SEO/SEM News

In any business, being popular helps if you are popular for the right reasons. Generally anything positive about yourself can help boost your business, or your credibility in your own field of study that can help you in your current employment, or getting a new job. But unfortunately, after the You & A portion of Matt Cutts at SMX Advanced, looks like the opposite was coming out If you are a popular SEO.

Michael Gray and Rae Hoffman have been talking about Google being unfair in profiling SEOs, where links are devaluated simply because they are the works of SEO people even if the intent was purely clean and done in a whitehat method. But if they were not by SEO people, no devaluation is received even if the methods look going against Google Webmaster Guidelines. Rand Fishkin sums it all up with some tips on going SEO stealth mode and flying below the radar.

I have always thought getting popular in this industry was advantageous and has tried my simple humble ways to get there and hopefully rubbed elbows with the industries top SEOs. And now this makes me want to think again… I’ll rewind my myself and reset my thinking back to 1999… *rewinding…ok reset done* What was I talking about? SEO? Actually, I don’t know about SEO. What is SEO? I’m a Web Designer/Developer and I do not care about SEO. I’ll leave that to the SEO people.

Shawn Rorick is the Director of Marketing of Cirque de Soleil, RSD. Totally un familiar who he was, thinking because it was my first Pubcon, as he continued to talk, I think I was not alone. It seems he is a Pubcon veteran but was a first time keynote speaker. Although it was his first time, I must say he did a good job.

He basically compared oldschool marketing and current day Internet marketing. …continue reading

Introductions are not meant to be long, and so was Brett Tabke’s conference introduction to Pubcon 2008. It was not long but not too short either. With the ongoing economic condition, Brett shared his concerns on how much people will attend the conference as many companies have been saving a lot Brett has express his delight in seeing more than 1,000 attendees to this conference.

For a quick showing of hands, he asked how many people has seen a decrease in sales and how many has seen an increase in 2008. …continue reading