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Caught Gaming Google

pittfall — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:51:31 +0000

The retailer JCPenney was ousted on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 by David Segal of the New York Times with the help of research from Doug Pierce of Blue Fountain Media directly to Matt Cutts of Google that they had amassed impressive rankings that appeared to have been supported by a large number questionable links. Unlike [...]

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Caught Gaming Google

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

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

Die Duplicate Content Die!

pittfall — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:41:51 +0000

What does canonical mean? According to a biology glossary from the University of Arizona it is “repetitive; repeating in different forms“. So, what does it mean to online publishers? Simply, duplicate content. How does duplicate content exist, what is it’s impact on search engines and, more importantly, how does it affect online publishers in search [...]

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Die Duplicate Content Die!

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 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 [...]

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Google Says Boo! and SEOs Run to Hide

New York Times Provides a Glimpse of Google’s Intent

pittfall — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:35:26 +0000

An introspective look at Google was published today in The New York Times entitled “Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine.” At first thought, Duh! But after spending a couple of minutes of reading, it really gives a great look into the inner workings of the most influential (and most important, in my mind) group of [...]

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New York Times Provides a Glimpse of Google’s Intent

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. [...]

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PageRank – What It Is and What It Is Not

On Page SEO

pittfall — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:26:00 +0000

Search Engine Optimization is not just a technique that will help you improve your position on SERPs (search engine results pages), but it is also about giving your visitors what they are looking for on your website. I have covered the three important aspects of SEO, however, there are many facets to SEO. Matt Cutts [...]

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On Page SEO

Google Infrastructure Update

pittfall — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:26:51 +0000

Yesterday, Google began releasing an infrastructure update. This included a PageRank to the toolbar, and domain query results like “related:”, “link:” and “info:”. Matt Cutts commented on his blog with more details of the update. His remarks included something that I would consider extremely significant to SEO: “Having urls in the supplemental results doesn’t mean [...]

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Google Infrastructure Update

What is SEO?

pittfall — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:42:21 +0000

What is SEO, really? Google should have a good idea, feel free to go to Google and enter the query: “define:seo.” You can verify it, but, Google returns 26 results for the definition of SEO on the Internet. Most of these are consistent, however, they all focused on the end result of Search Engine Optimization, [...]

Wikiasari Community Search

pittfall — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:02:00 +0000

Wikiasari Community Search “Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken. Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will change all that. There have [...]

Christmas Wishes – “You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out Kid”

pittfall — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:53:00 +0000

Christmas Wishes – “You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out Kid” Recently, PSKoch posted on Pandia about his wish list for the holidays from Google. Matt Cutts, I guess a resident elf or possibly the big man himself, responded to a wish for more frequent PageRank updates: “…on #7, we slowed down external PageRank updates because if [...]

Are Links Dead – Insight from Hilltop

pittfall — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:20:00 +0000

Are Links Dead – Insight from Hilltop I have been in the SEO community for almost three years now. It has been a strange and interesting trip. Many times in forums, communication with other SEOs, blog posts and others I have seen many people with the opinion that links died with the onset of the [...]

PageRank Explained – By the Creators

pittfall — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:01:00 +0000

PageRank Explained Do you have a question? Who would have the answer? Well, the source, of course! Sometimes they are known as the experts, but when they are the creators, they would be the true resources. Right? Well this only makes sense, but may SEOs and Webmasters have failed to see the obvious. Google is [...]