Attention search engine marketers, web designers, developers, digital strategists, PR rockstars and social media mavens! The SEMpdx board would like you to join us for an evening of social networking!

When: Tuesday April 20th, 2009 at 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Where: Rontoms 600 E Burnside, Portland, OR 97214
Cost: Free!!!

Seriously folks, if you want to verify the quality of a SEO vendor, ask for references. Read their blog posts. Look at their LinkedIn page and see how much a part of the SEO community they are. However, using an SEO verification service when you can't verify the quality of the Search Marketer doing the verifying is a valuable as making a donation to that Nigerian prince asking for help in rescuing his family fortune. Read more here. Peek a Boo I see you! Verified SEO Open Challenge Verified Read more [...]

What Portland-area digital marketing pro wouldn’t want the chance to meet Guy Kawasaki, business visionary, venture capitalist, author of nine books and nationally renowned speaker? Verizon and Cisco have recently partnered up to offer you a chance to not only meet Guy, but possibly land a personal two-hour consultation with him for your business. Entering to win is simple. In an effort to promote its Verizon Collaboration Center, a Web-based service that offers small and medium businesses Read more [...]

Each year, SEMpdx selects a Charity of Choice to support for a 12 month period, and for 2009, the Police Activities League was selected as our Charity of Choice. Throughout 2009, we consulted with them to improve their search marketing efforts and recently, we presented them with a check for $1,200 to further support the important programs they provide our community. Our 2010 Charity of Choice is the Oregon Humane Society, and if you went to SearchFest, you knew that :.) Read more [...]

Join Marshall Kirpatrick of Read Write Web website as he moderates a lively discussion on the pros and cons of Social Media today. In the Pro corner will be Kelly Feller, Social Media Strategist at Intel and Kent Lewis of Anvil Media and SEMpdx. In the Con corner will be Jerry Ketel of Leopold Ketel & Partners and special guests. Should brands invade the social space? Do the metrics of social media translate to ROI? Find out! DATE: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 TIME:  5:30p Arrivals/6p Read more [...]

Blogosphere SearchFest 2010 Session Link Building for the SEO PRofessional Speakers: John Andrews – JohnOn.com Adam Audette – AudetteMedia Moderator: Todd Mintz Liveblogger: Nick Herinckx of Anvil Media Inc, a Portland Oregon SEM agency Session Details General Link Building The old saying, "build great content and links will come naturally" just isn't true, there is so much great content on the web that nobody knows about. In order to get inbound links, you have to not just build Read more [...]

Learn how to leverage advanced SEO tools to improve the performance of your website. Speakers: Rand Fishkin - SEOmoz Richard Zwicky - Enquisite Moderator: Scott Hendison Liveblogger: Live blogging by Rachel Andersen of Anvil Media, a Portland SEM Agency. Session Details 10 Problems SEOs Face - and the Tools to Solve Them (Rand) Find all tools mentioned here: http://www.seomoz.org/dp/10-seo-tools Indexation Data: ignore site command - the "about" number is useless. Webmaster Tools Read more [...]

Local Search SearchFest 2010 Session Up-to-date strategies for achieving prominence within Local Search listings. Speakers: Mary Bowling – SEOverflow Matt McGee – Small Business SEM Chris Silver Smith –KeyRelevance Moderator: David Mihm Liveblogger: John McPhee of Anvil Media, a Portland SEM agency Session Details David Mihm has taken the stage to discuss the important stuff, cocktails after the session. OK, now the real introductions… Mary Bowling starts first. Local search Read more [...]

Tools & Competitive Intelligence SearchFest 2010 Session Learn more about your competitors. This session will teach you how to gain the insights necessary via tools to help facilitate advantageous business decisions. Speakers: Neil Patel – ACS Jordan Kasteler – Search and Social Brian Carter – Fuel Interactive Session Details Brian Carter was the first speaker for this session. His talk is about competitive intelligence for social media and SEO. 44% of marketers using social media Read more [...]

Landing Page Testing Great session full of tips, and excellent advice about how to deal with landing page testing and optimization. Please bare with my gross spelling and grammatical errors, and special shout out to Evan Davies for the use of his laptop. Mary Huffman kicked off the session by offering 10 aspects to test on your landing pages. These 10 items are great ways to squeeze more value out of the clicks. Mary recommended testing every aspect of a page in a measured approach if possible. Read more [...]