Well I wanted a horse in this race so here we go:
From his bio page:
Dave Pasternack founded Did-it Search Marketing with Kevin Lee in 1996. Prior to Did-it’s founding, he founded United States Information Corporation, which became one of the largest electronic publishers of Federal Government bidding and contract information in the United States. Dave’s first computer industry direct marketing company, Logicsoft, was founded in 1980 and was named by Inc. Magazine as the fastest growing private company of 1984.
It’s The ROI » SEO Contests…Here we go
February 6th, 2007 at 11:15 pm[...] I never see the ROI in SEO contests, Dave Pasternack of Did-It asked for it when he made the bold assertion that SEO consultants were not worth the money. [...]
ROIGuy
February 6th, 2007 at 11:17 pmTodd
I hear by vote you 1 one back link from a lowly SEM Blog. If you can pull this one off, you’ve earned your rockstar status.
Brian Mark
February 7th, 2007 at 8:33 amBlogged, linked, and stumbled. Watch the traffic roll.
Dave Pasternack
February 7th, 2007 at 9:32 amHi Todd,
It’s always a pleasure to run into a genuine “white hat” SEOer. BTW, your entry for Dave Pasternack (that’s me) is showing up in Google’s “News” tab today, although I don’t yet see it in the “Web” tab.
This will be an interesting race!
Sincerely,
Dave Pasternack
President
Did-it Search Marketing
http://www.did-it.com/bios/dave-pasternack.htm
David Dalka - Creating Revenue and Retention - Chicago GSB MBA » Another Reason SEO Matters (Dave Pasternack of Did-it) + Blogroll Submissions
February 12th, 2007 at 1:43 pm[...] http://www.oilman.ca/dave-pasternack/dave-pasternack/ These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
HighRank
February 12th, 2007 at 1:54 pmDave Pasternack trying to link build for his own site? Jackass. Sorry Dave Pasternack, these are nofollow links.
Dave Pasternack
February 13th, 2007 at 1:53 pmI wish I could say that I admire your business communications skills, HighRank, but I do not.
Regards,
Dave Pasternack
Did-it Search Marketing
Advanced Internet Marketing & Affiliate Marketing Blog
February 13th, 2007 at 2:59 pmDave Pasternck Contest Update…
I had a bit of a chuckle yesterday when I checked out the SERPS & Dave Pasternack held the number 1 & number 2 position for the keyword. It’s hovering at position 1 now.
I think I’m sitting around position 19 or so, with little o…
Bill Hartzer
February 13th, 2007 at 3:56 pmBusiness communications skills? Interesting choice of words.
There’s only a few weeks left for this contest, so I thought I’d check in…and see that Graywolf, Oilman, and Webguerilla are back at it again.
I suspect that Dave Pasternack isn’t really trying himself to link build for his own site, I suspect that someone else is most likely doing it.
HighRank
February 13th, 2007 at 6:11 pmDave Pasternack,
Wish I could say I admire your opinions, but I don’t.
Mike
There Will ALWAYS be a Demand for SEO (sorry Pastercrack and Calcanis)
February 13th, 2007 at 6:15 pm[...] Companies that want to grow their business understand the importance of being on the 1st page of Google, Yahoo and even MSN. Even more important is being in the top 5 (Danny has a great post on his review of the recent study by MSN. ) Guess what? Only 10 web pages can show up in the top 10. Know what else? Only 5 pages can be listed in the top 5! Wow! Startling revelation right? Good thing I kept that calculator from statistics class in college. The best results usually come from being listed near the top and anyone that has optimized sites for a living understands that the sites with the best content don’t always show up at the top. It’s the uneducated like Dave Pasternack and Jason Calacanis (SEO-wise undeducated) who make rediculous comments like they’ve been making of late. But hey, they may be playing the link baiting game right? For example, the Pasternack bio page (even with the Pasternack SEO contest) is now # 2 on Google because of the influx of links he acquired after his moronic rant. The bottom line is that competition drives business. Businesses hire SEO companies because they want to grow their revenue by appearing higher in the search engines then their competitors. As long as businesses compete with each other, there will always be a demand for SEO. [...]
