Archive for June, 2007

Ramblings on Beginning SEO Podcast

Friday, June 15th, 2007

David Brown and Brian Mark invited me to do an interview with them for the Beginning SEO Podcast recently. The interview was sliced and diced a bit according to the questions and have been posted over the course of this week. Here are the posts so far:

Industry Conferences
Does Page Rank Matter and Why Build Widgets?
Who […]

Search Marketing Blogs Update 061507

Friday, June 15th, 2007

There are only two blogs to add to this week’s update of the BIGLIST of search engine marketing blogs.

Search Marketing Expo Blog - Danny Sullivan’s new conference series has a blog with a nice group photo and roundup of conference coverage from the first SMX event in Seattle.
Cam Balzer’s Web-Cite - Cam Balzer from DoubleClick […]

SEO 2.0 - Digital Asset Optimization

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

At the past two conferences I’ve spoken at, Search Insider Summit and Media Relations Summit, one of the popular topics that has been floating around the after session meet-ups and dinner conversations concerns the changing nature of search optimization. Some speculate SEO is on the way out. Others say social media is the new SEO.
Whatever […]

Technorati Graphs and Charts

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Just a quick post this am about one of the the common questions that came up during Media Relations Summit. It was a question about how to now find the Technorati graphs that show incoming links. I guess a lot of people don’t trust or feel comfortable with Technorati’s “Authority Score” which is a bit […]

Media Relations Summit D.C. Day One

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Monday was a bit of a late start for me to the conference but I went all caught up with emails, which is a good thing. I heard Juan Williams’ keynote was excellent and the good news is Sally Falkow blogged it.
I caught the tail end of Katie Paine’s blogs and social media measurement session […]

What is Your Measure of Success

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Have you been in the search marketing business for more than a few years? I am curious what your measures of success as a business are?
For some, it’ notoriety. It’s the pomp and circumstance of celebrity within their industry that gives them something to hang their hat on.
For others, it’s respect from their peers and […]

Leveraging Social Media and SEO for Public Relations

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Coming up very quickly next week is the Media Relations Summit in Washington D.C. and I’ll be bringing one of our account managers, Mike Yanke, who works with many of our public relations clients to learn from some of the best and brightest in the PR and media relations industry.
I’ll be joining fellow SEO/social media/PR […]

Search Marketing Blogs Update 060807

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Another fine harvest of search engine marketing blogs this week with some chicks, some Danish and ClearSaleing.

SEO Chicks - Julie Joyce, Lisa Ditlefsen and Anita Chaperon are women, or as they prefer to be called, “chicks” who know SEO and PPC. They decided after a few beers during a London conference that it was time […]

Reader Poll: What’s Bugging You About Search Marketing?

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

A great thing about this business is that it’s pretty difficult to get boring. The industry is in a state of constant change and the roles of marketers and what they need to do to serve clients also changes. There’s a lot to think about so Online Marketing Blog is curious, what’s on your mind:

What […]

Kevin Ryan to Direct Content at Search Engine Strategies and SEW

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Incisive Media announced this morning that Kevin Ryan, formerly CEO of Kinetic Results and one of my favorite columnists at iMedia Connection, will be joining Incisive Media as VP, Global Content Director, Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies. Kevin also made a post on the Search Engine Watch blog.
In essence, Kevin is filling the […]