I'm back in Seattle after a short trip to NYC for SMX Social Media. I live-blogged a couple of sessions on Tuesday and tried to live blog the "Evangelist - The Marketer's Role...
This week had lots of exciting news from inside the search space, but as you're probably well familiar by now, I generally like to discuss topics that are outside the mainstream dialogue of search marketers (between Danny, Andy & this rowdy crowd, that's...
After a quick break, we're back at SMX Social Media with "A Marketer's Guide to Social Bookmarking & Tagging." Guillaume Bouchard from NVI is up first. He starts off with his token in-joke for French speakers. People laugh (in French: "hoh...
Having just wrapped up my presentation for Linkbait: Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites (I linked to Vanessa Fox's session coverage on Search Engine Land in case you want a recap), I thought I'd turn the tables and live blog Extra! Extra! The Social News sites. (Side note: My allergies have been a pain in the ass e...
As Rand mentioned in his Rewriting the Beginner's Guide post, he and I will be speaking at SMX Social Media next Monday and Tuesday. Once again, I will be speaking on the Linkbait panel with my buddies Brent Csutoras and ...
I'm combining two short blogs into one tonight - hey, it's easier for you to read and me to write, so why not, right? First off, I wanted to do a roundup of some of the great material that's popped up over the past few days: Yahoo! did an impressive upgrade to their search results and the search functionality...
Earlier this week I was in Las Vegas to attend and speak at the Shop.org Summit. While I was there I attended the "Web 2.0: Advanced Level" session. After some severe sound issues (think microphones cutting out and constant screechingly loud feedback) and my astonishment at how much wifi costs in the convention ce...
Very, very quick blog post filled with self-promotional material (I know, I never do these anymore, what's up with that? It's almost like I'm a dirty spammer, filling your feedreader with ads). And no complaining, because... well, because I'm grumpy - Mystery Guest had a rough night. October 1st better find all of you hunkered down at desks, taking notes, learning more about search...
Next week I'll be speaking at the Shop.org Summit in Las Vegas. The summit is a conference for online and multichannel retailers, so it's a slightly different focus than the SES and SMX shows I've attended. I'm looking forward to attending some sessions to get a better grasp of some of the issues retail sites experience and learn how to improve conversions (something I've been tasked with grappling for SEOmoz).
Now that I've got about a week's worth of antibiotics pumping through my system (only one more week to go!), I was able to focus my valuable SEO skills on creating a litany of stupid speech bubbles and images of Dave Naylor saying "fookin." I think I may be underpaid. Anyway, thanks for being patient while my body became a culture of snot and goo. Here's the ...
So much to fit into one blog post (and technically, I'm still on vacation). Technically, this is three separate subjects, so I'll segment :) Industry Numbers For the outside investment we're seeking, I've had to dig around a bit for industry data to help predict the total number of people in the world conducting search marketing professionally - here's what I've ...
I had the opportunity to speak about link bait at this year's SES San Jose. It was my fourth speaking engagement, and I potentially have at least two more speaking gigs lined up before the end of the year (the Shop.org Summit in Las Vegas September 17-19 and hopefully ...
Have I been captured by enemy blackhats? Tortured and thrown to the dogs? Or just relentlessly interviewed over email (and in person)? Well, since the first two sound painful, let's go with door number three. First off is an interview on social media marketing, with a few nifty...
Ah, San Jose. Your city may be boring and somewhat bland, but your conference is always a fun time. Below are the best things I overheard at SES San Jose 2007: "I hate movies where water kills the bad guy." -- Eric Dyck from Neverblue Media "I feel like such a...cool person!" -- ...