I’m here a few days early in Fort Lauderdale, getting prepared for the Pubcon SFIMA conference being held on Thursday, April 24, 2014. I’m honored to have been asked to speak on two separate panels this time:

2014 SEO Basics – While many of the core rules of SEO still hold true, there are some tactics that were OK in early 2013 that are not OK in 2014. This session will cover the 101 basics of SEO today. Make sure your Search Engine Strategies are correct. I’m speaking with Kathryn Parsons, the Marketing Manager (Paid and Natural Search) at Office Depot.

Tomorrow’s SEO Today – Social Search and Beyond – As search results become more personalized, it’s only natural that social media networks play a bigger role in these tailored search results. Learn how social search produces results that are specific to the individual and how your brand can stay relevant in these results as the social impact on search continues to grow. I’m speaking in this session with Mindy Weinstein, the SEO Manager and Trainer at Bruce Clay, Inc.. [Read more…]

The PubCon conference, being held in New Orleans March 17 to March 20, 2014 at the New Orleans Convention Center, is a great conference that I’m attending and speaking at next week. I don’t remember how many PubCon conferences I’ve been to and spoken on panels at, but it’s going on at least 10, perhaps 15 of them. [Read more…]

Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 28, the annual regional Pubcon Austin conference is being held at the AT&T Conference Center on the University of Texas campus. There are three session tracks covering the latest local social media and search-related research, and some awesome speakers with some great presentations. I’ll be presenting with Eric Enge on Social Signals and SEO, so make sure you don’t miss that one if you’re going to be attending the conference in Austin. [Read more…]

Pubcon, one of the world’s best internet marketing conferences, is coming to the Dallas, Texas this week (April 13 to 15, 2010). If you are within a few hours’ drive from the Dallas, Texas area and your company has a website then you will benefit from attending this internet marketing conference and trade show. [Read more…]

TheIntegrated Marketing Summit is bringing 30 of the United States’ leading experts to St. Louis, Missouri on December 10, 2009. Some of the topics include social media, sales and marketing lead management, search engine optimization, and integrated marketing. [Read more…]

Attend the Link Building Strategies for SEO Event in Dallas Texas on October 14, 2009, where we talk about Black Hat versus White Hat Link Building

I have to admit, search engine optimization (SEO) is difficult. It is not an exact science, although some would like to tell you that it is. Not only do you have to have a great website that takes into account the “best practices” of search engine optimization, like Title Tags, Meta Tags, Heading Tags, Alt Tags, and making sure your “keywords” are mentioned on the page, you have to deal with the constant, proper link building. Promoting your website on other websites is sometimes a daunting task, even when you think you are in a non-competitive industry. [Read more…]

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. [Read more…]

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. [Read more…]

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. [Read more…]

MarketNet has officially announced our new “seminar series” on eBusiness Evolution…and our first seminar on “Web 2.0” will be held on April 19th, 2007, here in Dallas, Texas. [Read more…]

Web 2.0 Expo 2007 is coming soon. In fact, it’s scheduled for April 15 to April 18, 2007 at Moscone West in San Francisco. [Read more…]

Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank.com, will speak at the Search Engine Strategies’ New York City event about how social bookmarking communities can drive traffic to your website. In the talk, he will highlight the business benefits of social bookmarking. [Read more…]

Dr. Dobb’s has officially announced the line-up for the upcoming Life 2.0 Summit, which is an in-depth virtual training event that will take place in Second Life from April 28 to May 4, 2007. [Read more…]

The Internet has not only changed the way people communicate with one another, but it has also changed the way businesses communicate with their customers, opening up a whole new way to market and advertise. [Read more…]

SEO Class has officially launched–and they’re kicking off the series of internet marketing workshops by offering a “Pro Bono” internet marketing workshop for charities and non-profit organizations in New York City on March 23, 2007. [Read more…]

How would you like to join a bunch of others in the search engine marketing industry and go to Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen and Hong Kong? If that sounds too good to be true, then you might consider take a look at the China Search Marketing Tour. The China Search Marketing Tour is partnering with the Search Engine Strategies China 2007 conference to provide a great search engine marketing event to be held May 19 – May 28, 2007. [Read more…]

Search Marketing Expo (SMX) is a conference being billed as an event “for sophisticated search marketers who want to experience cutting-edge sessions that keep them ahead in the fast changing world of search.” Registration is now open. [Read more…]

The next Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association DFWSEM meeting will be held on Monday, February 18, at the Renaissance Hotel in Richardson. This will be an open networking and informational event that will follow up on sessions from Search Engine Watch Live in Dallas. Time is from 6:30 PM to 8 PM. [Read more…]

Jill Whalen, a true “white hat” search marketer that I highly respect, is holding another of her High Rankings Search Engine Marketing (SEM) seminars in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 15th and March 16th at the Crowne Plaza Northstar. I don’t normally come out and openly promote search engine marketing seminars usually, but this is one of two seminars that I truly believe in because of the faculty and people who will show up to teach there. [Read more…]