2/20/07
Boser Serves Up A Recipe Of Common Sense
Rants in Bitchland
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I don’t normally post about “news” going on in our industry. I don’t understand the “contests” that arise in this industry at times and never participate in them. To each their own, but I agree with Boser’s sentiments on the Chef Dave Pasternack issue.
As capable individuals in this industry, we have the ability to control what we rank for and I personally see much more value in spending that time to gain visitors to sites selling things that will make me money and not gain ranks on something that serves only to stroke my ego. Fun is fun, but cold hard cash is cold hard cash. Yes, the alternate Dave said some stupid things, but karma has a way of rectifying things in a way a contest never could.
I would suggest that whoever wins the cash for this thing spends the winnings on hiring a writer to call up the real David Pasternack’s seafood restaurant in New York to interview him and write a subsequent article about this famous chef to place on a page that will automatically be able to take the top slot for Dave Pasternack and be able to direct the traffic on this term to the Dave worth reading about.
This Dave? Well, seems he’s on his own. ;-)
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I don’t have a problem with people trying to be number one for their name even if there is someone else better known who has the same name. However, the SEO contest going on is probably crossing the line. I think you have a good idea with the winner if their name isn’t Dave Pasternack to put up info on the chef and drive traffic to him.
I couldn’t agree more about the “news” items that have started to pass for blog entries on many top bloggers sites.
I get the RSS feed to several blogs and I’m tired of seeing the same news story passed off as a blog post on every site. If I want news, I’ll go to Google or Yahoo!, I come to blogs for opinion and commentary.
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