At marketing conferences readers of Online Marketing Blog mention to me frequently about the photo roundup posts we do as favorites. We certainly like to make those posts and since readers like to see them, here is a collection of favorite candids taken during SES San Jose.
Kevin Ryan, Misty Locke, Kevin Newcomb
Danny Sullivan, Matt Cutts, Kristina Mangers
Jeremy Shoe (SEO sucks) money
and Brent Csutoras
Jill Whalen, Patricia Hursh, Christine Churchill
Matt Cutts & Michael Gray
John Diorio, Bryan Eisenberg
Dave Temple, Greg Jarboe, Andy Beal
Jessica Cameron-Ruud, Ashley Bruce
Thomas McMahon, Dana Larson
Todd Friesen, Brett Crosby
Chris Boggs, Rebecca Lieb (crop)
Roger Akers and Mike McDonald
Patrick Sexton, Lisa Barone
Dan Robbins, Heather Lloyd-Martin
Fionn Downhill, Bruce Clay
Kathleen Fealy, Matt Van Wagner
Of course, a good photo wrap up would be amiss without fun photos of Kevin Ryan and Danny Sullivan from the Google Dance. Any suggestions on good captions?
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What a great conference for SES at San Jose and the many new people to the event in attendance. Below are the TopRank team blog posts for the final day. Another big thank you goes to (L to R) Jessica, Ashley, Thomas and Dana for a great job covering sessions. If you saw these happy faces at the conference, be sure to comment and say hello. Thanks to SES too, for having us.
Google Dance 2008 Photos - TopRank Team
Blog SEO Tips from SES San Jose - Lee
Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Michael Brito Intel - Lee
Social Media Analysis and Tracking - Jessica
Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Heather Lloyd-Martin DMA SEMC - Lee
Black Hat vs White Hat Playing Dirty with SEO - Ashley
It was a great conference with plenty of all new sessions and many tried and true topics. Of the sessions I was able to attend, I particularly enjoyed:
Tech Giants Orion […]
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There were many good photos taken at this year’s Google Dance that we decided to show a collage here with a link to the full set on TopRank’s SES San Jose Google Dance photos on Flickr.
A big thank you goes to the hard working TopRank blogging team at SES putting out an amazing number of posts and photos each day.
Jessica, Ashley, Thomas, Dana @ Google Dance
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Moderator Dana Todd & Lee Odden
Blogs have been abuzz for at least 4 years in the tech space and in the past 2-3 years in the business marketing world. Like many new marketing/communication channels, there continues to be a need to demystify shiny new objects and what they mean for businesses. Blogs and search engine optimization are no different.
One point I would make is that companies are wasting their long term time when setting up blogs purely for SEO purposes. It’s short term thinking and over time, results in difficulties with keeping momentum, new ideas and content. How do I know? Been there and done that, many times.
It’s far more realistic to implement blogs for specific purposes such as product communications, online newsroom, thought leader/strategy, customer support/communications, news, branding, advice/tips, aggregation of content in specific topics and many more. Regardless of the purpose, each blog implementation and ongoing management […]
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Wow, what a conference! Search Engine Strategies is near it’s end and what better way to wrap up our series on internet marketing conference tips than with the following super-tips from super smart Michael Brito, Social Media Program Manager at Intel.
Michael worked with HP then moved on to Yahoo and is now with Intel practicing his adept social media stylings. Be sure to check out Britopian and the social media practitioner blog, Conversations Matter, for more of his insights.
Not all marketing conferences are created equal and from a content perspective, some are much better than others. Last month I attended SMX Social in Long Beach, California; and the content seemed to be more aligned with SEO than Social Media. Nonetheless, there were plenty of really good takeaways from the conference, but the true value for me was networking and meeting others who work in the same space […]
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Social Search can be used to drive traffic, conversions, and increase ROI by monitoring conversations happening online. This panel is a first for SES with Marshall Sponder, Senior Web Analyst for Monster.com as the Moderator.
Industry leaders Todd Parsons, Co-founder and CPO of Buzz Logic, Rob Key, CEO of Converseon, Edmund Won, Vice President of Strategy for iCrossing along with Breanna Wigle, CRM manager for Military Advantage share insight into monitoring the conversation and best practices to track success.
Marshall kicked off the session making the case for Google to start measuring and reporting user trends in social media.
Categorizing referring traffic from social media is the first step in attributing success. Is your traffic coming from blogs, social network sites, message forums, bookmarking sites, micro media sites and photo sharing sites?
Rob spoke specifically to the expanding social media universe and developing a social media marketing strategy.
With the expanding social media universe, you […]
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SES San Jose week is nearly over one might say we’ve saved some of the best internet marketing conference tips for last with the ever enthusiastic and insightful Heather Lloyd-Martin.
Heather is Chair, DMA’s Search Engine Marketing Council and President of SuccessWorks. She also blogs about copywriting at SEO Copywriting.
Attend all the “search marketing site labs” or “search marketing clinics” you can find. During a site lab, a panel of experts review Web sites on the fly and discuss how to improve them for search positioning and conversions.
Here’s why they are so cool:
1. If your site is reviewed, you get free consulting from the best minds in the industry. Search marketing experts charge anywhere from $250-$500+ an hour. Even if a three or four-person panel spends just 15 minutes reviewing your site, you are seeing remarkable value for your money. I’ve seen panels suggest one site tweak that ended up […]
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People love controversy, and that was clearly in evidence at this SES session covering the most controversial of SEO debates, White Hat versus Black Hat. Moderator Matthew Baily of SiteLogic and his crew of experts from both sides spoke to a standing-room only crowd. Panelists included:
Greg Boser of 3 Dog Media
Todd Friesen, Director of SEO at Range Online
Bruce Clay, President of Bruce Clay, Inc.
David Naylor, SEO of Bronco
Jill Whalen, CEO of High Rankings
The speakers were, for the most part, vague about what color their hats were, but each expert drew upon their own professional experience, techniques and observations when responding to questions posed by Matthew and the audience.
What is Black Hat SEO?
Jill and Bruce kicked off the debate by responding to this question. Bruce stated that both the search engines and clients decide what is white versus black. White SEOs tend to play in the middle, Greys at the edge […]
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Entering the realm of social media can be a bit like trying to enter an exclusive club. There are barriers to entry, codes of conduct, and unwelcome outsiders are quickly identified and ostracized. Yet, like an exclusive club, the benefits of membership can be great. Marketers looking to benefit from social media would do well to heed the advice of the three presenters in this SES session, moderated by Pauline Ore of IBM Corporation.
As Kendall Allen, digital marketing and convergence media consultant, pointed out, social media has come a long way since the advent of the Internet. Listservs, user groups and chat rooms have given way to the networking giants of Facebook and Myspace.
These highly organized, more defined social networks have made it possible for marketers to establish a brand presence among their consumers. Kendall stated that social media optimization should be integrated into any comprehensive, cross-platform marketing plan.
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News search engines offer a great way to receive targeted traffic related to breaking topics or to help with a public relations launch. In this session, industry experts Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank Online Marketing, Lisa Buyer, President & CEO of The Buyer Group and Greg Jarboe, President and Co-Founder, SEO-PR look at how to make use of press releases and news content to tap into the power of news search.
Lisa kicked off our session explaining that optimized press releases are a vital part of any news SEO strategy.
The first step to defining the online PR opportunity is to define the media segment. With your online PR campaign are you targeting editors, journalists, analysts or the media?
Media relations does not just mean getting your story found in the search results, but rather helping journalists find their story online.
So, how are journalists searching for news?
- Reaching out to […]
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