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The Pitfalls of SEO – SEO Simplified

pittfall — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:38:57 +0000

Sometimes it is easy to get lost in the details of SEO. This is a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball. You got it? - Bull Durham Don’t get me wrong, SEO does require some advanced techniques to compete in most of the top areas, but it does boil down [...]

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The Pitfalls of SEO – SEO Simplified

Link Building Tips – Google Alerts

pittfall — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:09:47 +0000

Link building is one of the most important and most difficult tasks in SEO. The most difficult thing to do is to get others to talk about your site and publish a link to your site, hopefully with anchor text, or alt element for image links, that contains a keyword that is important to your [...]

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Link Building Tips – Google Alerts

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 has had a profound [...]

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Link Building 2.0 – Link Development in Web 2.0

Baiting the Waters for Link Success

pittfall — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:01:12 +0000

Linkbaiting, like many forms of link development and viral marketing, is a double edged sword. It can dramatically influence you inbound link profile (IBLP) for the benefit or detriment of your organic search performance. Being too effective in non-influential spaces can clutter your link profile and not reach your ultimate goal of conversions. Linkbaiting, like [...]

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Baiting the Waters for Link Success

How to Win Links and Influence Webmasters

pittfall — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:14:52 +0000

Direct requests for inbound links are a valuable way to build quality links to your website, however, the effectiveness of requesting links is directly linked (no pun intended) to the delivery of the request. For those who are looking for an automated means or a template that works can stop reading, because to put it [...]

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How to Win Links and Influence Webmasters

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

Directory Submissions for Success

pittfall — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:31:54 +0000

Welcome to the third post in my latest series, Holistic Link Building 101. When it comes to building a website for SEO success, link development is an extremely important part of an effective online marketing strategy. Two important questions about link development regarding directory submissions: 1. Are directory submissions still a relevant tactic and worth [...]

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Directory Submissions for Success

Holistic Link Building Defined

pittfall — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:55:35 +0000

In my last post, Holistic Link Building 101, the beginning of a series of post was embarked upon and the topic is very subjective. When it comes to building a website for SEO success, however, link building or development is an extremely important part of an effective online marketing strategy. Like other SEO tactics, holistic [...]

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Holistic Link Building Defined

Holistic Link Building 101

pittfall — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:52:13 +0000

Link building is one of the most challenging aspects of SEO and it doesn’t appear that some people really get it, but that is no different than most SEO concepts. A lot of people find a nugget of SEO wisdom, apply thought, reason and ride it like a horse until it can easily become apparent [...]

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Holistic Link Building 101

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

Green Link Building – Part 2 of 2

pittfall — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:29:30 +0000

In the first post about Green Link Building, I explained my classification of links that make up a “greener” Internet. I expressed which sources of links I would consider to be a positive influence upon rankings and which shouldn’t be pursued. This post is the final piece of the link building puzzle: techniques to employ [...]

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Green Link Building – Part 2 of 2

Green Link Building – part 1 of 2

pittfall — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:53:51 +0000

This is the first post about thinking greener when building links. This post is about understanding different types of links plus when and why the different types of links will be important depending on what type of site you are building links for. The second post, to follow, will be about the three “R’s” of [...]

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Green Link Building – part 1 of 2

SEO: The Online Triathlon

pittfall — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:58:04 +0000

I am a very competitive person when it comes to many different areas including athletics, games and even sports teams. The fact that I work in the SEO industry is no different. I am pushing myself both in learning what is relevant to their market and keeping abreast of the changes in the industry as [...]

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SEO: The Online Triathlon

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 is [...]

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Google Wants YOU to Report Paid Links!

Google Says Boo! and SEOs Run to Hide

pittfall — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:58:29 +0000

OK, this week has been a rocky one in the social arenas surrounding the SEO communities. Why? Google has made a BIG statement by updating the PageRank visible from the Google Toolbar. It all started on Wednesday when many notable websites dropped 2 to 3 points in the little green bar. Much speculation ensued and alarm [...]

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Google Says Boo! and SEOs Run to Hide

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 your [...]

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

PeekYou.com – Online Reputation Management

pittfall — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:00:46 +0000

PeekYou.com is a new way for you to manage and control your reputation online: PeekYou is a new kind of online white pages. A PeekYou profile helps other people find your websites, social-networking pages, photos, or anything else about you online. You can also create a profile for friends or relatives to ensure that they may also [...]

Balanced Link Building

pittfall — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:23:35 +0000

A link is not just a link, they are much more than just a simple way to move from one page to another. Rather, Links are the glue of the Internet! Yeah, yeah, yeah… you’ve heard this before, haven’t you? Then, in the next breathe, you will hear, “content is king!” Right? Really, links are the glue [...]

SoloSEO – Link Search Tool

pittfall — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:27:09 +0000

There are a large number of things that many take for granted because of their time in the SEO arena… Because of this, it is always important to take a step back to see what you are doing and what you are not doing to improve your website for visitors and search engines. That is why [...]

Link Bait and Viral Marketing = Traffic – So What!

pittfall — Sat, 26 May 2007 15:14:53 +0000

This is a topic that I have really considered to be an area of concern for me as an online marketing professional. So, what are link bait and viral marketing? Link Baiting: 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 [...]

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 [...]

PageRank – What It Is and What It Is Not

pittfall — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:37:00 +0000

Here is the definition of PageRank from Google: PageRank, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. Before this they claim that it is “the heart of our technology,” however, this is no longer the case, actually it hasn’t been the case for many years. The basic [...]

New Tools for Optimizing Your Website

pittfall — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:55:51 +0000

Beanstalk has added yet another tool for use by all that will help you to know your website better, your competition and gives you the insight to make informed changes to address your optimization efforts. Search Engine Spider Test – a concise tool that reports some important information for any given page: URL Meta Title Meta Description Meta Keywords Size Text Word Count Distinct [...]

Link Reputation

pittfall — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:15:11 +0000

In a recent post on Link Week, Eric Ward spoke of link reputation and what it says about you, your site and the value you pass to those you link to. When building a link relationship it is not about quantity, rather quality. With this being said, posting a link to another website can be like [...]