I went to a meetup yesterday that was on the topic of Internet Marketing / SEO / SEM. I'm hoping to figure out a way to spark a meet-up around SEO / SEM in Santa Monica / West Los Angeles / South Ba The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using. Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering.

Tony Adam , Yahoo’s SEO Manager , is responsible for helping the company optimize so it could get more search engine traffic. Wrong: Click here to listen to a related SEO interview with Wil Fernandez. Right: Listen to my related SEO interview with Wil Fernandez. As one of the biggest content creators on the net, Yahoo wants to rank high in Google and other search engines. In our interview, he gave me some basic search engine optimization tips that anyone could use, including:

For example, there might be a series of flows in how users come into the site, starting with ads, SEO, or otherwise. If you liked this blog post, please recommend it to a colleague and/or click here to get updates via email or RSS . Written by Andrew Chen September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am Posted in Uncategorized « Open mobile platforms and Facebook developer refugees Virtual Goods Summit 2008 + last week’s Twitter links » Add New Comment

As a follow-up to my last post on Meetups SEO / SEM , I was just booted from the group and any of my comments about issues I had with the way the group was handled along with my negative vote about the event were deleted from the group. It makes me wonder if Meetup is actually encouraging this kind of thin

Thank you Tony Adam the SEO maven for helping me get this interview!) “Right click” to download the FULL intervie I asked Brent Csutoras to teach us how to grow our site’s traffic by using sites like Digg, Delicious and Reddit because he’s a marketing consultant who specializes social media. Download the interview to learn directly from Brent.

free) search engine optimization (SEO) content targeting. While the economy in 2009 looks challenging for most companies, the outlook of marketing executives is rather bright and upbeat. Deborah Kania and her team at Brightworks Interactive have just released results of their survey of marketing executives' plans for 2009. The survey covered both B-to-B and B-to-C companies,

Likewise, you can spend engineering resources to make sure you rank well in search engines with SEO, or you can create value for your users/customers by allowing them to poll you presence with a social media strategy like blogging, Twitter, curated bookmarks, teaching them like Brian Clark at Copyblogger , or helping them kick ass like Kathy Sierra , until they are compelled to become a paying customer. The odd thing is that SEOs see SMO as an SEO strategy, and SMOs see SEO as a dying strategy. You can spend engineering resources on fighting spam like Matt Cutts and team, or you could spend talent resources on writing and curtaining content like Jason Calacanis , Jimmy Wales , and passionate bloggers.

Let’s face it: social media strategy is going to cannibalize black hat and some current white hat SEO strategy. Social media strategy is the new way to do SEO (figure out how to give value to your client’s web strategy). Right now, there are a bunch of SEOs listening to what Danny Sullivan has to say about social media strategy because they trust him. ( Sphinn this ) Search Search engines react to behavior of its users and site owners.

Let’s face it: social media strategy is going to canalize black hat and some current white hat SEO strategy. Social media strategy is the new way to do SEO (figure out how to give value to your client’s web strategy). Right now, there are a bunch of SEOs listening to what Danny Sullivan has to say about social media strategy because they trust him. ( Sphinn this ) Search Search engines react to behavior of its users and site owners.

SEO unit. Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media, the new startup venture of former Userplane founder Michael Jones, said Tuesday that it has named Steve Schepke as General Manager of Tsavo Agency, a new unit focused on providing monetization services to content providers. According to Tsavo, Schepke joins Tsavo from Commission Junction.