Dave Pasternack Link Builder Extraordinaire
February 13th, 2007 at 6:57 pm[...] He’s added a nice footer link on the Did-it site, as Greywolf pointed out Dave Pasternack has been spamming MyBloglog (Dave…have you been watching those incredibly educational Gary Ruplinger videos?). He’s also been all over the SEO blogosphere leaving comments on people like Oilman’s Dave Pasternack page and even no name bloggers like myself. [...]
“The Passion of the Pasternack” by Dave Pasternack | Scoreboard Media Group
February 14th, 2007 at 1:51 am[...] Listen, Pasternack. We all know what you and Jason Calacanis call “SEO” is indeed pretty easy (unless you have idiot clients who unravel all your hard work every three months). In fact, I really don’t even call that SEO anymore. I have always called that Search Engine Compliance. Organize the information in such a way that it optimizes your on-page factors. On-page factors that count, oh, about 5% (at best) in your ability to rank in competitive natural search. [...]
HighRank
February 14th, 2007 at 8:48 amTodd,
You’re now one spot back now of Dave’s bio page in the Dave Pasternack SEO contest. He’s fallen on multiple DC’s to 6 and you’ve moved up to 7.
Mike
WilliamC
February 14th, 2007 at 11:50 amAs usual, your horse is rising fast my friend
Dave Pasternack Seo Contest - Webmaster Words
February 15th, 2007 at 3:08 am[...] Now to be honest I don’t have the time to enter an SEO contest but I do feel that Dave Pasternack made some pretty clueless comments with regards to SEO. Instead i’m gonna through some juice at a couple of guys who blogs are on my feed reader and see if i can bump them up a little. Oilmans Dave Pasternack Page [...]
Ituloy AngSulong News » SEO Website vs. Multimedia Website
February 16th, 2007 at 4:44 am[...] I personally do not know Jason Calcanis and I have heard from various podcast, read from various blogs and forums talking about what he said that SEO is bullshit, and you should just come up with good content. And I have heard and read the post of WebGuerrilla, Oilman and Graywolf on David Parternack, pretty much delivering the same message and comparing SEO over PPC. And I’ve heard other people talking about SEO is not really rocket science. Well for me, after hearing it all, I just feel to lazy to even react. But I tell you, I am all for SEO. But then again, comparing this with PPC and other forms for marketing, every part has a piece of the pie. Sometimes some websites might have a bigger pie slice for SEO, sometimes a bigger slice for PPC. [...]
WilliamC
February 16th, 2007 at 7:52 amI see your page in #1 as of 9am this morning Todd. Enjoy
Simon Heseltine
February 16th, 2007 at 12:45 pmGrats on the #1 spot.
paisley
February 16th, 2007 at 2:46 pmlol..
Brian Mark
February 16th, 2007 at 6:52 pmThis is fun. Can we play again?
IncrediBILL
February 17th, 2007 at 12:54 amMy Hero – this morning I see you in the #1 spot on Google as well.
BTW Dave, your link dropping all over the place is really lame, you even did that crap on my blog, sad, really sad.
Speaking of business communications skills, you would probably best be served if you stopped using yours Dave, they appear to be about as good as your SEO skills, and that’s not saying much.
Good Luck on the #1 spot Oil, hold the fort!
Kyle
February 17th, 2007 at 12:02 pmBlogged,linked and tagged.
Congrats.
WilliamC
February 18th, 2007 at 5:51 pmI am still wondering why dave thought it was going to be a race still
Optimizing a Dave Pasternack page title » Small Business SEM
February 19th, 2007 at 11:14 pm[...] I’ve been catching up on some podcast listening, including the 2-week-old SEO Rockstars show when Greg and Todd were talking about the Dave Pasternack contest. Todd announced that he’d be putting a horse in the race, which can be found here: Dave Pasternack. [...]