THE PITCH At SEMpdx, Membership has its' rewards. Join us for a special Members-ONLY appreciation event for great networking and a rare opportunity to "Ask the Experts" search marketing insider advice from the pros. Enter our sweepstakes for prizes, enjoy drinks and appetizers as a thank you for your continued membership with SEMpdx. THE SPEAKERS Matthew Brown Define Search Strategies Adam Audette Audette Media Kent Lewis Anvil Media and more... THE GIFTS Bring your business Read more [...]

I’m definitely going to be at SEMpdx’s SearchFest 2010 which will happen March 9th in Portland, Oregon (Purchase Tickets , Agenda).  I wanted to share 10 reasons why you should attend our most awesome event: 1) Because making Beer Googles with Oregon Microbrew definitely improves the view. 2) After SearchFest, you can head over to the Rose Garden to watch the Blazers beat the Kings. 3) Our conference will be the first search marketing Read more [...]

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Dustin Woodard will be speaking about "Reputation Management" at SearchFest 2010, which will take place on March 9th at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Tickets are available now. To purchase, please click the following link. 1) Please give me your background & tell us what you do for a living. Armed with two finance-related degrees, my first job out of college was for an asset management company where I helped manage portfolios for wealthy individuals. My desire for using Read more [...]

Jon Kelly will be speaking about "Advanced PPC" at SearchFest 2010, which will take place on March 9th at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Tickets are available now. To purchase, please click the following link. 1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living. I started my career consulting to insurance companies at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) in the mid-90's.  From there, I had a brief stint in marketing at Oracle.  I've Read more [...]

February 9, 2010 – Tuesday night began with Ian Lurie, from Portent Interactive, sharing his suggestions on making the link building process as easy as possible.  Anticipate how people might break your links and create 301 redirects.  You should also perform a search query for any non-linking citations and beware of people stealing your content. EngineWorks’ Kent Schnepp discussed the importance of link bait as a major factor in determining ranking.  When defining your link bait strategy, Read more [...]

David Szeleta will be speaking about "Advanced PPC" at SearchFest 2010, which will take place on March 9th at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Tickets are available now. To purchase, please click the following link. Online advertising expert David Szetela is Owner and CEO of Clix Marketing, one of the few agencies that specializes exclusively in pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, creating and optimizing clients’ Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft adCenter advertising Read more [...]

Stefan Weitz will be giving the keynote at SearchFest 2010, which will take place on March 9th at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Tickets are available now. To purchase, please click the following link. 1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living. I’m your classic geek. I began writing code at 8 and went downhill from there. Arrived at Microsoft at the impressionable age of 22 and have been here ever since. People ask me all the time why I’m still Read more [...]

Matthew Inman will be speaking about "The Blogosphere" at SearchFest 2010, which will take place on March 9th at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Tickets are available now. To purchase, please click the following link. 1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living. I used to work for SEOmoz, and eventually quit to found an online dating website.  I built it in 66.5 hours using a rapid development framework called CakePHP, marketed it using a quizbait Read more [...]

SearchFest 2010 will take place on March 9th at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Tickets are available now. To purchase, please click the following link. 1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living. I've been working in SEO since 2006, when a marketing internship at Onvia quickly ballooned into blogging and then a full-on search marketing position after their existing SEO left.  Over the years I've developed a passion for testing and data-driven Read more [...]