Have you heard that it’s important to “optimize your content for search engines” – but you have no idea how to do it? Do prospects visit your site and leave without buying? Now, you can take control of your site – and learn the secrets to creating top-positioned Web content that informs, engages – and makes your company money!

Bend WebCAM, the mind-blowing Web, Creative and Marketing conference scheduled for September 30 – October 1, 2010 has added yet another amazing speaker to its already stellar line up. Jason Bagley, Creative Director on Old Spice’s world-famous “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” campaign has been confirmed as a keynote speaker on Thursday, September 30 at the Tower Theatre in downtown Bend, Oregon.

At my Pubcon hosting session last November, I predicted that Google would make page load time a ranking factor in 2010.

The very next day in his PubCon session, Matt Cutts made the announcement that speed as a ranking factor would be coming soon, and Google did make that happen in April of this year.

“What does it take to be successful in Social Media? For that matter, how do you even measure success? What are the right ways, and the wrong ways, to participate?

“Social Media” is now a catch phrase that’s come to mean many things, and there are millions of people Twittering, Digging, Buzzing and Stumbling their way through the day, but do they know where they’re going? Do they have a goal in mind, or even know know why they’re doing it?

According to Google Webmaster tools, an affiliate site of mine has over 26,000 links from several hundred different domains. That sounds great, doesn’t it?

One problem though – the majority of the links don’t seem to actually exist, and I have no idea where they came from!

I swear, I’ve been up to nothing fishy with this domain, (really!) but the vast majority of these links are coming from spammy sounding subdomains, and I can’t figure out what’s going on. Is someone trying to “linkspambomb” me?

Join thousands of fellow marketers (including Susan) for five days of marketing education and conversation! ClickZ Connected Marketing Week, August 16-20, in San Francisco!

1) Please give us your background and tell us what you do for a living.

As the CEO of Personal Life Media, Inc., I am a publisher of eBooks focused on your personal and professional growth. We call them “eBooks with Benefits” because our downloadable books and membership sites typically consist of pdf’s in the form of books and workbooks, plus audio and video companion files.

July’s SEMpdx networking event promises to be a good one, as we try out a new venue. There’s no charge to attend this one, and no “education” beyond that which you’ll get from hobnobbing with the smartest internet marketers in Portland.

Where:
The Hop and Vine
1914 North Killingsworth Street
Portland, Oregon 97217

When:
Tuesday July 20 – 4:30pm to 6:30 pm

WordStream continues to add to their suite of free search marketing tools with The Free Negative Keyword Tool to help boost efficiency and ROI in paid search marketing

BOSTON, MA – June 22, 2010 – WordStream, Inc., a provider of keyword research tools for pay-per-click (PPC) and search engine optimization (SEO) efforts, today launched The Free Negative Keyword Tool, which is designed to quickly identify lists of highly-effective negative keywords for PPC advertisers.

I’ve now added the PubCon discount to the SEMpdx member discount page, and if you’ve never been to a Webmaster World PubCon event, it’s well worth attending.

Although many other conferences offer similar content and speakers, only PubCon is held in fabulous Las Vegas!

The thing I used to actually dislike about PubCon in Las Vegas was that everyone is so spread out, that it was hard to get people together, and hard to find the parties, afterparties, and the unsanctioned get-togethers.  In a smaller venue where everyone stays primarily in one or two hotels, it’s just easier.

As you may already know, the Online Marketing Summit 22 City Tour is about to kick off this week. Two new thought leaders have just been added to the long list of expert speakers; Jeff Hayzlett, CMO of Kodak and author of best-selling Mirror Test and Clara Shih, author of The Facebook Era.