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Well, Paul Bruemmer with Red Door Interactive was approached to see if he would do it. He elaborates here in Search Engine Land.

Coming up in mid June is Search Engine Strategies Toronto on June 16th. The SEO Conference extends to the 18th of June and will be covering topics such as:

• How search engines list Web sites for free and through paid placements;
• How to get free “organic” traffic by building a site that pleases search engines and your visitors;
• How to efficiently purchase listings guaranteed to rank your company at the top of search engine results; (more…)
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…a close second was getting hired by a company to do “In-House Search Engine Marketing.”

When asked “Where did you get your start in the Search Marketing industry?” by SEOMoz.org in their The SEO Industry Survey conducted in February of this year (2008) and published in April, most Search Engine Marketers said they started off by working on “Personal projects/websites” (40.17%). (more…)

Born a natural Internet marketer, Jeremy “ShoeMoney” Schoemaker could be called a Search Engine Optimization expert, an Affiliate Marketing specialist or simply an innovative Developer who’s won numerous contests including eBay’s Star Developer Award. Pays2Bid, formerly known as AuctionAds (and a.k.a. Shopping Ads) has not only levitated ShoeMoney into the limelight, but has definitely kept eBay’s growth improving by extending out eBay’s auctions via ads on web sites like Adsense does for Google’s Adwords program. In 2007, MediaWhiz purchased Schomaker’s majority ownership in the advertising platform he created. (more…)

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The article was written back in January of 2008, but the relevance is still very, very key. Matt McGee writes the post titled “Why The SEO Industry Needs Small Business:”

“… a MediaPost article said print Yellow Pages “will continue to bleed dollars to their various digital counterparts” in 2008.

Last year, Yellowpages.com opened 11 new sales offices across the U.S. because of “dynamic growth and rising demand for more local search advertising products.” (more…)

While I haven’t used the tool specifically myself, there are plenty of reviews online to hopefully give you an idea if the tool is worth using or even trying. Please note, the reason why there may be a bunch of reviews out there is because WORDze does have an affiliate program which does give a commission to anyone subscribing it off of any of any link from these reviews. Note: I haven’t signed up for the affiliate commission program (yet).  Actually, it doesn’t make sense that I do since I’m sending you all off to these sites to read about WORDze for your own convenience. 

WordZe Evaluation Roundup: (more…)

A little older of a Public Relations release, but SEMPO publicized this in March.  Some of their top level notes were:

• The North American SEM industry grew from $9.4 billion in 2006 to $12.2 billion in 2007, exceeding earlier projections of $11.5 billion for 2007. (more…)
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Topics include: Robots.txt documentation, User feedback, IP delivery/geolocation/cloaking, Nofollow documentation, and a Better definition for doorway pages.

For more, visit Matt Cutt’s blog here.

p.s. Matt Please don’t ban me from Google for the stupid title.

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Quotes from the Forbes.com article:

“Last January, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched a search engine called Wikia Search, a purported “Google-killer” that aimed to edit and refine search results with the same methods that have made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon…Since then, six months have passed, and Google…surprise, surprise–has yet to be killed. Web analytics company Hitwise reports that Wikia Search’s traffic is still too small to measure.” (more…)

Andrea Harris of Search Engine Land writes a post about “Getting the Most of a Search Marketing Conference” as a precursor to SMX Advanced in Seattle recently.  She points out before the conference, you should:

• Specific search questions or problems to resolve
• Better ways to do certain search tasks
• New search marketing initiatives that could benefit my company
• Search topics that I want to learn more about (more…)
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