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Ranting & Raving

Winner of Google SEMMY; Sitelinks Research Recognized

February 4, 2009

New to my blog? You may want to learn more about me, subscribe to my RSS feed or follow me on Twitter.I wasn’t expecting too much in the form of good news today.
Readers and peers in the search engine marketing space found my panle on Google SiteLinks to be useful and worth some degree of [...]

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Finalist for Two Seperate SEMMY Awards

January 28, 2009

I’ve been named a finalist in two separate SEMMY Award categories. Please support the SEMMY Awards and their fairness by voting for what you feel are the best articles prior to .
Google 2009 Finalist
Sitelinks Research, Examples, Theories and Best Practices
This post came shortly after my SMX East 2008 Panel on Google SiteLinks. With assistance, feedback [...]

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Ranting on Criticism, Innovation, Ethics and Conversation

November 16, 2008

Criticism and innovation are nothing new to our small, opinionated and fiery industry. If you’re not truly  passionate about search, you’re not going to make it in this space. At least not long.
I was reminded of how passionate I can become when I was speaking Monday night. I said a few things that in may [...]

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¡Yo quiero SEO! Taco Bell’s Simple SEO Failures

November 13, 2008

Last night I thought I wanted Taco Bell for dinner. Somehow the gastrointestinal torture was an acceptable trade off for that delicious grade D beef that was cooked about three months ago and frozen before being shipped cross country in warm container trucks.
Not knowing what I wanted though, I went to check their menu online.
Do [...]

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Srsly Google, WTF?

October 28, 2008

Mini rant time. Every other week my blog up and disappears from the Google SERPs for my name.  It’s annoying when my silly, unoptimized blog can’t even appear for a search on “eric lander“.
It could be entirely optimized, but I have actual paying clients.  So, that’s not really worth the time right now.  Or, someone [...]

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Tynt’s CEO Derek Ball Responds to SEO Community Concerns

September 11, 2008

My lengthy blog post last night regarding the concerns webmasters and search engine marketers have regarding the new Tynt Beta service was met with cult-like following.  While my post received attention from sources like Twitter and Sphinn, where many shared my views – it also helped Tynt to understand concerns and prepare a response plan.
Talk [...]

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