Archive for August, 2008

SES San Jose: Social Media Analysis and Tracking

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Social Search can be used to drive traffic, conversions, and increase ROI by monitoring conversations happening online. This panel is a first for SES with Marshall Sponder, Senior Web Analyst for Monster.com as the Moderator.
Industry leaders Todd Parsons, Co-founder and CPO of Buzz Logic, Rob Key, CEO of Converseon, Edmund Won, Vice President of Strategy […]

Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Heather Lloyd-Martin DMA SEMC

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

SES San Jose week is nearly over one might say we’ve saved some of the best internet marketing conference tips for last with the ever enthusiastic and insightful Heather Lloyd-Martin.
Heather is Chair, DMA’s Search Engine Marketing Council and President of SuccessWorks. She also blogs about copywriting at SEO Copywriting.
Attend all the “search marketing site […]

SES San Jose: Black Hat vs White Hat Playing Dirty with SEO

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

People love controversy, and that was clearly in evidence at this SES session covering the most controversial of SEO debates, White Hat versus Black Hat. Moderator Matthew Baily of SiteLogic and his crew of experts from both sides spoke to a standing-room only crowd. Panelists included:

Greg Boser of 3 Dog Media
Todd Friesen, Director of SEO […]

SES San Jose Wrap Up Day Three

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Another fine day of blogging is under the collective belt of the TopRank team. Google Dance offered a very nice distraction last night and you can see by a quick search on Flickr the fun that was had. Thank you Google.
Here’s a wrap up of posts from the TopRank Blogging team for day three of […]

SES San Jose: Successful Tactics for Social Media Optimization

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Entering the realm of social media can be a bit like trying to enter an exclusive club. There are barriers to entry, codes of conduct, and unwelcome outsiders are quickly identified and ostracized. Yet, like an exclusive club, the benefits of membership can be great. Marketers looking to benefit from social media would do well […]

SES San Jose: News Search SEO

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

News search engines offer a great way to receive targeted traffic related to breaking topics or to help with a public relations launch. In this session, industry experts Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank Online Marketing, Lisa Buyer, President & CEO of The Buyer Group and Greg Jarboe, President and Co-Founder, SEO-PR look at how to […]

SES San Jose: SEO Rehab & Intervention

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

The SEO Rehab & Intervention was a great session oh how we are all addicted to something in our industry. Granted it was a bit of an un-structed session, but that’s what made it entertaining. The discussion flowed from chocolate cake to Twitter and SEO.
Here are a few good tips:

Spend your time on what […]

SES San Jose: Social Media Marketing

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Social media marketing is fast emerging as a must-have in search strategies. In this session, industry experts Vanina Delobelle, Global Product Director for Monster, Erik Qualman from Search Engine Watch and Global VP of EF Education, along with Brnet Csutoras, Online Marketing Consultant offered some tips to successfully integrate social media into your search marketing […]

SES San Jose: Ads in a Quality Score World

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

“Quality over quantity” applies to almost everything we encounter, from the foods we eat to the people we interact with. It certainly applies to pay-per-click ads, in which the quality of your campaigns, from keywords to ads to landing pages, takes precedence over the quantity of money you bid. Your keyword quality scores can be […]

SES San Jose: Search Behavior Update

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

The famous eye tracking heat maps are just the start of understanding search behavior. What about what happens before they get to your site? Or while they are on your site? Search behavior is something a site needs to understand to get more users to their site.

Here are a few of the […]