Lots of people are interested in doing video and making it a core part of their sites. People understand the value of video but are unsure how to make money from it. Vegas does get chilly. The economy has definitely hit Sin City hard. The Strip was barely half-full Some people liked the idea of Comm...

Two of my fellow co-workers and I attended PubCon last week in Las Vegas, NY. It was my first time at PubCon, and my first trip to Las Vegas. The Conference: PubCon was a good time. It was set up to have several tracks you could attend so people of all levels and backgrounds (SEO, PPC, Webmasters, O...

I've got two favorite couples in this industry, Dave & Irma Wallace of SearchRank and Bill & Motoko Hunt.  Bill is 'the guy' at Global Strategies, and Motoko has her own Japanese Search Marketing Firm.  I caught them hanging out at the Zappos party at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas, dur...

Hello, my name is Chris Phillips and this is my first post on Search Marketing Gurus. I work at Razorfish (Philadelphia Office) as an SEO Analyst (Click on my name to read more about me). Pre-Gaming for PubCon I am really looking forward to going to Las Vegas for the first time, and attending PubCon...

Have you considered developing content specifically to drive traffic from social media sites? Have you also considered what you want from that social media traffic, and what to do with it once you have it? In a session titled, “Earning Big Bucks with Social Media Traffic“, Social Media M...

They don’t talk about butterflies, candy ass theories and granola bars here. You get the impression that these alt.news used-to-be geeks are delightfully modest, after systematically bringing the known marketing-universe to its knees over the last 10 years. Having sprung forth from IRC, NewsGr...

As is tradition at Online Marketing Blog, we take quite a few photos at conferences. I’ve never come back from an event thinking that I took too many.  Here are a few photos from day one of the WebmasterWorld Pubcon conference in Las Vegas, which for me, was interrupted by a trip over to the ...

You may or may not be using social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, or Digg in your business. The overarching theme from this panel at PubCon was… why not, what do you have to lose? Social media gurus, including Warren Whitlock, Co-Author of The Twitter Revolution, Brian Carter, Director of ...

Building and designing a successful social media campaign can be a lot like designing and building a skyscraper. You need to research the materials, lay a strong foundation, and continue regular maintenance to ensure your building, or social media promotion, doesn’t collapse. In Understanding the ...

Last week I attended the Search Engine Strategies conference here in Chicago (I'm local to the area... about 1.5 hours west of the city), and while my colleagues Brian and Li have already published a taste of what the conference had to offer (with their session notes and interviews), I figured now i...