Monthly Archives: August 2009

Search Engine Strategies Keynote: Charlene Li on How to Prepare for the Future of Search

This post summarizes points from Charlene Li’s keynote at the Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2009 conference, with live coverage by Barry Schwartz of the Search Engine Roundtable and Gaurav Sharma of Think Mantra. Li, co-author of Groundswell, calls for search marketers to put people, not keywords, at the center of search strategy, where relevancy is increasingly the goal, and where the social graph (aka our respective social networks) are integrated with search intent. Continue reading

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Marketing Profs Summer Social Series: Charlene Li on the Art of Social Media

This post notes key points from the kick-off seminar in MarketingProfs’ Social Media Summer Series (an eight-part series of webinars which ran through Sept. 2009), where Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, calls for online marketers to focus on relationships, not technologies. Topics include examples of companies using social media, key steps for using social media, and tips for mapping goals to strategies. Continue reading

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What I Did Over Summer Vacation: PodCamp Boston 4

This post describes a first-timers eperiences at PodCamp Boston 4, including general impressions on the unconference approach as well as scheduled sessions. Also provides links to various resources on podcasting and reflections on the democratization of media. Continue reading

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Links of Note, July 2009: SEO and Search Engine Marketing ~ Google's No Follow Change

Here are SEO and Search Engine Marketing links of note I recently compiled, which rocked the advanced SEO world back in June, related to how Google assigns PageRank within your site and its current recommendation against using the rel=nofollow attribute for page … Continue reading

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Links of Note, July 2009: SEO and Search Marketing (Microsoft/Yahoo Merger)

  Here are links of note, which I compiled this past July from my Twitter stream, on SEO and search engine marketing. Link categories for this post include SEO & PPC Budgets, the Microsoft/Yahoo Search Deal, General Search Engines News, … Continue reading

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