Archive for December, 2006

Interview with Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Spotlight on Search: Interview with Andy Beal

I’ve known Andy Beal via blogging and search marketing conferences for a while now and had the privilege of speaking with him on a SEO Blogger and Reporter panel at the last WebmasterWorld Pubcon in Las Vegas.
While I had great respect for Andy’s accomplishments at building search marketing companies […]

Yahoo Panama - Interview with John Slade of Yahoo!

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Spotlight on Search: Interview with John Slade of Yahoo!

There has been quite a bit of buzz on the paid search marketing front with the launch of the new Yahoo! Search Advertising platform aka “Panama”. At the WebmasterWorld Pubcon conference in Las Vegas, Yahoo! announced the […]

Blog Tag and Five Things You Don’t Know About Me

Friday, December 15th, 2006

You may have noticed some tagging going on around the blogosphere today. Not the SMO kind of tagging but the “tag you’re it” kind of tagging. Marshall Sponder over at Web Metrics Guru got me yesterday, but I just noticed this afternoon.
Jeff Pulver started things off with this Holiday version of Blog Tag and […]

Friday SEO Blogs

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Here is this week’s batch of new blogs I’ve added to my SEO and social media blog list. Enjoy!
Joe’s SEM Blog - Joe Williams from the UK shares his wisdom on paid search and search marekting in general.
Search Marketing Standard Blog - So that’s where Garret French is hanging out! SMS also offers one […]

5 Myths about SEO

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

When you size up the search marketing industry, you really have to marvel at all the different information sources, many of them conflicting, and how search marketers are able to stay on top of what’s current and relevant compared to noise and malarkey.
In the course of talking to prospective clients, prospective business partners, attending conferences […]

Search and Social Media News Thursday

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Ron Belanger from Yahoo does a decent job explaining, “Engagement, Search and Social Media” in a video over at iMedia Connection. I like the context in which he presents social search - as a third channel to organic and PPC. Now if iMedia just offered some social bookmark links for the video!
WSJ posits a […]

9rules Network

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

I just noticed that Online Marketing Blog was included in the 9rules Network. So far there have been three, 24-hour submission rounds with hundreds of blogs trying to get in, but only a few make it, like Neil and Cameron’s Pronet Advertising Blog. In fact, although I’d met Neil at conferences before, I didn’t […]

Wednesday Search News Links

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Andy Beal lets the cat out of the bag with “Five Secret Strategies to Add $1 Million in Revenue to your Interactive Marketing Agency in 2007″. What the hell is he doing giving such advice away for free??
Mike McDonald of WebProNews interviews Rebecca Lieb from ClickZ and new Editor in Chief of Search […]

Getting Your Web Site Noticed

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

When the Yahoo Publisher Network blog editor Michael Mattis asked me to write an short marketing article for small businesses I knew exactly what to write about. As much as anyone, I am a proponent of new and interesting online marketing strategies like using social media for marketing, but I am also a firm believer […]

Session: Social Media Optimization

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

This is a bit of a late post but I want to get it out there before it gets swallowed up by all the other half-finished posts in my WordPress control panel.
I am happy to say that the session on social media optimization with Neil Patel, Andy Hagans, Rand Fishkin, Todd Malicoat and […]