Posted by Jennifer Osborne on August 26th 2008 in Analytics, Google, SES San Jose 2008
[Editor's note: This post is our continued dissemination of content from last week's SearchEngineStrategies San Jose search marketing conference, where aimClear had 3 correspondents providing our readers notes and articles. The following is from our friend and blogger-associate, Jennifer Osborne:]
During Day 2 of SES San Jose, Avinash Kaushik, Google Analytics Evangelist, was in fine form discussing Google Analytics changes.
For any of you who have heard Avinash speak you’ll know that he’s an incredibly humorous speaker. But underneath that humor lies wisdom. Even when you think he’s making a joke, if you dissect what he’s saying; underneath, it’s brilliant.
Here are Avinash’s best quotes from his speech and the underlying implication of what he said: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Charlene Jaszewski on August 23rd 2008 in Local Search, Mobile Search, SES San Jose 2008
[Editor's note: This post is our continued dissemination of content from this week's SearchEngineStrategies San Jose search marketing conference, where aimClear had 3 correspondents providing our readers notes and articles. The following is from our friend and blogger-associate, Charlene Jaszewski:]
Mobile and Local are tied at the hip, but up until recently the tools weren’t up to the task. But with advent of the iPhone however, all that is changing.
Besides making iPhone a great productivity tool (not to mention GORGEOUS eye candy), Apple has opened up third party application development.
This SES San Jose session demo-ed a few of the existing and up-and-coming applications taking advantage not only of local search, but also of the iPhone’s unique capabilities. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Charlene Jaszewski on August 22nd 2008 in Conversion, SES San Jose 2008

[Editor's note: This post is our continued dissemination of content from this week's SearchEngineStrategies San Jose search marketing conference, where aimClear had 3 correspondents providing our readers notes and articles. The following is from our friend and blogger-associate, Charlene Jaszewski:]
Search is all about getting users to your site, but what happens when they get there? Landing Page Optimization is all about making sure users know exactly what to do when they land on your site. These notes are from the SES San Jose “Landing Page Utopia: Expert Round Table panel.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Todd Mintz on August 22nd 2008 in SES San Jose 2008

[Editor's note: This post is our continued dissemination of content from this week's SearchEngineStrategies San Jose search marketing conference, where aimClear had 3 correspondents providing our readers notes and articles. The following is from our friend and blogger-associate, Todd Mintz:]
It’s not always just about sales…it’s about leads first! This SES San Jose panel offered insights into generating copious amounts of high-quality leads for your business, to generate revenue at the bottom of the sales funnel. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Jennifer Osborne on August 21st 2008 in Paid Marketing, SES San Jose 2008

It’s Day 4 at SES San Jose and it looks like they saved the best for last. Moderated by Gregg Stewart SVP, Interactive, TMP Directional Marketing, this session looked at Contextual Advertising from two directions: from a publisher’s perspective on how to generate more revenue dollars and also effective tactics for managing contextual campaigns. David Szetela CEO, Clix Marketing shared world class content targeting tips from Advertisers perspective. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Jennifer Osborne on August 21st 2008 in Paid Marketing, SES San Jose 2008

Moderated by Dana Todd, CMO for Newsforce, Day 3 of SES San Jose found SEM experts discussing how Quality Score has impacted results and how you can impact quality score results. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Charlene Jaszewski on August 21st 2008 in Google, SES San Jose 2008, Social Media
This is part two of a post on the session, Facebook, Twitter and Microblogging at Search Engine Strategies San Jose. Catch Part I:Twitter over here. This post talks about Facebook and FriendFeed.
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Posted by Charlene Jaszewski on August 21st 2008 in SES San Jose 2008, Social Media

Twitter, Tweets, Twits, Twats? Facebook apps? You’ve heard about Twitter, Facebook and Microblogging in the blogosphere, find out whether it’s worth your time as a business tool, or just a way to bug your friends. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Jennifer Osborne on August 21st 2008 in Analytics, Google, SES San Jose 2008
The SES San Jose “sponsored” Google session featured Avinash Kaushik, Author, Analytics Evangelist, Google and Tom Leung, Business Product Manager, Google Website Optimizer. Both gentleman gave terrific presentations.
In particular, scattered amongst the screen shots of how to get the most out of your Google Analytics, lay a number of plug ins and reports that you probably didn’t know about: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Todd Mintz on August 21st 2008 in SES San Jose 2008

White hat, black hat, gray hat…SEOs come in ALL colors. As much as we hate to admit it, we still talk about “hats” in SEO. SES San Jose panelists update attendees on the latest black hat / white hat issues with plenty of time for audience involvement. Moderator Matt Bailey is President of SiteLogic, a search marketing consulting and training company.
There wasn’t any formal structure to this session. Instead, these experienced industry veterans participated in a collective conversation (that included the audience + Matt Cutts) about Black Hat / White Hat issues. Read the rest of this entry »
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