Archive for March, 2008

SES NY Keynote: SEO Lessons and the Wall Street Journal

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

After gathering around the caffeine this morning for Day 3 of SES New York, attendees gathered to listen to a keynote from Gordon McLeod, President, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.
Gordon led the audience through the evolution of SEO within the Wall Street Journal organization, noting that they didn’t necessarily do things right the first […]

Day Two SES NY 2008 Summary and Party Photos

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Day two rolled right along here at SES New York with great sessions well documented by an array of blog coverage. This includes our own Jolina Pettice who filed an SES inspired post on “Tips for Overcoming Client-Created Roadblocks” as well as session coverage of “Converting Visitors into Buyers” and the Orion panel on Universal […]

SES New York: Universal Search Panel

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Today’s Orion panel at SES NY really took a different spin on the topic of universal search. I went in expecting to hear the same info  about what it is, how info is gathered and how to optimize for universal search. Which, if you are interested, can be read about in a previous SES […]

SES New York: Converting Visitors into Buyers

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

The conversions track at SES New York continues to be packed with those wanting to increase the performance of their search marketing campaigns.
The “Converting Visitors into Buyers” panel was moderated by Aaron Shear from Boost Search Marketing and the speakers included: Mike Moran from IBM, Nigel Ravenhill from McAfee, Michael Sack from Idearc Media Corp. […]

SES NY Video: Sara Holoubek on SEMPO

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

On day two of the Search Engine Strategies conference the expo hall has opened and I found my way past two floors of exhibitors to find the SEMPO booth staffed by the famous “free agent” and SEMPO board member, Sara Holoubek. In this video interview, Sara talks about the local SEMPO groups that are forming […]

Tips for Overcoming Client-Created Roadblocks

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

While sitting in sessions at any Search Marketing Conference, you will hear agency-side search marketers asking the panel for advice on how to keep clients from standing in their own way.
Questions like:
What if my client ignores our optimization recommendations?
What if a client doesn’t see any value in social media?
Some search marketers might […]

Day One SES NY 2008 Summary and Photos

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Yesterday proved to be an interesting kickoff to this year’s Search Engine Strategies conference here in New York. The Organic Listings panel was entertaining and informative as always and the Build Investment Interest in your SEO/SEM firm was an early indulgence for myself that offered great tips for those looking at the future liquidity […]

SES NY: Orion Panel on Vertical Search

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Closing out day 1 at SES New York was a panel discussion on vertical search moderated by Incisive Media’s Kevin Ryan and Rebecca Lieb and featuring panelists Bill Tancer GM Global Research at Hitwise, Jason R. Finger CEO Seamless Web, Paul Forster CEO Indeed, Steven Krein CEO Organized Wisdom.com and Joshua Stylman Managing Partner Reprise […]

SES NY Session: 3 Tips to Successful Analytics

Monday, March 17th, 2008

A full house was in attendance for this SES NY session in which panelists discussed how to squeeze the most out of analytics and turn data into action.
Specifically, Avinash Kaushik, Author, Blogger, Analytics Evangelist from Google shared the following.

3 Tips to Getting More out of Analytics
1. Measure bounce rate
As […]

SES New York Video: Mike McDonald WebProNews

Monday, March 17th, 2008

At SES San Jose in 2006, I took a 21 second video of Mike McDonald from WebProNews while we were standing in line for the bus to the Google Dance. That short video was followed by many other videos interviews with interesting people in the search marketing business which you can find on TopRank’s YouTube […]