Aaron Landry

Voted R.T. Rybak for mayor, Kevin McDonald for City Council, Carol Becker and Jill Schwimmer for the Board of Estimate & Taxation, Mary Merrill Anderson, Tom Nordyke, Scott Vreeland and Annie Young for Park and Recreation Board, and finally Alan Hooker, Rod Krueger, Sheldon Mains, Laurie Savran, Gary Thaden and Laura Waterman Wittstock for Library Board.

According to the machine that ate my ballot, I was #100 this morning.

Also met a woman that had the same last name as me. She lives a few blocks away. We figured out that we are probably related, but didn’t get far enough to figure out exactly how.

This dork from e-Results Inc, aka eResultsInc.com, called me today to promise me that he could put Go East as the first Google result for the word “design.” Yeah right! I asked how eResultsInc thought they could pull that off and he directed me to eresults.inc.com/special (now taken down) to show me some canned results. If you look closely at the “Software Site” example, eResultsInc shows realistic results on only one single obscure keyword combination on Google. Wow, nice work there. When I got to ask more questions I got put into his boss who told me about their numerous computers that are “only for the search engines” that “change the keywords every 24 hours” to optimize my site. LOL. I asked him what happens when Google figures out how eResultsInc is manipulating them and figures out what servers e-Results, Inc. uses. I asked them what happens when Google decides to not consider eResultsInc in their rankings and he got really defensive. They do everything to the “specs of the search engines” he said. Morons.

What I should have asked is “Why isn’t eResultsInc.com in the top 20 links when you search Google for ’search engine optimization’?” That would have owned them. Secondly, why is it that their own website has a Google page ranking of 0/10 (in other words, blacklisted)? LOL.

As a bonus, check out the fake company names they have on their testimonials page like “Credit Mends Inc.” and “Web Fund Raising.”

If they bug me again I am going straight to the president, Armando Garcia (armando@eresultsinc.com). I will tell him something about search engine optimization.

Update 2 Feb 06: Wow. These guys have balls. They called me again, and told me to visit www.eresultsinc.com/now/ (since removed) to see some of their canned reports. They asked me to go to Google and check out the placement of their clients sites. So I said, “okay, you go to Google. Type in ‘eresultsinc’ and look at the 9th and 10th results. Yeah. That’s right. That’s me telling you how much your company sucks.� He said, “okay, you have a nice day. Bye.�

Owned.

Out with Bill and Chuck this morning in the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities. Found 13 so far. We are the original Geostuds.

In Stillwater with Tim and Theresa going through some pieces they may want in their wedding. Shared a lot of pieces including stuff by Edward MacDowell and Bach to Gonzales and the White Stripes. They have a lot to figure out yet. An unnamed cat continued to distract everyone. Meow.

Got roommates Matt and Allen to help rake the yard. 20 bags. They thought it was funny to trap my car in. We are all sore because we are wimps.