Come Together: The Web+Everything. September 4+5, 2008 8:00am – 5:00pm Gerding Theater in the Pearl District Portland, Oregon http://www.inverge.com info@inverge.com 503-819-6219 What’s Next for the Web? The Web+Everything! Inverge: the interactive convergence conference is a 2+ day interdisciplinary business+culture experience in Portland, Oregon that features over a dozen digital thought-leader presenters and explores emerging integration dynamics such as the convergence Read more [...]

“Publish Post” As I clicked that button, I knew my work was done for the evening. My feedreader was empty as was my inbox. My eyes were bloodshot; my back was sore; and my energy level had crashed harder that some of the tech stocks that I used to own. I badly needed a full night of sleep. I pushed myself away from my desk, walked over to my bed and got under the covers. I closed my eyes and drifted off to dream… Read More Read more [...]

Announcing a new job opening: Search Engine Marketing Specialist. See our careers page for more information. Amplify-Interactive, a Portland Oregon search engine marketing agency, is hiring a Search Engine Marketing Specialist. The specialist will have the unique opportunity to help drive this next phase of growth for Amplify Interactive, and learn the fundamentals of search engine & web site marketing – an increasingly important aspect of the marketing mix. Search Marketing Specialist: Read more [...]

They are seeking a Web Content & SEO Specialist and a Product Marketing Manager. Give them a shout if you’re looking for an SEO position.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2008 11:00 AM (Americas) Pacific Time (US & Canada) It is still unclear which next generation business models will dominate in the local advertising revolution. The giant online portals are "localizing" significant parts of their experiences, search engines are trying to hyper-localize their results, wireless phone platforms are expanding local functionality, and startups are introducing new business concepts. Today, there is a shift towards multi-channel convergent, Read more [...]

Do you have a business website that contains your home address on it? You might want to check out your address on Google Maps and see if your house is included in Google's "Street View". If yes, you might want to take a critical look at your house and your neighborhood and consider how a prospective client might view what they are seeing. This weekend, I was at a local professional services website that I'd been to before and noticed a new address which I could tell was a home. I plugged Read more [...]

by Lisa Williams We have a client who came to us in March to help procure a Reconsideration Request from Google. De-indexing and reconsideration at Google is not a simple feat. Google reconsideration and religion have a lot in common. Many faiths (as with many search engines) have the same premise, be good and you will be rewarded. It’s not always clear what the rules are or where you stand. Just as in religion there is no real criteria to assess (in real time and with a tracking system) Read more [...]

Some of the new social-media service’s users (including Kent Lewis) talk about its pluses and minuses.

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