Archive for May, 2010

Monster SEO: Interview with Matt Evans of Monster.com

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Spotlight on Search Interview with Matt Evans of Monster.com
There simply is no substitute for well rounded experience over a period of time to give a search marketer perspective and the skills to handle a variety of problems. Add to that “sink or swim” SEO training and you have a guy like Matt Evans, SEO Manager […]

Social Media Marketing Best Practices from Best Buy

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Social Media  advice is cheap and for the most part, you get what you pay for.  Best practices social media marketing based on experience, well, that’s another thing entirely.
The Social Media Best Practices session at IMS Minneapolis earlier this week gave attendees access to first hand insights from the likes of: Brad Smith from Best Buy, […]

Online Marketing Summit Minneapolis 2010

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

In conjunction with ClickZ, OMS has launched its 2010 23-City Tour from Seattle to New York and is coming to Minneapolis June 25th.  OMS had an event in the Twin Cities last year at about the same time and provided a great mix of education and networking opportunity for internet marketers of all types.
Best practices […]

Best Practices In SEO And Marketing: IMS MN 2010

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

At the recent Minneapolis Integrated Marketing Summit, TopRank Online Marketing CEO Lee Odden moderated an exciting panel of a diverse group of SEO professionals:

Alex Bennert – Chief Search Strategist at The Wall Street Journal
Brian Kleisner – Search Engine Marketing Manager for FindLaw
Bill Leake – CEO of Apogee Results

The focus of the panel was on search […]

Enterprise SEO Interview with Scott Skurnick of Edmunds.com

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Spotlight on Search Interview with Scott Skurnick of Edmunds.com
For every SEO guru speaking at a conference, there are 10 or 20 more SEO experts you might not have heard of, making things happen in amazing ways. Scott Skurnick has worked in the Search Marketing industry as long as anyone I know on the conference speaking […]

Free Pass: Integrated Marketing Summit Minneapolis

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Congratulations to Bonnie Harris on winning the free pass to IMS MSP!
Tomorrow the Integrated Marketing Summit in Minneapolis kicks off with a mix of educational sessions and learning opportunities that run the gamut of online marketing topics. The event includes a keynote from Chad Mitchell of Forrester Research as well as sessions on multi-channel marketing, […]

BIGLIST SEO Blog Reviews 052410

Monday, May 24th, 2010

It’s time for a new update to the BIGLIST review of SEO blogs. I started with a list of 15 new blogs in a queue for this update and four made the cut. Once a new blog hits our radar, we watch it for a few weeks before reviewing. Broken links, neglecting to post (far too many […]

7 Essential SEO Tips for Small Businesses

Friday, May 21st, 2010

When it comes to marketing in the current economy, small businesses need all the help they can get. They don’t have the ad budgets, the personnel or the time that the bigger competition has. But none of those factors really matter to search engines, and SEO is a great way to both level the playing […]

10 Easy Local SEO & Online Marketing Tips

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

There are currently 29.6 million small businesses in the U.S. (SCORE). 63% of consumers and small business owners use the Internet to find information about local companies and 82% use search engines (Webvisible & Nielsen).  That means there’s a lot of opportunity for local SEO.
Recently I attended GetListed.org’s Local University in Minneapolis which focused […]

SEO at Turner Broadcasting: Dan Perry Interview

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Spotlight on Search Interview with Dan Perry, SEO Director at Turner Broadcasting
Working with Enterprise SEO projects is compared to smaller company sites is as different as marketing to BtoC vs. BtoB customers. This interview with Dan Perry, the SEO Director for Turner Broadcasting covers his SEO dream job, in-house SEO career advice and skills, […]