Archive for November, 2006

Marketing with Widgets - Interview with Lawrence Coburn

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Spotlight on Search Interview with Lawrence Coburn

I first met Lawrence Coburn when we presented together on a Public Relations panel during a WebmasterWorld Pubcon conference in Boston. Lawrence told a great story about being at the right place at the right time and taking proper advantage to build publicity for his web site, RateItAll.com.
At […]

Post Turkey Day SEO News

Friday, November 24th, 2006

I hadn’t noticed this earlier, but there’s been a full exodus of Search Engine Watch correspondents over to Search Engine Land. It will be interesting to see what Incisive does to fill that gap.
I had no idea Michael Gray was a fan of cooking (I am too!) and he does a nice rundown of the […]

Giving Thanks

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving!
Today makes me think of the many, many people who I am very greatful to for sharing insight that has been instrumental to our business sucess, that have made important introductions and referrals or provided opportunities for us to take our biz to the next level. Many of these people probably have no idea […]

Pre Thanksgiving Search Links

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Technorati now offers a link count widget that provides visitors to your blog with a real-time count of how many links you have to a particular post. I read about this on another blog and I cannot remember which one - sorry for not hat tip.
Speaking of widgets, I’ve got a great interview with […]

SEMPO Survey and Webinar

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

SEMPO is running their State of the Search Marketing Industry survey again and I would encourage anyone working in the field to take a few minutes and fill it out. The survey provides excellent insight into the direction of search marketing budgets, tactics and trends.  I know I’m curious to see how it compares to […]

New Matt Cutts Videos

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Matt Cutts of Google was nice enough to take a minute to do a quick interview on his way out from the Pubcon conference in Las Vegas. This was something we had coordinated via email before the conference, but I was lucky to catch him at the last minute.
Matt gives his take on Pubcon parties […]

SEO Improves Customer Service

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

A group blog I write for on occassion is hosting a carnival of customer service and invited the group to contribute. This is a business blog directed towards small and medium sized businesses on issues ranging from legal considerations to SEO. The invite made me think about how SEO can affect a customer’s experience with […]

Search Marketing Blogs 112006

Monday, November 20th, 2006

With the conference last week, I missed posting my weekly list of SEO, social media and online PR blog links, so let’s start off the week with a nice list. As a reminder, these are blogs that I’ve either recently discovered or recently “re-discovered”.
WebProNews Blog - Fairly new and it’s about time! Mike, Chris and […]

Pubcon Roundup: Videos, Photos and Blog Posts

Monday, November 20th, 2006

I have to say, the Pubcon conference last week was one of the better search marketing conferences I’ve been to. The overriding impression from just about everyone I talked to was that the content was great and the networking even better.
Below is a roundup of Online Marketing Blog’s blog posts, photos and videos from the […]

Pubcon SEO Videos

Friday, November 17th, 2006

I now have 5 of the 6 SEO interview videos I’ve shot here at the Las Vegas Pubcon.
Greg Hartnett - Best of the Web
Kevin Lee - Did-It.com
John Marshall - ClickTracks
Greg Jarboe - SEO-PR
I also have one with Patrick Gavin of Text Link Ads but the file is too big for YouTube so I’ll have to […]