November 2008 Archives : Bruce Clay Blog
November 26, 2008Happy Thanksgiving!
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving! We’re off the next two days, but we’ll be back in full force Monday. Over this lovely holiday weekend, I hope you take a moment to count all of the great things that have been part of your life this year. Also, take a moment to laugh. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Want to Know the State of the SEM Industry?
I mentioned this Monday, but it’s that time again. SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, has opened its annual State of the Market Survey. Through December, the organization will be accepting responses to questions that, once analyzed, will enlighten us about spending and resources devoted to search marketing across the board. Last year’s survey, [...]
November 24, 2008
Friday – Monday Recap
Last Friday, a number of the Bruce Clay, Inc. databases went down. Right as I was about to post the Friday Recap. So that brings us to today’s post, the belated Friday (Monday) Recap. I didn’t have the heart to scrap the link-filled post that rounded up the week’s tech news sprinkled with random stories [...]
November 20, 2008
Six Questions with Tim Musgrove
As part of our series of Q&As with SES Chicago speakers, I got a chance to interview Tim Musgrove. Tim is the founder and CEO at TextDigger, a natural language search platform, and an all around expert in the semantic search field. He will be speaking on the panel Semantic Search: How Will It Change [...]
November 19, 2008
Why Blogger Outreach Can Fail
On Wednesdays, I usually share SEM Synergy Extras with the readers of this blog. And while this week’s show covered excellent topics — thanks, Sage Lewis! — there is another issue on my mind today: blogging, buzz and community building. It’s a relevant subject in our social media world — one where bloggers are the [...]
November 18, 2008
After Yang Steps Down, What Are Yahoo’s Next Steps?
Yesterday, Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo, announced that he would be stepping down from his position to return to the role of chief Yahoo. In a letter to employees, Yang said: last june, i accepted the board’s request that i assume the ceo role to restructure and reposition the company as a whole in order [...]
November 17, 2008
Alleged Snake-oil Salesmen Sued by State of Washington
Amid the flurry of blog posts covering PubCon last week, I totally missed the news that an Internet marketing services provider is being sued by the Washington state attorney general. The suit against Redmond-based Visible.net, along with sister companies Captures.com and WebMarketingSource.com and company owner Gilbert Walker, was filed last Wednesday and accuses the defendants [...]
November 14, 2008
Friday Recap: Happy 100th Birthday
Happy 100th Friday Recap to the Bruce Clay blog! The blog told me to thank to Susan and Lisa Barone — I linked there because I know she’d want me to — for helping to bring about 100 fun-filled and laugh-out-loud posts! Me, it’s not so impressed by. Too bad, blog! You’re mine now! On [...]
November 13, 2008
Super Session: Search Engines and Webmasters – aka: The Search Engine Smackdown
I could not be more excited for this session. Not because this is an easy session to recap, because it’s totally not, but because it’s the very last one and after this one is over, I get to go home. Brett Tabke has a whole group of search engine reps on the stage right now: [...]
Real-World, Low-Risk, High-Reward Link Building Strategies
Three sessions down, three sessions to go. Chris Tolles is moderating this session with speakers Eric Enge, President, Stone Temple Consulting; Rebecca Kelley, Search Marketing Consultant, SEOmoz; Roger Montti, Founder and Owner, martinibuster.com; and Greg Hartnett, President, Best of The Web. Eric Enge is up first. He urges us to think BIG. He cites yesterday’s [...]
