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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 [...]

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Google – In Search for SPAM

News from MSN/Live Search and the Fight Against Spam

pittfall — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:46:55 +0000

What is the purpose of spam? Well, when it is in your “inbox” it is usually a phishing agent trying to get information that can be sold (money), when it is in search results it is a bit more direct (money). Either way, your information is valuable and your wallet is more direct. Bill Slawski [...]

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News from MSN/Live Search and the Fight Against Spam

Seven SEO Myths

pittfall — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:15:09 +0000

Last month, Lee Odden from Online Marketing Blog covered a few myths of SEO. I will not share all of them, but a few are important to understand: 1. Search Engine Optimization is a collection of tricks to fool search engines. You may not think SEO is rocket science, however, the only techniques that attempt [...]

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Seven SEO Myths

What is SEO? part 2

pittfall — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:58:34 +0000

In my last post, I noted that there are three major components of Search Engine Optimization: The first was, of course, Link Popularity. The second is (drum roll please): Content What? That’s it? Yes! I would like to say, content, in my mind, is anything that you provide to your users. Content can be photos, [...]

Spam Defined

pittfall — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:53:00 +0000

Spam Defined This is a valuable resource for up and coming SEOs and existing SEOs. Spam is used by many Black Hat SEOs to artificially inflate the ranking (organically or otherwise). There are many different Spam Techniques: 1. Keywords unrelated to the content of the site (a rose by any other name, IS STILL NOT [...]