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Si Senor Restaurant Beaverton, Oregon

3 such signs are placed in reasonably close proximity on the walls of the restaurant facing the customers. They are as subtle as a patron publicly experiencing gastrointestinal discomfort and have exactly the same effect on all in the vicinity. Penny smart, chip foolish?

The Pacific Northwest’s largest search engine marketing conference to include keynote from Microsoft Bing’s Stefan Weitz

Portland, Ore. – Jan. 25th, 2010 – SEMpdx is pleased to announce the schedule and pricing of its fourth annual Search Engine Marketing conference, SearchFest 2010. SearchFest 2010 takes place at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration is now open to the public (http://www.sempdx.org/searchfest/) and ticket prices are on sale starting at $159 for members, $209 for non-members and a special student rate for $135.

Headlining the prestigious list of speakers is Stefan Weitz, Director of Microsoft’s Bing search. Weitz will discuss the shift in behaviors of searchers and how marketers will need to adjust their strategies to a more task-centric approach where users are coming to search to get something done in the real world, rather than just to find information.

SearchFest 2010 differs from previous years in that it now has special social media tracks in addition to the search engine optimization and pay-per-click session’s regular visitors have come to expect.

SEMpdx has partnered with CMD, Oregon’s largest multi-disciplined marketing agency, and specifically with the agency’s earned media group, to help further promote and raise SEMpdx’s profile.

CMD has been a front runner in developing best practices for how to incorporate social media and search within PR efforts for its clients, such as Cisco Systems, NW Natural, Intel and JELD-WEN, inc. In fact, the agency’s PR group recently changed its name to CMD’s earned media group, which better reflects CMD’s philosophy that generating exposure and building a reputation in today’s increasingly digital world requires seamlessly incorporating creative PR, search and social media solutions.

BEND, Oregon – August 6, 2009 – Pixelsilk, an SEO-friendly content management system (CMS) today announces the release of their Partner Portal during this year’s SES San Jose conference.

The Partner Portal is designed to meet the needs of web development companies and marketing agencies – or any group that needs to manage multiple sites from one control panel. Pixelsilk was designed to facilitate SEO best practices and these assets can now be leveraged across multiple sites with one place of management.

BEND, Oregon – August 6, 2009 – Pixelsilk, an SEO-friendly content management system (CMS), announces the launch of Search Advice, which integrates SEO expertise from the Bruce Clay, Inc. SEOToolSet® into Pixelsilk. The new feature will be unveiled during this year’s Search Engine Strategies (SES) Conference in San Jose.

There’s a special place in hell for the marketer who created and sent me the following email:

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Feel free to click the link and let me know if I’m being a little harsh on these folks.

SEMpdx Social Networking Rooftop Party

Registration Has Closed For This Event and admissions will NOT be accepted at the door, we’re sorry. 

Location: On the roof of Hotel deLuxe

729 SW 15th Ave, Portland, OR
Date: August 18, 2009
Time: 5:30pm to 9:00pm
Cost: $10.00

Join us Tuesday August 18th on the roof of Hotel deLuxe in beautiful downtown Portland for a wonderful evening of old school social networking with our friends from:

In conjunction with the upcoming SES San Jose, I was fortunate enough to be able to interview Johannes Henkel from the Google Search Quality Team. Here are his answers to my questions (love the hat, dude :.) )

1) Please give us your background and what your primary duties are at Google.
I graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder. For my thesis work I made a system that helps developers specify and document their programs. At Google I worked on the build system and other internal tools that help programmers. Currently I’m working on tools for evaluating and improving search quality, especially for reducing spam.

“I’m a model you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah
I do my little turn on the catwalk”…Right Said Fred

So, the other day, I got this very interesting email from a domain seller:

Friday, July 24th – 1:30-5:30pm

The Internet Strategy Forum has added this special social media session from the Online Marketing Institute featuring SEMpdx board member Hallie Janssen. SEMpdx has partnered with the Internet Strategy Forum and the Online Marketing Institute to bring you this event. Sign up with our SEMpdx discount "SEMPDX" and save.

Social Media expert Hallie Janssen of Anvil Media Inc. goes beyond the basics and takes a deep dive into the marketing power of Social Media. In this ½ day session, you’ll learn how to: