Posted by Marty Weintraub on October 29th 2009 in Interviews, SEO | 14 comments
Rand Fishkin is a singular personality and, to those in the SEO industry, needs little introduction. Having “started playing” with Microsoft FrontPage WYSIWYG web page software in 1993 as a high school student, he’s grown SEOmoz to take its place amongst the most recognized brands in search.
Rand worked his way to thought-leadership by classic pathways: hard work, experimentation, speaking engagements at early Danny Sullivan/Chris Sherman SearchEngineStrategies conferences, tackling ambitious data-driven research projects, ahead of the times tool-making, endless sharing, participation and blogging. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Merry Morud on October 28th 2009 in Speaking Engagments | Be the first to comment!
Roll over Beethoven! Legendary search marketing conclave PubCon looms large as Sinatra on a flashing Las Vegas billboard. Beginning November 10th at the ‘Vegas Convention Center, PubCon truly is one of the world’s most storied annual Internet marketing conferences.
Steeped in history, stand by to experience 4 killer days of content spread across 7 tracks, over 90 sessions and fantastic networking events. Learn from and mingle with over 200 expert speakers gathered to share real-world examples of bleeding edge SEO, PPC and affiliate-think-genius. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Marty Weintraub on October 23rd 2009 in SEM Poetry Slam | 3 comments
The wind whistles howling, this blustery Canal Park morning, 7:20 AM. The water churns brown, surface licking little whitecaps, tinted iron ore agitated by waves. There’s going to be snow south of us along the Shores of Lake Superior today, hazardous travel they say. It’s about 43 degrees Fahrenheit outside but I’m good.
Each year it takes about a week of around-freezing weather to acclimate a soul and I’m there. Really, I got up and went to the store pre-dawn this morning wearing shorts, sandals and my Marshall School blaze-orange down vest. I’m good because Duluth makes you hardy in deep & handy ways. The seats in the Jeep are heated. Bring it. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Marty Weintraub on October 18th 2009 in SEO, Social Media | 11 comments
Google Insights For Search
What does it take to rank in Facebook’s newly enhanced internal search engine, which now spans the entire user base? This post offers results from aimClear’s study of Facebook search and offers SEO tips & tricks for getting keyword queries ranked in FB’s organic SERPs.
We also examine opportunities for savvy marketers to best exploit Facebook’s expanded social graph search to immediate advantage and share what we learned about ranking factors. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Laura Weintraub on October 11th 2009 in Rants, Social Media | 3 comments
photo credit: Nick J Webb
Whether dealing with a Twitter avatar, teenager, office associate you see each day, ex-boyfriend or StumbleTrolls, resorting to ugly name-calling is counter productive. Because social media amplifies physical life and vice a versa, it’s doubly important to be civil.
A review of the daily news and subsequent social media buzz highlights how damaging rhetoric flares between physical and online channels. Read the rest of this entry »
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