The SEMPDX conference, Engage 2017 Portland, formerly known as SearchFest, is being held on Thursday, March 9, 2017 at the Sentinel Hotel in Portland, Oregon. I’m honored to be speaking again this year at the conference, where I’m presenting on technical SEO and performing a technical SEO audit of your website. [Read more…]
At the State of Search conference held this week, as US Brand Ambassador for Majestic, I had the pleasure of presenting a session on linking, titled “Advanced Link Training”. In this sponsored session, I went through the basics of links, as well as link cleanups and recovering from a Google manual action. [Read more…]
During that first evening, back in 2004 when Jim Gilbert and I first met with 16 of the best internet marketers and SEOs in the D/FW area, I never thought I’d be posting now about the State of Search conference. You see, I had hand-picked those first 16 people and personally invited them to show up to what ended up as being the very first Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association meeting. That was the founding group, the founding members. [Read more…]
For years and years (over 10 years now), I’ve been attending and speaking at Pubcon conferences. From New Orleans to Fort Lauderdale, Austin, and Las Vegas, I’ve seen a lot of sessions, both good and…. anyhow, for the past several years I have been putting together my own list of speakers to see. I’ve chosen sometimes 6 speakers and sometimes 86 speakers. [Read more…]
I’ve recently received word that CLickZ Events and Search Engine Strategies have officially closed down. The event series of conferences has been shut down and apparently will no longer be holding events in the future. Based in New York City, the event series has closed down both in New York and in Asia. [Read more…]
So, every time that I attend a Pubcon conference (PubCon South Florida, PubCon Austin, PubCon Las Vegas, etc.) I hand-pick a list of speakers that you absolutely must see. I know it’s quite a daunting task to figure out which sessions you should see and which speakers you should try to meet, so I have done some of the heavy-lifting for you. [Read more…]
As a co-founder of the Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association, I highly recommend that you plan attend the State of Search 2015 Conference, being held in Dallas on November 16th and 17th, 2015. Back in 2003 when I first personally chose a list of founders and invited them to get together at a local hotel in Dallas, I didn’t envision that we would be at this point: holding an annual conference and having digital marketing and search engine marketing speakers from all over the United States (and beyond) attend. [Read more…]
I could have written so many different titles for this post. I could have written a title like “Click It Summit Fails at Inviting Speakers” or maybe even “Click It Summit Spams The Internet Marketing Community”. But in all fairness, I decided to just leave it as the current title, showing that this is a lesson how NOT to invite speakers to speak at your next event. [Read more…]
Well, SMX West 2015 is almost over–well at least it is for me, as I’ll be headed out during the last day of this San Jose conference back to Dallas/Fort Worth after more than a week on the road speaking at multiple conferences. I spoke at the awesome SearchFest conference in Portland, Oregon on Friday, left Portland for California, and finally on to San Jose for SMX West 2015. I spoke about SEO Audits at SearchFest and then on the HTTP vs HTTPS panel at SMX West. [Read more…]
Whenever I attend great marketing conferences, and I have been doing so since 2001, I try to hand pick a list of speakers that you absolutely must see speak. This is my personal best-of-the-best list. I’ve personally heard all of them speak previously, know the information that they present, and consider them the “best of the best”. The bottom line? I know that you won’t be disappointed if you take the time to see any of these speakers present during SMX West 2015, held again this year at the San Jose convention center in San Jose California. [Read more…]