Archive for December, 2007

SIS Opening Remarks Gord Hotchkiss

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Opening remarks: Gord Hotchkiss, CEO & President, Enquiro —Emcee of the Search Insider Summit
Where is search at? First time seeing a major change to what users see, beginning of personalization and search term suggestions or query refinement.
Gord talked to usability people at the major search engines via a webinar. enquiroresearch.com
The “holy grail” of search […]

Search Insider Summit Day 1

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Despite the snowy, blowy mountains outside it’s going to be hot inside at the Search Insider Summit conference with the following sessions on my plate for attending and some for blogging:
8:00am-8:45am
VIP Breakfast: Compete, Inc. - “Carving Up the Market in Park City - Your guide to segmenting the marketplace for better ad targeting”
8:45 am:
Opening remarks: […]

Search Insider Summit Day .05 Photos

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

You know those stories you hear once in a while about people who “blog in the nude”? Well, that will never be me but I am in a plush robe courtesy of Stein Eriksen Lodge, the place where Mediapost’s Search Insider Summit is being held the rest of this week and on Saturday. I […]

Link It Up - Fun Links from the Inbox

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

We get lots of links recommendations daily from friends, industry peers, PR interns who have absolutely no idea what they’re doing and way too many mindless bots. In a moment of weakness as I wait for the opening reception for SIS to start, I thought I’d share a few worthy links from others and a […]

Reader Poll: Trends in Search Marketing for 2008

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

In order to tap into the “wisdom of our crowd” and much appreciated readers, we run polls to find out what client and agency side marketers are thinking. Popular polls have included the rating of favorite resources like whether multiple search conferences can exist and succeed to the best keyword research tools.
It’s the end of […]

Marketing Sherpa Email Summit

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

This announcement might be a bit early, but I think the last Marketing Sherpa Email Summit sold out pretty quickly. This is an event (in Miami February 24th-26th) that’s near and dear to TopRank’s marketing consulting services which are made up of: search, PR and email marketing. Out of those three “legs”, email […]

Search Insider Summit Utah

Monday, December 10th, 2007

A whirlwind conference schedule winds up this year with Mediapost’s Search Insider Summit being held in Park City Utah at the Stein Eriksen Lodge Dec 12-15, 2007.  As part of our media sponsorship duties, I caught up with conference chair, David Berkowitz from 360i and the host/MC, Gord Hotchkiss of Enquiro for a quick interview:
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Pubcon Images: The “pub conference”

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

The last day of WebmasterWorld’s Pubcon is literally a gathering in a pub. This is the genesis of how Pubcon was started, an informal gathering of members from WebmasterWorld. Through the efforts of Brett Tabke and the community, it has grown into one of the finest search marketing conferences with thousands of attendees, major corporate […]

BIGLIST Search Marketing Blogs Update 120807

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

This BIGLIST search marketing blogs update is going up on a Saturday as we had more than enough posts go up yesterday. There are quite a few additions.  Enjoy some weekend SEO reading:

Online Marketing Mavens -
Digital Biographer -
Shoestring Branding -
Hyperlink Guerrilla -
Social Blog Roll -
QuickstartSEO Blog -
Manish Pandey -
No More Landing Pages -
Nate Moller -
SEO […]

SES Chicago 2007 Wrap Up

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Jolina and Mike had a great time at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Chicago. Not only is it the windy city, but a festive, cold and snowy one too by the sounds of it.
Here is a recap of the SES Chicago posts in case you missed any:

Meet the Web Analytics […]