Author Nick: SearchMojoBlog2
Name: Janet Driscoll-Miller
Site: http://www.search-mojo.com
Google unleashed its new product, Sidewiki – a way to allow website visitors to essentially leave comments and commentary in various formats on any given web page on any site.
What are Social Norms and Market Norms? Ariely defines social norms: Social norms include the friendly requests that people make of one another [they] are wrapped in our social nature and our need for community. Tye are usually warm and fuzzy.
This past weekend, two people I highly admire in the SEO community posted debates about what was termed the “SEO Boondoggle” – discussing the hacks of the industry and expressing frustration within our own ranks regarding inexperienced practitioners claiming to be SEO experts.
With the challenges facing the economy today, pricing, needless to say, is an issue on the minds of many search marketing agencies.
The final panel I attended at SMX Advanced was the “How Did They Do That? Accounts of Recent SEM Business Investments and Sales” panel, given by Michelle Goldberg of Ignition Partners, Jon Kelly of QuinStreet, John P. White of Moorgate Capital Partners, and Richard Zwicky of Enquisite.
This session featured Hamlet Batista of RankSense, Arnie Kuenn of Vertical Measures, and Chris Silver Smith of KeyRelevance. This was a very full, popular session – obviously something many are concerned with!
This session featured Tony Adam from Yahoo!, Tarla Cummings from Location3 Media, Ben Straley of Meteor Solutions, and Edmund Wong of iCrossing. Each panelist covered value from a different perspective.
First up on the agenda today is Social Media and Search Marketing: Not the Same Old Stuff, with a panel including Brent Csutoras of Brent Csutoras, Inc., Jen Miller of Delta, Dave Snyder of Search & Social and Michael Gray (aka Graywolf) of Atlas Web Services.
I just received an email from the Inside AdWords blog crew that put a smile on my face and should for all advertisers too – Google AdWords’ Search Query Report will now show all search queries instead of rolling many queries up under the line item “other unique queries.”
This year is going to be especially tough to get a job if you’re graduating in May. According to a report from NBC news, this year’s graduating class is the largest ever.