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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

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

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Google Says Boo! and SEOs Run to Hide

SponsoredReviews.com is Set to Launch

pittfall — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:00:42 +0000

Yet another pay for post site by the owners of Text Link Brokers has announced that they are putting their hat in the ring. This is fine, however, it helps to dilute the value of a blog. I know, here I stand on my soap box (again), and proclaim the negative results when everything you [...]

Pay Per Post Acquires Performancing

pittfall — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:16:00 +0000

Pay Per Post Acquires Performancing TechCrunch reports that PayPerPost will acquire Performancing tomorrow to acquire new customers: “The main purpose of the acquisition appears to be for PayPerPost to get access to the 28,000 Performancing users, most of whom are bloggers and potential customers of PayPerPost. The popular Performancing Firefox blog editing plugin is not [...]

What About Pay for Post and SEO

pittfall — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:35:00 +0000

Pay for Post may be a new idea in the blogosphere but essentially they are paid for links, which is an old SEO technique where a website pays another to put a text link to their site for two purposes: 1. Visitors will click to the (advertiser’s) website 2. Search engine spiders will follow the [...]

Review Me gets Noticed (by the engines)

pittfall — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:01:00 +0000

Review Me gets Noticed (by the engines) According to SEOBuzzBox, Google engineer Matt Cutts noted as saying or implying: Matt also quickly implies (listen closely) that the disclaimer that ReviewMe and others will use (designating a post as “paid”) might not be good enough. I have posted before about ReviewMe. My personal thoughts are that [...]