Archive for May, 2007

Day One Summary Search Insider Summit

Monday, May 7th, 2007

The day started with a sponsored breakfast by Compete.com with a presentation by Jeremy Crane on Compete functionality. I came a bit late so I did not catch the entire presentation, but one interesting tidbit that I caught concerned the reporting of an Attention metric. What percent of users are visiting a particular site compared […]

June Search Marketing Conferences

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Wow, I just checked my calendar and June is one heck of a month for conferences. Regrettably, I’ve had to turn down two regional/private speaking gigs due to time conflicts and those really are the best for generating new business. However, the two events I will be speaking at are:
Bulldog Reporter’s Media Relations Summit, “Media […]

Technorati Adds Authority to SERPs

Friday, May 4th, 2007

After reading Neil’s post about Pronet Advertising, Search Engine Land and Online Marketing Blog making Technorati’s Popular 100 list, I thought I’d search T’rati a bit more and noticed an Authority score starting to appear next to the blogs in the search results. I know a widget was released that blogs could use to […]

Yahoo! Testing Search Results Interface

Friday, May 4th, 2007

As Karl Ribas found recently, Yahoo is testing some new search results page today. Funny thing is, I don’t use Yahoo standard search all that much but I couldn’t find what I was looking for on Google. (Note: the query in the screenshot is not what I was looking for)

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As Barry has […]

Search Marketing Blogs Update 050407

Friday, May 4th, 2007

The fun never stops with our ongoing search for interesting and informative blogs about search engine marketing. Open up your RSS reader/aggregator and invite this week’s entries into your blog reading party.

SEO Content Solutions - SEO savvy copywriter Christine OKelly writes about SEO, SMO and a few other acronyms we writers like to throw around.
SearchGrit […]

Gord Hotchkiss Search Insider Summit Interview

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Spotlight on Search Interview with Gord Hotchkiss of Enquiro, SEMPO

It’s been too long since we’ve done a Spotlight on Search interview and I’m happy to say we’ve been able to catch up with world traveler and search marketing ninja master Gord Hotchkiss. He’s probably never been characterized quite that way, but there’s a first for […]

Our New Web Hosting Company

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

If you follow the goings on at Online Marketing Blog, you’ll know we’ve had some issues with hosting the past few months. We had outgrown our host of 2 1/2 years and the subsequent host we moved to was not prepared to deliver the service we signed up for.
When looking for a new host, we […]

Google Hell, Digg Revolt & Perfect Storm

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

A few quick links of worthy happenings in the industry:
More MSM foolishness and incomplete reporting at Forbes, “Condemned to Google Hell“. Yeah, that’s right. On this one I am drinking the Google kool aid.
Over at Search Engine Watch, Greg Jarboe reports on a recent Hitwise report about emerging trends with online news in a SearchDay […]

Future of Search Marketing Blogging Contest

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Manoj Jasra of the Web Analytics World blog and Enquiro has let me know he’is running a blogging contest this week. It’s somewhat like Marketing Pilgrim’s Scholarship where participants submit articles on various topics and prizes are awarded to the winner who sends the most traffic. This is a brilliant idea actually and it’s […]

Reader’s Choice Search Marketing Resources

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

It’s been a while since we’ve done a Reader Poll Roundup, so today I’m listing a summary first and then the day’s poll in a separate post. With the polls we’ve been running just about every Wednesday on Online Marketing Blog, the voting turnouts and selections have been interesting but the commentary has been […]