SEMpdx Blog

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.

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.

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.

Please tell us why in the comments below. Winner to be announced on our about June 3rd.

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.

SEMpdx Social Networking Rooftop Party 2010

Attention advertisers, marketers, PR pros, online gurus, tech geeks, social media rock stars and search engine marketers! Join us Tuesday, August 10th for a fabulous evening of drinks, hors d’oeuvres, live music and social networking on the roof of Hotel deLuxe in downtown Portland.

Location: On the roof of Hotel deLuxe

729 SW 15th Ave, Portland, OR
Date:Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Time: 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Cost: $12