site is down. “I, like many of you, will look upon [...]