OK, getting ready for Keyword Research Ninja Tactics on Day 2 of SMX Advanced London. Moderator: Mikkel deMib Svendsen, Creative Director, deMib.com Q&A Moderator: Merry Morud, Search Marketing Account Manager, aimClear Speakers: Richard Baxter, Director, SEOgadget Christine Churchill, President, KeyRelevance Lasse Clarke Storgaard, Head of Search, MediaCom Denmark Kevin Gibbons, Director of Strategy, SEOptimise @demib @richardbaxter @keyrelevance […]
OK, SMX Advanced London Day 2 is underway! We start with Search Analytics & Competitive Intelligence Moderator: Chris Sherman, Executive Editor, Search Engine Land Q&A Moderator: Cameron Cowan, Product Manager, Omniture, An Adobe company Speakers: Karl Blanks, Chairman and Resident Rocket Scientist, Conversion Rate Experts — Out sick David Sottimano, SEO Consultant, Distilled John Straw, Founder, […]
OK, last session of the day, SMX London Day 1. What’s really important for technical SEO with Moderator: Rob Kerry, Head of Search, Ayima Speakers: Richard Baxter, Director, SEOgadget Martijn Beijk, SEO & Web Analytics Consultant, Onetomarket Jonathan Hochman, Consultant, JE Hochman & Associates LLC John Mueller, Sr. Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google Twitter names: @robkerry […]
OK, here for the link building session, always one of the key sessions of the conference. Moderator: Christine Churchill, President, KeyRelevance Q&A Moderator: Martin Macdonald, Head of SEO, OMD UK Speakers: Patrick Altoft, Director of Search, Branded3 Rob Millard, SEO Consultant, Distilled Kelvin Newman, Creative Director, Site Visibility Pete Wailes, Lead Digital Strategist, Strategy Internet […]
Packed room for SEO in 2011 here at SMX London. Delayed start due to technical difficulties. What’s not working? The microphone. Fixed. We’re on. Mikkel deMib Svendsen leads it off. Best SEO Strategy ever: optimize for users, not engines. In the 90s algos were simple, indexes were small, only on-site factors, and easy to reverse […]
SMX Toronto was excellent. Here’s the best of the best: Best Lines & Lessons Bruce Clay: In the future we’re going to have to analyze the analytics and not just report it (hat tip: @saffyre9) Dawn Wentzell: If you’re looking to convince your CEO not to use Flash, just tell him it won’t work on […]
South by Southwest is a remarkable conference. The Interactive segment alone was nearly 5 crazy days with about 40 simultaneous sessions in each time slot. It included lectures by industry luminaries, celebrities, entrepreneurs and “ordinary” people with interesting ideas and perspectives to share. Here’s the best from the 2011 conference. Best Lines: Guy Kawasaki: The Apple […]
Wow, what a conference. Great sessions, great smackdowns, and Matt Cutts is not the most mentioned person (this time that honor goes to Charlie Sheen). Here’s the Best of the Best. Best Lines: Todd Nemet [Showing log files] Look at this, Google makes their crawlers work on Christmas. So much for Don’t be evil. Oh, don’t […]
[Dear reader: A funny thing happened with this post. I wrote it to show how it’s OK for eHow’s page to rank on “how to pour a glass of water” since it will only be found by people searching for that information. But then I was surprised to get a lot of search traffic to […]
5 minutes after the scheduled start time I looked out into the crowd and saw about 20 people and thought “Oh great.” But when I looked up twenty minutes later it was Standing Room Only. I’m told 450 people attended. Nice. Lunch was great, wireless was up and down, crowd was good, speakers were very […]