Bill Hartzer

Google to Close Dallas Texas Office

Perhaps it is a sign of the times, but Google is closing their Dallas, Texas location, as well as their Denver, Colorado location. These were primarily sales offices to support their Google AdWords programs. As one of the founders of the Dallas Search Engine Marketing Association, I have to say that ...

2008 Survey Says Undergrads Want to Work for Google

The 2008 Universe IDEAL(TM) Employer Survey says that undergrads' desire to work for Google is growing. The survey also reports that the demand to work for Ernst & Young made a big jump over laster year. Job security and the work-life balance are reportedly top concerns. Nearly one in five undergraduate ...

Jeffrey Pruitt of iCrossing to Keynote Baidu World Conference

Jeffrey Pruitt, iCrossing's Executive Vice President of Corporate Partnerships, is set to deliver the keynote address at the Baidu World Conference in Beijing on June 5th. Pruitt's presentation will be about the future of search marketing. The Baidu World Conference is an annual event hosted by Baidu.com, Inc., the world's ...

Sphinn is a Dysfunctional Social Network Because Internet Marketers Don’t Understand Social Networking

Eric Lander has a great blog post about Sphinn. If you have not heard of Sphinn.com, Sphinn is a "News, Discussion Forums & Networking for Search & Internet Marketing Professionals" site. It's Danny Sullivan's social networking site for internet marketing professionals. Since Eric has written a great post and has ...

Search Engine Workshops Now Offering Online Search Engine Marketing Resource Center

Search Engine Academy is now offering a networking community for search engine marketers. This new networking community is the first on the internet to offer a place where search engine optimizers can meet and share strategies, access other online areas, and get the latest updated material on a regular basis. Search ...

Electronic Retailer Magazine’s LiveEdit Lab Coming January 30; Search Engine Marketing Expert Dana Todd to Speak

Electronic Retailer Magazine is having their inaugural LiveEdit Lab on January 30, 2008. If you are lucky enough to attend, you will be able to interact with the speakers, panelists and editorial staff at a reception immediately following the conference. You'll also be able to ask the experts questions. Liquid Focus, ...

DART Search Now Supports Bid Management and Conversion Tracking Ask Sponsored Listings

  DoubleClick and IAC Advertising Solutions have launched DART Search's bid management and conversion tracking features for Ask Sponsored Listings(R) (ASL). There is now deeper integration via the ASL API. If you're a DART advertiser, then you can now manage your ad business on the ASL Network more productively. In ...

Dallas Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association Ranks Top Organic Search Engine Optimization Indicators

On Monday night, January 21st, 2008 you need to be in Dallas at the Richardson Rennaissance Hotel if you're looking for organic search engine optimization help. The Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association (the association I founded) will present the findings--and experts will answer your questions--during the meeting. Dallas is home ...

Sequoia Invests in Kenshoo and Search Engine Marketing Automation Technology

  Is Jason Calacanis now in the search engine marketing automation business? Perhaps not, but an interesting investment by Sequoia Capital, the company that where Jason Calacanis serves as "Entrepreneur in Action", puts Mr. Calacanis a little closer to being in the SEM automation business. Sequoia Capital and Kenshoo, a ...

Las Vegas Pubcon 2007 Wrapups and Shout Outs

Last week I spoke on two (yes, two) panels (at the same time) at the Pubcon conference held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. I would to thank Brett Tabke and Webmasterworld for putting on yet another great conference. I'd like to thank Lawrence Coburn for moderating, ...

March 15th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Optimization 4 Comments

How Search Engine Optimization Adds Value to a Website

Most likely, if you have a website for your business, you probably have been pitched by a host of companies about the benefits of Search Engine Optimization. And, as someone who has been actively practicing organic search engine optimization since 1996, I am probably just as qualified as anyone else ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 4 Comments

Search Engine Optimization: Is Social Sharing the Next Link Building?

I just finished reading an interesting TechCrunch article about how Google has upgrade Google Reader, making it more visual. What's interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. It is, after all, pretty cool stuff. No ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Internet Usage One Comment

comScore February 2010 Search Engine Rankings

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, ...
March 9th 2010
Tags: Search Engines No Comments

CheapTweet Upgrades Its Social Deals Search Engine

CheapTweet.com, a major Twitter-based social deals search engine site, has launched CheapTweet Version 2, in celebration of indexing over 5 million deals online to offer users an better social shopping experience. CheapTweet's 2.0 rollout adds upgrades to its core search engine, voting mechanism, and a new look and feature called ...

Search Engine Optimization and Network Marketing: How to Get More Leads

I had an interesting conversation over the weekend with Marvin, who called me to discuss Network Marketing. Somehow we had become connected through Facebook or another social networking website and he thought that since we were tagged as being friends online he believed that that gave him permission to call ...

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