by Scott | Oct 4, 2007 | Events, Local news
I’m going to be attending the Search Engine Strategies Local show in Los Angeles on November 28, 29th, and 30th, and you have a chance to go too with a free ticket worth nearly $1600! Or, you could win an $1800 pass to SES Chicago to be held December 3 –...
by Scott | Sep 27, 2007 | Education, General interest, Local news, SEO-101
When I first wanted to take classes in search engine optimization, my options were pretty limited, and there were no Oregon search engine marketing classes offered anywhere that I was aware of. After narrowing it down to just a couple of choices, I settled on...
by Scott | Sep 27, 2007 | Microsoft
Earlier in the month I applied to the beta program for the Microsoft Webmaster portal when I first heard it was coming out, and yesterday, I finally received my invitation for registration. You know the way your Aunt or neighbor forwards you those jokes in e-mails...
by Scott | Sep 24, 2007 | Competition Research
I got my invitation to the public beta of the Compete.com Search Analytics program today. Since I had some extra time on my hands, I signed up for a new account. The first thing I noticed was that they asked my household income, but never does ask for a company...
by Scott | Sep 24, 2007 | SEO-101
I still believe that the single most important ranking factor for organic search optimization is the title tag, and I was giving some SEO 101 lessons to my son who is 10 years old. He’s had his own blog for a while now, because I didn’t want him playing...
by Scott | Sep 21, 2007 | Google
As of today it’s been 141 days since the last visible Google Toolbar Pagerank update. That is nearly 3 weeks longer than the longest previous period on record of 122 days, (October 19, 2005 to February 18, 2006). I know this because my own website just launched...
by Scott | Sep 17, 2007 | Technology News, Web Design
On my blog, the Blog Rush widget is showing links to those that do not have the widget installed, and I believe I’ve figured out why. On the home page of blog Rush today, they address some of the issues people have been discussing in the blogosphere, and while...
by Scott | Sep 16, 2007 | Technology News, Web Design
With Blog Rush, you can easily give links to other people right on your blog, and you might get absolutely nothing in return. Wow, this is going to catch on like wildfire, isn’t it? To be fair, I suspect (hope) it’s just a bug in the program that allows me...
by Scott | Sep 14, 2007 | Social Networking, Web 2.0
When it comes to social media marketing, the very term itself is almost an oxymoron. If you think about the process only as “marketing”, you’re likely going to fail, because you are trying to exploit the very concept that these networks were founded...
by Scott | Sep 13, 2007 | Google
I’ve been in and out of Google Webmaster tools all day, and its continued to look the same, but suddenly tonight the interface is a bit different. The dashboard looks the same but as soon as you get into any domain, there’s a slightly different feel to...
by Scott | Sep 11, 2007 | Events
Portland, Oregon is a hotbed of search talent, and tonight it’s going to be easy to find many of them in one place… Downtown at Paddys. Recently I’ve suggested to several people that they attend tonight’s SEMpdx (Search Engine Marketers of...
by Scott | Aug 28, 2007 | Yahoo
I wrote a blog post a few weeks ago about Yahoo selling its search results , and now I’m seeing another anomaly that appears as if those “unmarked, yet sponsored serps” may be available for sale in other ways too. If you do a search on Yahoo right...
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