Pubcon Las Vegas 2015 Archives - Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog
November 3, 2015Latest on Mobile: Essential Takeaways for Marketers from SMX East & Pubcon
It’s becoming clear that mobile friendliness is more than a responsive website that gets a passing grade on the Mobile-Friendly Test.
The concept of mobile friendliness covers increasingly advanced digital media territory:
- Mobile apps: Do you have a mobile app? Is it indexable by Google?
- Mobile conversions and personas: Is mobile traffic failing to convert? That’s to be expected if mobile personas, mobile-specific conversions and calls to action haven’t been identified.
- Mobile advertising: Are you utilizing mobile search PPC features like call extensions and call-only campaigns?
At the two biggest search-industry conferences this fall, SMX East in New York and Pubcon Las Vegas, search engine reps and renowned speakers covered the full range of Internet marketing topics, especially mobile issues — everything from Google’s mobile-focused features to app indexing to mobile ads. We published 46 sessions and keynotes from these conferences on the BCI blog. Here we distill the most important news and advice related to mobile.
October 29, 2015
2 Big Things Changing SEO Forever — What’s New in SEO from SMX & Pubcon
Digital marketers and SEO industry insiders demand outstanding content for their limited blog-reading bandwidth. So, for SEOs who want to get straight to the heart of the latest game-changers, we offer our humble opinion that during the SMX East and Pubcon Las Vegas conferences of the last month, there were two big comets that hurtled from the sky, signaling changes to the SEO landscape forever:
- Machine learning algorithms ranking content based on searcher behavior feedback
- Predictive search serving searchers content before they ask
Here’s your front row seat to what’s new in SEO straight from SMX East and Pubcon Las Vegas.
October 14, 2015
SEO & SEM in the Competitive Automotive Space – Pubcon Liveblog
The automotive industry is incredibly competitive when it comes to search engine marketing. To rise to the competition requires in-depth local SEO knowledge and PPC know-how. This session offers strategies for local search marketing, both paid and organic, that all marketers can use. Our speakers are Ira Kates, who will speak to paid search, and Greg Gifford, who addresses organic SEO.
Read the liveblog from Pubcon.
October 12, 2015
Social and Mobile PR Secrets – Pubcon Liveblog
Do you want press for your business? Yes please! Here’s how to use social media in traditional and new ways to reach and influence the media. New opportunities to be covered by today’s speakers include making sure your content is mobile friendly and targeting the media through paid Facebook promotions.
Read the liveblog Social and Mobile PR Secrets.
October 9, 2015
Personal Branding & Social Strategy Advice You HAVEN’T Heard, Live from #Pubcon
Personal branding and social strategy – it’s a subject close to all digital marketers’ hearts. Mark Traphagen, Matt Craine and Mel Carson are speaking on this hot topic at Pubcon Las Vegas. Hear what they have to say on the importance of personal branding in a world
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Building an SEO/SEM Agency – #Pubcon Liveblog
What makes a great SEO or SEM agency? This question applies to companies looking to hire an agency, since they need to make sure they’re working with an agency team that can not only write a good RFP but also drive their KPIs. However, in this Pubcon Las Vegas session the speakers come at it from the agency’s point of view: How can you plan, start, hire, train and grow a successful agency team that can produce as well as sell?
Read the full liveblog with slides.
Millennial Expectations and Search Behavior Trends with Google’s Gary Illyes
Getting to know Millennials has been a hot topic at Pubcon Las Vegas 2015. Everyone’s talking about Millennials, including Google’s Gary Illyes (who’s a millennial himself!). He took the stage to deliver the grand finale keynote, and he’s going to tell us how Google is thinking about Millennials and how they’re shaping the future of search.
Read the liveblog report of Googler Gary Illyes’ keynote address at Pubcon Las Vegas 2015.
Hacking Art History to Make Content Stand Out: Liveblog of Katy Katz @Pubcon
Katy Katz (@KatyKatz), content director at Inturact, got her BA in art history, and today at Pubcon Las Vegas 2015, she’s delivering a talk on how hacking art history can actually help with content creation. Looking at the epic paintings of the past and how artists have crafted them gives content marketers fresh insight into creating quality, high-impact content, according to Katz.
Most people forget 90 percent of what you share, she says. Good content won’t cut it anymore. It has to be great. Like Rand Fishkin said in his Pubcon keynote, your content has to be 10 time better than everything else. Read on for tips from Katz, based on the lessons she’s learned from the great artists of history.
October 8, 2015
The High Cost of Free Traffic: Pubcon Keynote by Wil Reynolds
Not sure about going into paid search? The question is not whether or not to go into paid, says Pubcon Las Vegas keynote speaker Wil Reynolds. Instead, it is: What are you building that is worth paying for people to see? In this eye-opening session, Reynolds talks about why predicting the ROI of organic search rankings is “impossible” today and why it’s vital for brands to be creating “content that’s worth paying for.”
Read the liveblog of The High Cost of Free Traffic.
Reputation Management: How to Un-trash Your Brand – #Pubcon Liveblog
What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens online spills into the real world and affects brands and businesses in a major way. Live from Pubcon Las Vegas 2015, Simon Heseltine, senior director of audience development at AOL, and Tony Wright, CEO and founder of WrightIMC, are giving an example-packed presentation titled “Reputation Management: How to Un-trash Your Brand” on the ins and outs of online reputation management.
Heseltine is up first, and he’s going to share the way people and brands fail at online reputation management, before he turns it over to Wright — who will share how to combat the fails.
Read the full liveblog.
