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Insights that Lead to Success in SEO – Part 2

pittfall — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:14:39 +0000

In the first installment, I looked at tools that will help provide insights into finding the right keywords to optimize for that will lead to success in SEO. Now we will look at other tools and information to refine and/or expand your keyword list giving you additional insights to build and maintain a successful SEO [...]

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Insights that Lead to Success in SEO – Part 2

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?

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 [...]

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Google Search within Search – User Assistance or Retailer Handicap?

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), [...]

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Technology is not Suited for Small Business – Business Week

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 [...]

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Google AdWords’ Click-to-Call Ending

Conspiracy Theory – AT&T Acquires Ingenio to Fight Google

pittfall — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:33:10 +0000

Monday, AT&T announced that they would acquire Ingenio, the leader in the pay per call marketing technology. To put it simply, a customer enters their phone number and receives a call from the service and is patched through to the advertiser. These advertisements are visible, most notably, on AOL within the sponsored listings. The user [...]

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Conspiracy Theory – AT&T Acquires Ingenio to Fight Google

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 [...]

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Google’s Attempt at Ruling Media (ALL MEDIA)

Google AdWords Tool for Your Marketing Toolbelt

pittfall — Wed, 23 May 2007 04:16:54 +0000

As tools have progressed through the years, simple reporting tools are no longer fulfilling the needs of marketers professionals to know who, what, where, when and how people are using their websites. Analytics can answer this for you, but it still doesn’t answer another very important question: What about my competition? Google offers a little [...]

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Google AdWords Tool for Your Marketing Toolbelt

Google Nabs DoubleClick

pittfall — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:11:57 +0000

Google purchased DoubleClick today for almost twice as much as they paid for YouTube. With the announcement, a post on the Official Google Blog was generated: At Google, we are constantly looking for new, innovative ways to make the information you want more accessible and more relevant—and to deliver it as fast as possible. Since [...]

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Google Nabs DoubleClick

AdWords Editor 3.0 Ready for Mac

pittfall — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:07:38 +0000

Hi, I’m a Mac and I’m a PC. Funny thing about Macs, they don’t always have the same functionality as PCs. But now, that has changed, at least for AdWords Editor version 3.0. AdWords Editor 3.0 for Mac is now available and includes all the new features released a few weeks ago for Windows, such [...]

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AdWords Editor 3.0 Ready for Mac

AdWords Editor 3.0

pittfall — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:42:36 +0000

Google has many corporate blogs that are devoted promote and inform people about their products and services. Today, on Inside AdWords, they announced AdWords Editor 3.0. Here are some of the highlighted options in the new version: Add or edit site-targeted campaigns Add or edit negative sites for keyword- and site-targeted campaigns Edit another account [...]

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AdWords Editor 3.0

Google Checkout News

pittfall — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:09:00 +0000

Google News Google has expanded their Picasa Web Albums to include 17 new languages along with English. Other Google News: Google Checkout gives new reasons to merchants to accept the PayPal substitute: Easy coupon creation: Create coupons from the Google Checkout Merchant Center. You can specify $-off discounts and %-off discounts, and add restrictions such [...]

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Google Checkout News

“Every Page is a Landing Page” and Other Concepts of SEO

pittfall — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:42:00 +0000

Every page is a landing page! This is something that I look at each and every time I am working to optimize a website. Other important questions that I always ask myself: “If I am a user that landed here, can I get to where I (as a marketer) want me to go?” Building web [...]

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“Every Page is a Landing Page” and Other Concepts of SEO

Click to Call gets Abused

pittfall — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:27:00 +0000

Click to Call gets Abused Google launched an ambitious and certainly unique marketing program with Click to Call, however, like many of the Google advertising programs, can be subject to abuse by competitors and others. For a brief time yesterday (November 21, 2006), TechCrunch speculated that Google had removed its Click-to-Call function on Google Maps, [...]

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Click to Call gets Abused

Click to Call goes Global (kinda)

pittfall — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 23:18:00 +0000

Click to Call, a new addition to Google’s advertising management system AdWords. Still in beta, the click to call program has not yet been introduced into the mainstream of Google search advertising, but it has now been added to Google Maps. This new program is different from the original because they aren’t charging the businesses [...]

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Click to Call goes Global (kinda)

Here Come the Holidays!

pittfall — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:21:00 +0000

Here Come the Holidays! Well, if you haven’t realized, the holidays are upon us again! AdWords is reminding everyone about “Black Friday” (Friday after Thanksgiving) and “Cyber Monday” (the following Monday). The day after Thanksgiving is traditionally known as “Black Friday” – the busiest shopping day of the year, and what many retailers consider the [...]

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Here Come the Holidays!

More SEO Tips from the AdWords Camp

pittfall — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:46:00 +0000

More SEO Tips from the AdWords Camp Last week, the AdWords blog gave some cross promotional information about other Google Services and even related them to SEO. So, today they offer their second of two postings about other Google products. Once again, one of them relates to SEO. Webmaster Tools Google’s free webmaster tools offer [...]

Google Checkout gets into the Spirit and Spreads Good Cheer

pittfall — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:07:00 +0000

Google Checkout gets into the Spirit and Spreads Good Cheer Imagine if you could use those credit cards for the upcoming holiday season and don’t have to pay interest. Hmm, great idea, isn’t it? Google doesn’t control the Credit Card companies (yet!), but their latest product Google Checkout can at least get retailers in the [...]

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 [...]

Google Fixes a Bug

pittfall — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:22:00 +0000

Google admits to a problem last night. About that fake post from Google Blog – Official by A Googler Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog last night, claiming that we’ve discontinued our AdWords click-to-call test. The bug [...]

Update #2 – Click-to-Call Cancelled

pittfall — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:24:00 +0000

The original blog post has been removed from both the Official Google Blog and the Google Reader feed subscriptions. Because of this, it is safe to assume that this was not intended for release. But, two questions still remain: 1. Will Google’s Click-to-Call Program be dropped? 2. Who is Maximal (the author)? Attention: Conspiracy Theory: [...]

Update to Previous Post – Google Click-to-Call Cancelled

pittfall — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:36:00 +0000

Here are some resources I have found regarding this story: Outer-Court.com Digg.com Copyright © 2004-2011, by Stephen Pitts aka SEOpittfall.com, All Rights Reserved. Contact pittfall@seopittfall.comUpdate to Previous Post – Google Click-to-Call Cancelled

Google – Click to Call Cancelled?

pittfall — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:53:00 +0000

Before being pulled, on the Official Google Blog, an announcement was made saying the Click-to-Call program that has been tested as a part of the AdSense program is being cancelled. The post URL was: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-click-to-call-project-cancelled.html This was received on my Google Reader, however, the post was pulled when attempting to view the actual post. Here [...]

Google Click-to-Call

pittfall — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:52:00 +0000

Google Click-to-Call 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 passing vital information (like phone numbers) for companies that work on a call equals a lead. Reports from the UK, say that it has even surfaced across the pond. [...]