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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

Link Building Via Content Development

pittfall — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:41:07 +0000

Maybe you have heard some of the cliches about content: If you build it they will come! Content is King! Really? Yes, it is true. However, what most of the people that use these and other cliches about content development and link acquisition fail to share the details about what content development can directly impact link building. Great content [...]

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Link Building Via Content Development

Behold the Power of Social Media

pittfall — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:41:39 +0000

Facebook, a social networking platform that I am sure you are aware of has been attracting the attention of quite a number of users for quite some time. As seen in the Google Trends chart here, you can see the impact as compared to others like MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn. They don’t appear to be [...]

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Behold the Power of Social Media

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

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 [...]

MyBlogLog Steps Up Authority for Blog Communities

pittfall — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:25:25 +0000

Today, MyBlogLog added a new feature to the online blog communities… to put it simply, a validation process to verify that you are the owner of the website and have authority over the community. Why verify? As an owner of community on MyBlogLog, the Verified check mark is like a “seal of approval.” This shows anyone who [...]

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MyBlogLog Steps Up Authority for Blog Communities

New Look for SEOpittfall in 2008

pittfall — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:41:42 +0000

After a while you have a tendency to want a change, so for the new year, I have changed themes and after an afternoon of work… Tada! It has a few features that were in the old theme and is based upon Gluttony from WPdesigner. I must stress that I am not a programmer, so, if you [...]

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New Look for SEOpittfall in 2008

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

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 [...]

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BlogRush Keeps on Creating a Buzz

Mash – Yahoo!’s Answer to MySpace and Facebook

pittfall — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:03:17 +0000

Yahoo has released an online social portal into beta, Yahoo! Mash. As you can see from the photo of my profile (above), it has some of the same look and feel of MySpace, without all of the advertisements (for now at least). Here are the basic components of a Yahoo Mash profile page: Basic info - Photo - Name - Quote - [...]

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Mash – Yahoo!’s Answer to MySpace and Facebook

Squid What? – Squidoo Builds People Search SquidWho

pittfall — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:31:02 +0000

Squidoo has launched a new portal called SquidWho “A people-powered Who’s Who on the Web.” Here is the basic info: SquidWho is the first people-built who’s who. It’s an easy way to find out what’s what (and where) about famous (and not so famous) people around the world. If you’re a fan of someone, build a page [...]

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Squid What? – Squidoo Builds People Search SquidWho

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

Nerd Test Meme

pittfall — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:33:17 +0000

I have not really ever considered myself a “nerd” per say, however, after being tagged by Bill at SEO by the Sea, I figured, what the heck, give it a whirl! Much to my surprise, I ranked a bit higher than expected, 88 to be exact. I decided before taking the test, not to use the [...]

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Nerd Test Meme

New Features from MyBlogLog

pittfall — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:26:16 +0000

MyBlogLog is a portal for social networking around blogs. Since Yahoo purchased them earlier this year, not many visible changes have happened, but recently Yahoo announced that they will be focusing more attention on building MyBlogLog to be a better portal and possibly re-branding them. The first major addition to what MyBlogLog is offering has happened: Tagging Eric [...]

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New Features from MyBlogLog

One Day Blog Silence

pittfall — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:38:42 +0000

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One Day Blog Silence

Code of Conduct or Common Sense

pittfall — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:30:00 +0000

Just a few weeks ago, Tim O’Reilly called for a blogger’s code of conduct and subsequently, and even with all of the April fool’s jokes that hit the web and blogosphere the following day it was not lost. NPR’s Morning Edition jumped into the discussion earlier this week (Wednesday, April 18, 2007), you can hear [...]

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Code of Conduct or Common Sense

Why I Blog – SEOPittfall.com

pittfall — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:58:24 +0000

Recently, Eric Hebert tagged me with this topic and I though that it provides for insight into what SEOPittfall is about, it’s purpose, what I am trying to accomplish with my blog. Why I Blog 1. Build my Reputation. A professional reputation is as important as it ever was and in today’s online world it is [...]

MyBlogLog Announces Community Manager

pittfall — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:00:35 +0000

MyBlogLog has found their community manager in Robyn Tippins of Sleepy Blogger, and they have announced her responsibilities up front: Comprehensive FAQ Integration guides Community bulletin boards Yahoo! Customer Care integration Spearhead changes to the site that cut down on confusion. I look, with great anticipation, for Robyn’s role and keeping the momentum since before the Yahoo acquisition to keep rolling! I [...]

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 [...]

Focus on What is Important

pittfall — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:26:58 +0000

Recently I was asked to be interviewed for a new blog that is being created. So what, right? I am not tooting my own horn, but many of the questions were very thought out. I would like to share one of them: Q. Why do you blog? friends, networking, verification of information, recognition? A. I have a [...]

Yellowbot.com – Social Networking and Local Search

pittfall — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:07:45 +0000

Yellowbot is live. Yellowbot in it’s simplest form is an online directory similar to the old yellow pages book that is delivered to your door on a yearly basis. But if you think that it is just a directory of a huge database of business listings with names, addresses, phone numbers, website address and such, you [...]

Search Marketing Blogs

pittfall — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:35:36 +0000

I would like to thank Lee Odden and all of my readers for helping me to become one of the top 400 most valuable Search Marketing Blogs. Here is the updated OPML file and plain text list. Copyright © 2010, by Stephen Pitts aka SEOpittfall.com, All Rights Reserved. Contact pittfall@seopittfall.comSearch Marketing Blogs

The Machine is Us/ing Us

pittfall — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:10:42 +0000

Digital Ethnography has completed their project and has released the final edit of The Machine is Us/ing Us. Here are a few thoughts from the author: On January 31st I released the 2nd draft of The Machine is Us/ing Us hoping to receive feedback from my colleagues. (The first draft was only seen by my Digital Ethnography [...]

Tagged by Eric Lander

pittfall — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:49:42 +0000

First, I must apologize to Eric. He tagged me on January 31st, and I knew about it the following day, but I have not responded yet. 1. What have you learned so far from visitors to your blog? OK, I have learned (realized) that I don’t know quite as much as I thought I did, but, I [...]