source mlb.com No matter if you are a big baseball fan or not, you have probably heard about the history that has already been made and the opportunity for more to come. Already has taken place: 1st time in 14 years since there was no New York team in the playoffs. 1st time since 1907 that two teams from Chicago were in the postseason. 1st time ever that Los Angeles has had two teams in the playoffs. 1st time since 1907-1908 that the Cubs have had back to back playoff appearances. So... Read Full Story

Stephen King has never really played by a traditional set of rules, it shows in his books and in the way he markets his products. I must be perfectly transparent, I am a huge King fan and enjoy his writing more than any other author, I own over 60 of his books and have at least 10 more about the writer. One important thing to point out, Stephen King has always been involved in the user’s experience. He hasn’t written for the critics and has always held his relationship with his readers the... Read Full Story

There aren’t many events that have touched so many, not only in the United States, but worldwide. I hope that when there is another event that brings everyone together it is for something greater than the loss of life of so many by so few. “I have been driven to my knees many times because there was no place else to go.” - Abraham Lincoln National 911 Memorial Copyright © 2008, by Stephen Pitts aka SEOpittfall.com, All Rights Reserved. Seven Years Copyright © 2008, by Stephen Pitts aka... Read Full Story

Google hits 10 years old today, Happy Birthday… glad to see you make it out of beta! Then Now The Company Google Inc. was founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page to make it easier to find high-quality information on the web. The company is based on three years of research in web search and data mining done by the founders in the Stanford University Computer Science Department. Google Inc.’s headquarters are located in scenic downtown Palo Alto, California. Google Inc. is not at... Read Full Story

What a whirlwind of activity that has surrounded the launch of a new browser. I don’t remember any browser getting this amount of buzz than Google has with Chrome. I really wanted to start posting information on Monday afternoon when the info leaked out and the firestorm got started. But I wanted to see how it all played out and has it been a ride! There have been a lot of rumors that Google would develop their own operating system (OS) and their very own browser. The rumors about a Google... Read Full Story

Mash has fallen! I posted about Yahoo! Mash last September when it was released in private beta and only available through an invitation. Now, Yahoo! will be scraping the fledgling social site, never having a real understanding of it’s true potential. In my first post about Mash, I posed the question: Can this give Yahoo an edge in the social market that many consider they have owned since taking it from AOL until MySpace and Facebook came showed on the scene a few years back? I guess we... Read Full Story

Back in May, I noticed what appeared to be a test by Google to add more relevancy to search engine result (SERPs) by publishing a search box for geographical modifiers to a requested search query (Google Pushing Local Results). See image below: If you used the “looking for local” search box, this would modify the SERPs to show a geographical target and return a map of local results. I am sure many of you have seen this, but an example is given below: Google has taken it a step further... Read Full Story

Next week, I will be headed to Seattle, WA for the Expert Seminar hosted by SEOmoz. This looks to be a very interesting two days of expert education covering a list of topics beyond entry level SEO: Elite Site Architecture for Enterprise, E-Commerce and Micro-Targeted Domains White Hat Cloaking “Avoid Being Labeled a “False Positive” - How Black Hat Tactics Impact White Hat Websites” The Site Review Process SEO Action Items from the Legal World Improving SEO through Content Licensing... Read Full Story

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 a whole. So, seeing that the Olympics is starting soon, I see a very relevant correlation between triathlon and SEO. A triathlon is an endurance sports event consisting of swimming, cycling and... Read Full Story

Back in September 2007 I posted about a new search engine on the horizon called Cuill, the next “Google Killer”. Since then, not much has come out about the engine, except additional funding and concerns with their crawlers. Now they have launched their search application and shortened their name to Cuil. Why so special? The company’s main claim is that it can index web pages significantly faster and cheaper than Google can - Cuill has told potential investors that their indexing costs will... Read Full Story