Ben Pfeiffer's Search Engine Roundtable Articles

- Latest Article: You May Never Recover From Google's Penguin
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+.
Most recent entries:
- You May Never Recover From Google's Penguin | May 2, 2013
- No More Posts This Week - SER Taking Brief Holiday | October 30, 2012
- Official: Google Panda 2.4 Rolls Out to Most Languages | August 12, 2011
- Buy Google Plus Ones | July 26, 2011
- Will Older Article Post Dates Hurt Your Rankings in Google? | April 15, 2011
- How to Regain Your Rankings After the Farmer Update | March 4, 2011
- Was Google Too Hasty with the Farmer Update? SEO's Discuss Good & Bad | March 3, 2011
- Is a Twitter Buyout by Google or Facebook Likely? | February 11, 2011
Older entries:
- Google Plans to Add Thousands of New Jobs in 2011 | January 26, 2011
- Will Page Load Time Be More Of A Ranking Factor In 2011? | January 20, 2011
- Google May Use The Meta Keywords Tag Again | January 17, 2011
- Optimism Abounds For Some Despite Adsense Earnings Drop | April 10, 2009
- SEO's Discuss Google Webmaster Tools Now Showing Crawl Error Sources | October 15, 2008
- Google's Share Price Dips Below $400 After Tense Monday on Wall Street | September 30, 2008
- Google Spidering Encoded HTML in Urls? | April 24, 2008
- Berkowitz Replaced By Lanzone at Microsoft | April 1, 2008
- Dealing With "My Competitor's Are Doing It!" Syndrome | December 31, 2007
- Who Is Better At Finding Duplicate Content? | October 4, 2007
- How Has The Regionalization of Results Affected Multi-Language and Geolocation Websites? | September 28, 2007
- How long does it take to update site-wide 301 redirects in Google? | September 27, 2007
- Google Webmaster Tools Updates Interface | September 14, 2007
- I Steal Wikipedia Content And Get Away With It! | September 13, 2007
- Are eCommerce Websites Really Harder to Get Rankings For? | July 24, 2007
- Google Engineer Reveals New Tag & Best Strategies for Getting Indexed | July 13, 2007
- Search Market Share Update: Google Rises, MSN Falls, Yahoo Hovers | May 24, 2007
- How To Capitalize on Google Universal Search | May 23, 2007
- Yahoo Search Update Last Night | May 23, 2007
- Wikipedia & SEO | April 13, 2007
- Images and Search Engines | April 12, 2007
- Creating Compelling Ads | April 12, 2007
- Landing Page Testing & Tuning | April 11, 2007
- Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues | April 11, 2007
- Introduction to Search Marketing | April 11, 2007
- Domaining & Address Bar-Driven Traffic | April 11, 2007
- In House Big PPC | April 11, 2007
- Ads In A Quality Score World | April 10, 2007
- Where Are Your Spending Your Client's Money? | April 10, 2007
- Compare & Contrast: Ad Program Strategies | April 10, 2007
- Live at Search Engine Strategies New York 2007 | April 10, 2007
- In House: Big SEO | April 10, 2007
- Banner Blindness Becoming Worse: Users Getting More Savvy Identifying Ads In Content | April 4, 2007
- Should You Outsource Link Development in SEO? | April 3, 2007
- What Happens When Your Google Adsense Earnings or EPC Drops Overnight | March 5, 2007
- How Long Do You Spend "Training" A Client After SEO or Design Work Is Done? | February 22, 2007
- Yahoo Search Replacing Site Titles in Search Results Listings | January 15, 2007
- Should I Keep My PPC Search Advertising If I Already Rank #1 Organically? | January 15, 2007
- Supplemental Results Aren't Something To Be Afraid Of | January 11, 2007
- Google Adsense Team Sends Invitations To Webmasters To Help Optimize Ads | January 11, 2007
- MSNDude Still Missing, Webmasters Think He Was Replaced By MSNBot | January 11, 2007
- Mysterious Yahoo Publisher Network Compliance Issues Continue To Puzzle Webmasters | January 11, 2007