Integrating search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) projects and teams is a best practice that can deliver a powerful Virtuous Cycle.  Built on the foundation of an analytics platform such as Coremetrics Continuous Optimization…

There’s a startling assumption buried as a throwaway comment on this post from TechCrunch on Google Buzz’s recent arrival. Apparently, links shared on social networks have been growing to the extent that the mighty Goog is concerned that this phenomenon could start taking eyeballs away from all those juicy paid search ads that keep the [...]

Google engineers talking openly about the latest challenges in indexing web content. Search marketers getting their heads around building promotions on Twitter.  Lunch networking sessions exploring obscure tips and tricks. This year’s San Jose SES had it all, with a glow-in-the-dark Google Dance to boot. Although SES hosts events around the globe, the San Jose [...]

There were many sessions at SES San Jose 2008 on getting more value from SEM traffic and improving the usability of SEM landing pages. Although not so well attended (being the last day of the conference), this session did contain many useful tips and tricks for landing page optimization. Moderator: Anna Maria Virzi, Executive Editor, [...]

If you have ever grappled with trying to create SEM strategies for companies with more than one business unit or how to sell in the value of SEM to upper management, then this session was for you! David Roth did a particularly good job of explaining how he created the current SEM strategy for Yahoo [...]