Archive for November, 2006

SEM Scholarship Winner Announced

Friday, November 10th, 2006

This morning Andy Beal announced the winner of the SEM Scholarship contest he’s been running the past month:  Ben Wills for “The Five Pillars of Social Media Marketing“.
As one of the judges for the scholarship, you might imagine that an article about social media would attract my attention and it did.  Ben walks away a […]

PRWeb Podcast Rocks!

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Our public relations firm consistently uses the PRWeb Podcast service for our clients, but I’ve not taken advantage of the service very often for our own PR efforts with TopRank.
Yesterday for the second time ever, I personally used PRWeb’s Podcast service that’s available when you select a $200 or higher option for press release distribution. […]

WordZe Keyword Research Tool

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

A new keyword research tool called WordZe has launched this week and here is a quick review:
WordZe is a keyword research tool that shows detailed keyword searches, plus ways to track keywords well past their estimated daily search volume. The user data that powers WordZe comes from Internet portals and ISP logs from around the […]

SEO, New Media PR and Social Media Links

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Here are this week’s list of blogs/sites that I’ve added to my huge list of resources and blogs covering search engine optimization, new media public relations and marketing with social media.
Timboy - Tim Converse at Yahoo offers a great sense of humor and is sometimes referenced as Matt Cutts’ alter ego. One of my favorite […]

New Google, Yahoo, MSN Eye Tracking Report

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Manoj over at Web Analytics World blog has announced the release of a new eyetracking study by Enquiro that takes an in-depth look at interactions with Google, Yahoo! and MSN using eye tracking methodology. Many search marketers are familiar with Enquiro’s original eye tracking report on Google. (pdf)
The new Google/Yahoo/MSN whitepaper covers:

How We Scan […]

Pubcon Here We Come!

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Next week is the biggest, baddest WebmasterWorld Pubcon ever and I am really looking forward to it. This time around I will be speaking on two panels and will be bringing two of our account managers, Karen Sams and Jolina Pettice. This will be the first Pubcon, or search marketing conference for that matter, for […]

Blog Comment Policy

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

One of the most satisfying and useful metrics for a blog is whether posts generate comments or not as well as the quality of the comments. With increased traffic and visibility comes increased interaction but it also attracts comment spam or comments of no value.
This blog is old enough and has enough daily visitors that […]

Search Marketing Links 110606

Monday, November 6th, 2006

SEMPO is running their third annual search marketing survey.
Wordze.com New Keyword Research Tool
Yahoo Upgrades Shopping Search - SEJ
MySpace goes to Japan - SEJ
Small Business SEM Interview with Jon Glick of Become.com - Part 1, Part 2
Sponsored By: 2007 Buyer’s Guide - PPC Agencies Marketing Sherpa Reviews 63 Pay Per Click Firms

AllBusiness.com SEO Videos

Monday, November 6th, 2006

I just noticed today that AllBusiness.com had posted the basic SEO videos from the shoot we did a month ago or so. Most of them are pretty short little snippets and turned out ok, but I think we’ll shoot some in our office so we can do multiple takes. I had very little sleep the […]

57 Million Blogs

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Dave Sifry has released his quarterly State of the Blogosphere report which informs us that Technorati is now tracking 57 million blogs.  With this report comes some fun blogging stats:

100,000 blogs created daily (Q3)
55% of all blogs are active
Over 70% of pings are from known spam sources
English and Japanese remain the two most popular languages
Blogging […]