Today’s third session and first of the afternoon was focused on the social news sites. The panel was of course moderated by Danny Sullivan, and it included Neil Patel of Advantage Consulting Services, Chris Winfield from 10e20 and Tamar Weinberg of Rusty Brick and techipedia. Also, please note that there are numerous live bloggers covering …
The second panel of the day was “Linkbait – Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites” and it was of course focused on creating and maintaining successful link bait. The panel here was made up Rebecca Kelley, Brent Csutoras and Cameron Olthuis. Rebecca Kelley from SEOmoz opened up with her examples of the worst college …
Today marks day one of the third SMX event, SMX: Social Media. Our first session began with Moderator Danny Sullivan addressing the crowd here at The Metropolitan Pavilion here in New York City on the explosive area of social media and marketing. As Danny immediately indicated, there is a clear connection between the growing social …
Welcome to the first part in our coverage of SMX Social Media. Serving as Search Engine Journal’s correspondent covering the SMX events here in New York, I will be posting recaps of the sessions as they happen here at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan. My morning kicked off with a warm welcome from Claire Schoen …
On every blog, discussion board and conference agenda there is a similar topic… Paid Links. Now, most of what I have written here on Search Engine Journal was done to provide support, to give advice or to serve as a guide. Today though I’m feeling feisty… and I just want to go off on a …
As the search industry grows, more niche service organizations appear. These companies usually boast a tagline touting the fact that they “specialize in the search engine optimization of (insert industry here)”… Some companies even go so far as to provide complete web site platforms and content management systems for their clients. Amazingly, these companies are …
If you’re a business with a web site, you need the assistance of search engine optimization. For the value it provides, the cost of quality search optimization is more than affordable. Finding a high quality SEO firm though is something that requires you to do some homework. Consider this article to be a cheat sheet …
Next Monday night I’ll be making the drive from Rhode Island to New York City to attend my first SMX event. This SMX event is called SMX Social Media, and it marks the third event in the SMX series that was launched earlier this year by Danny Sullivan and Third Door Media. I hear people …
For the past couple of years Linkbait has been all the rage in search marketing. The process of creating linkbait is quite simple: Create content that others will voluntarily link to, and sit back to reap the rewards. In the ultra-competitive world of search marketing, linkbait is becoming more obvious while we as readers become …
Earlier today I received an email from compete.com, a handy web site for comparing estimated traffic and web statistics. In it, compete.com announced their new search analytics program, available for public use: Compete Search Analytics is officially open to the public! Visit searchanalytics.compete.com to sign up or take a tour. Using just a credit card …
