SearchFest 2009 Interview: Susan Moskwa

Susan will be speaking about "Technical" at Searchfest 2009 which will be held March 10th in Portland, Oregon. Get your tickets now. 1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living . I grew up in Madison, WI; I have a BA in Linguistics from Cornell University. After graduating I worked in Cornell's Information Science department (http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/) for a year. In 2006 my husband (http://www.seomoz.org/team/nick) got a job at Microsoft and we moved to Read more [...]

SearchFest 2009 Interview: Eric Peterson

Eric will be speaking about "Analytics" at Searchfest 2009 which will be held March 10th in Portland, Oregon. Get your tickets now. 1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living. I am an author and consultant at Web Analytics Demystified in Portland, Oregon. I work with companies to improve their overall strategic use of web and digital analytics applications like Omniture, WebTrends, and even Google Analytics. You can learn more about Web Analytics Demystified Read more [...]

Searchfest 2009 Keynote Interview: Danny Sullivan

Danny will be giving the keynote address at Searchfest 2009 which will be held March 10th in Portland, Oregon. Get your tickets now. 1) Recently, you’ve seemed to be more personal (http://daggle.com/081224-112016.html), political (http://daggle.com/081114-203010.html) & emotional (http://searchengineland.com/crappy-mp3-sites-comment-spamming-enough-already-15629) in your writing. Is there some philosophical underpinning behind your evolution as a journalist and as a blogger? Daggle’s Read more [...]

Searchfest 2009 Interview: Kerry McClenahan

Kerry will be speaking about "Business to Business Search Marketing" at Searchfest 2009 which will be held March 10th in Portland, Oregon. Get your tickets now. 1)      Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living. I’ve worked the past twenty-plus years in business-to-business (BtoB) technology marketing, all of it spent on the agency side. Today, I’m CEO of McClenahan Bruer Communications, aka McBru, a full-service agency exclusively Read more [...]

Searchfest 2009 Interview: Doug Hay

Doug will be speaking about "SEM PR" at Searchfest 2009 which will be held March 10th in Portland, Oregon. Get your tickets now. 1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living. I am the co-founder and CEO of Expansion Plus a Pasadena based Internet Marketing & PR firm. www.expansionplus.com dough@expansionplus.com http://twitter.com/doughay E+ was an early adopter of new media technologies while leveraging the principals’ multi decades of experience in marketing, Read more [...]

SearchFest Speakers-They’re Kind of a Big Deal

Presenters for SearchFest 09 have all presented at the biggest shows in the industry, SES and SMX, which come with price tags upwards of $2000. So the SearchFest price tag (tomorrow is the last day to get advanced pricing, $179 for members, $229 for Non-Members) is truly the best deal you're going to find. Learn about our SearchFest 09 Presenters: Danny Sullivan Editor-In-Chief of Search Engine Land Danny is considered by many to be the Godfather of search. Widely regarded as a leading Read more [...]

Searchfest 2009 Interview: Dan Hobin

Dan will be speaking about "PPC" at Searchfest 2009 which will be held March 10th in Portland, Oregon. Get your tickets now. 1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living . I am the CEO of G5 Search Marketing - we have developed a platform that we use to help local and regional businesses reach new customers online. We specialize in a few verticals like the self storage industry and all of our clients have multiple locations. Our suite of services includes Read more [...]

Searchfest 2009 Interview: Marty Weintraub

Marty will be speaking about "Online Reputation Management" at Searchfest 2009 which will be held March 10th in Portland, Oregon. Get your tickets now. 1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living. After a long and delightful career as a musician and 9 years as an in-house & solo Internet Marketing pro, I'm thrilled to be president of aimClear, an Internet focused Advertising Agency with offices in Duluth and Minneapolis, Minnesota. We're a full service Read more [...]

Searchfest 2009 Interview: Dustin Woodard

Dustin will be speaking about "SEM PR" at Searchfest 2009 which will be held March 10th in Portland, Oregon. Get your tickets now. 1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living. I’m a veteran in-house SEO professional with a successful track record of dominating search rankings for sites in the food, financial and publishing industries. At Wetpaint, a Seattle-startup at the forefront of social publishing, I oversee SEO & SMO for over a million user-generated Read more [...]

Searchfest 2009 Interview: Ian Lurie

Ian will be speaking about "Analytics" at Searchfest 2009 which will be held March 10th in Portland, Oregon. Get your tickets now. 1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living. I run an internet marketing agency, Portent Interactive (www.portentinteractive.com ). I've spend the last 15 years writing copy, helping folks move up in the search engines and generally making a pest of myself. I also write an internet marketing blog, Conversation Marketing, at http://www.conversationmarketing.com. 2) I Read more [...]