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Ben Pfeiffer / Senior Editor
Ben Pfeiffer is the President and CEO of Rank Smart Search Marketing, an organic search engine optimization and marketing firm. He is an industry veteran, writer, and speaker with over 12 years experience in SEO/SEM and internet marketing. Ben's specialty for the last 10 years has been optimizing websites for the algorithmic organic search in the major search engines. He also specializes in creating and selling start ups, link building, technical SEO, keyword research, competitive analysis, affiliate marketing, domain buy/selling, lead generation, and social media. He has worked with large publicly traded companies to small local businesses.
Ben is a native to Texas and currently resides in New Braunfels, Texas. He enjoys playing big games of capture the flag, photography, extreme weather, and fishing. You can find him on Twitter or Google+.
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Most Recent Entries
You May Never Recover From Google's Penguin
May 2, 2013 - 8:44 am 159 — by Ben PfeifferNo More Posts This Week - SER Taking Brief Holiday
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Aug 12, 2011 - 11:57 am 18 — by Ben PfeifferBuy Google Plus Ones
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Apr 15, 2011 - 1:16 pm 14 — by Ben PfeifferOlder Entries
How to Regain Your Rankings After the Farmer Update
Mar 4, 2011Was Google Too Hasty with the Farmer Update? SEO's Discuss Good & Bad
Mar 3, 2011Is a Twitter Buyout by Google or Facebook Likely?
Feb 11, 2011Google Plans to Add Thousands of New Jobs in 2011
Jan 26, 2011Will Page Load Time Be More Of A Ranking Factor In 2011?
Jan 20, 2011Google May Use The Meta Keywords Tag Again
Jan 17, 2011Optimism Abounds For Some Despite Adsense Earnings Drop
Apr 10, 2009SEO's Discuss Google Webmaster Tools Now Showing Crawl Error Sources
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Dec 31, 2007Who Is Better At Finding Duplicate Content?
Oct 4, 2007How Has The Regionalization of Results Affected Multi-Language and Geolocation Websites?
Sep 28, 2007How long does it take to update site-wide 301 redirects in Google?
Sep 27, 2007Google Webmaster Tools Updates Interface
Sep 14, 2007I Steal Wikipedia Content And Get Away With It!
Sep 13, 2007Are eCommerce Websites Really Harder to Get Rankings For?
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