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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’s Sitelinks Become More Transparent

pittfall — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:05:35 +0000

Today, over at Google Webmaster Central, Search Quality made an announcement about webmasters providing feedback about what sitelinks they provide to users for your website and which links you may want to remove. Now, Webmaster Tools lets you view potential sitelinks for your site and block the ones you don’t want to appear in Google [...]

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Google’s Sitelinks Become More Transparent

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

Setting an Expiration Date on Content

pittfall — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:23:25 +0000

Breaking News! Google is coming out with a new tag called “unavailable_after” which will allow people to tell Google when a particular page will no longer be available for crawling. For instance, if you have a special offer on your site that expires on a particular date, you might want to use the unavailable_after tag [...]

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Setting an Expiration Date on Content

Don’t Follow Google’s Mistakes

pittfall — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:50:39 +0000

This is not an attempt to bash Google. However, you can sometimes learn what not to do from some very successful people and products. Google has been extremely active in the last year adding services and developing products for users and webmasters alike, however, in some instances they have missed the mark. Here are some [...]

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Don’t Follow Google’s Mistakes

Google – In Search for SPAM

pittfall — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:56:11 +0000

In an effort to help provide users with more relevant results, Google is now encouraging users to report spam in their query results: Today, in response to your request, we’re providing a paid links reporting form within Webmaster Tools. To use the form, simply log in and provide information on the sites buying and selling [...]

Sitemaps.org Announces Autodiscovery Protocol

pittfall — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:58:54 +0000

In four separate announcements today from Ask, Google, MSN and Yahoo have announced a new robots.txt protocol for a sitemap autodiscovery on Sitemaps.org. Ask.com – The first bit of news is that Ask.com has joined their counterparts in the development of Sitemaps.org. Ask.com is now supporting submission of Sitemaps via http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=SitemapUrl. We are excited about [...]

Google Gives Webmasters a Better View of Inbound Links

pittfall — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:35:29 +0000

In a few posts today Google announced that they are giving webmasters more information to monitor your inbound links: We want to provide as much information as we can to help webmasters understand how their sites perform and how to improve their results. And we want to get input from the site owners, who after [...]