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Reflections on Five Years as an SEO Blogger

pittfall — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:24:02 +0000

What a strange trip it’s been! Just a few days after Google’s purchase of Blogger in 2003, I began down this trek into blogging to see the difference between a blog and other web publishing tools (such as GeoCities, now closing), specifically for their influence and impact on SERPs for my company’s websites. Not that [...]

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Reflections on Five Years as an SEO Blogger

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

WordPress Turbo – Powered by Thesis

pittfall — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:30:42 +0000

WordPress, along with other personal publishing platforms like MovableType and Blogger, have given everyone the ability to publish their thoughts and experiences online for the world to see. Each of these different content management systems offer different solutions including hosted and self-hosted answers. I started blogging through a hosted Blogger site for two and a [...]

Move Completed – Welcome to SEOpittfall 2.0

pittfall — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:44:08 +0000

I would like to thank everyone for their patience as SEOpittfall.com has been moving hosting. SEOpittfall 2.0 WordPress 2.5 SEOpittfall has been upgraded to WordPress 2.5 URL changes The URL string has been updated to include the post and page titles into the URL. Category Housecleaning I have updated the categories to only include the [...]

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Move Completed – Welcome to SEOpittfall 2.0

New Look for SEOpittfall in 2008

pittfall — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:41:42 +0000

After a while you have a tendency to want a change, so for the new year, I have changed themes and after an afternoon of work… Tada! It has a few features that were in the old theme and is based upon Gluttony from WPdesigner. I must stress that I am not a programmer, so, [...]

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New Look for SEOpittfall in 2008

Blogs in Plain English Video from Common Craft

pittfall — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:27:09 +0000

Common Craft has put together another great video with common sense and explaining complex issues with a dash of common sense and a lot of comfort that breaks down the anxiety that can hold people back from trying new things. Enjoy! Copyright © 2004-2011, by Stephen Pitts aka SEOpittfall.com, All Rights Reserved. Contact pittfall@seopittfall.comBlogs in [...]

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Blogs in Plain English Video from Common Craft

DoFollow Plugin

pittfall — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:29:06 +0000

For all bloggers that appreciate their comments and building a community around their websites, the idea of not giving at least a little link love sounds preposterous. Even though WordPress is widely considered as the best blogging platform available, it comes with a few things that you might want more control over, like adding a [...]

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DoFollow Plugin

Push Button Solutions for Bloggers

pittfall — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:39:46 +0000

Feedburner, recently acquired by Google, has taken a step for their users using another of Google’s products, Blogger. I know what many are thinking… Blogger and WordPress.org blogs are for fair-weather or social bloggers… but I think that anyone that contributes (not copies) content to the Internet are valuable. From Burning Questions: …we are very [...]

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Push Button Solutions for Bloggers

Blogger Offers New Widgets

pittfall — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:35:07 +0000

Blogger has announced two new elements available for users on their blogs: Newsreel Video Bar To add to their list of elements that are available in the latest Blogger Templates: List Link List Picture Text HTML/JavaScript AdSense Feed Labels Logo Profile Similar to Google Alerts, the Newsreel allows you to choose the keywords that you [...]

SEOpittfall Looks Different

pittfall — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:15:35 +0000

I know, for those of you who followed me from Build a Better Website, it has been just under a month since SEOPittfall.com has been live and I am already messing around with the look. Since I started publishing here, I have been messing around with the layout. I am way too picky for a [...]

Blogger in Beta Gets Better

pittfall — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:05:00 +0000

Blogger in Beta Gets Better Blogger announced that all new accounts will be in the Beta version. Today we’ve reached another milestone in our transition to a better Blogger: all new accounts are being created on the new version of Blogger in beta. This hugely exciting for us, because now all new users will get [...]

SEO Tips from the AdWords Camp?

pittfall — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:18:00 +0000

SEO Tips from the AdWords Camp? What do you know? If you are anything like me, you are probably ready the weekend, finishing things up in the office so they don’t haunt you on Monday. If not, oh well. Apparently the guys and gals down at AdWords on the Google campus had finished up their [...]