Posts by Hamlet Batista

March 14, 2019

Over the past couple of months, I’ve begun to write articles about the practical application of Python and data science in an SEO context. Why? Because I realized that as a community, we spend a lot of our time trying to guess where pages will rank, our work takes forever to yield results, and sadly...

February 16, 2019

Last year, I made a major business decision for the company that cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars, countless hours of R&D, and innumerable lines of code. Instead of remaining on the Google Cloud platform where we’d spent years building and maintaining a robust reverse proxy network for our services, I decided to move...

January 11, 2019

At RankSense, businesses come to us with SEO needs because they realize that search engine optimization is one of the best ways to increase visibility for their company and sales of their products. For many of our clients, that is the case and we are happy to help them grow. However, we have other clients...

October 06, 2017

Guarantees in SEO are practically non-existent, but we're able to guarantee 15% revenue lift to the clients we choose to work with. Find out how.

January 31, 2017

I recently read Aleyda’s excellent post about using Chrome Developer Tools for SEO, and as I’m also a big fan of DevTools, I am going to share my own use cases. Misplaced SEO tags If you are reviewing correct SEO tag implementations by only using View Source, or running an SEO spider, you might be...

January 30, 2012

I recently worked on an enterprise-level client’s non-SEO related project where the goal was to confirm or deny that their new product: 1)  Was not doing anything that could be considered black hat. 2)  Was providing any SEO benefit for their clients. The problems you face with projects like this is that Google doesn’t provide...

August 01, 2010

Last December, while speaking at an affiliate convention in LA, I had the opportunity to share a panel with Dush Ramachandran, the vice president of sales, marketing, and business development for ClickBank. We talked about some of the challenges facing his organization. One of those challenges is the fact that after years of success, many...

June 23, 2010

It seems like every time I check up on blogs someone is decrying the bygone days of search engine optimization as if it has been dead for years. This strikes me as more than strange. Granted, many of the old black hat techniques are certainly no longer viable. Google continues to create better and better...

October 21, 2008

On Friday, we organized the very first RankSense SEO webinar entitled Searching for Results. If you missed the webinar you can access a recording of the live event here… During this inaugural webinar, Hamlet covered several key SEO topics including: Solutions to Common SEO Problems Creating successful content How to attract successful traffic How to...