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SEO – The Creative Approach

06/04/2009

By: Serena Hillman
SerenaSafeMode.com*

Beyond the forums and keyword-stuffed SEO websites, lies unprecedented amounts of good information about SEO. Quality resources such as BruceClay.com or Intrapromote’s blog SEO Speedwagon can provide any company with enough information on SEO to achieve relatively decent success. But why do they just give this information away? As my boss would say: “It’s a Trojan horse–and not of the virus kind.” These companies are giving you a gift–like a Trojan horse–to educate you on how much you need them–or infiltrate your defenses.

After learning SEO basics, companies tend to realize two things:
1) How much control they could really have over SERPS and the potential behind them;
2) Speaking to a real person to help with the implementation along with the ability to answer specific questions, is priceless.

Going from SEO concepts to reality is an art and the more experience you have the easier it is to get your creative juices flowing. The question is not only what should we do, but how should we do it. The main key to a strong SEO strategy is how you utilize your assets, your industry’s assets and your market’s assets, to create a mass cornucopia of links.

Trojan Horse 2.0

Trojan Horse 2.0

*Serena has been involved within the web industry since 2001 and specializes in Organic Search. She is currently employed as the Director of Marketing and Web Development for ShowTimeTickets.com. Prior to Serena’s career she earned her Bachelors and Masters Degree in Interactive Communications from Quinnipiac University.

The Complete Internet Marketing Glossary

06/30/2009

By: Serena Hillman
SerenaSafeMode.com*

A quick reading recommendation for SEObook.com’s SEO Glossary:

The Glossary is a well-put together resource page, highly detailed and probably the most extensive list I have seen, totally worth the 30 minutes or so it takes to review.

The Glossary especially works wonders for aging-typewriter-era-bosses, programmers and anyone I mentioned in this post, to help communicate with internet marketing professionals or just to freshen up on some verbiage.

Check out the Glossary.

Need more info? Here are more resources:

acronyms
Rocking comic from http://www.my25percent.com/.

*Serena has been involved within the web industry for 6 years and specializes in Organic Search. She is currently employed as the Director of Marketing and Web Development for ShowTimeTickets.com. Prior to Serena’s career she earned her Bachelors and Masters Degree in Interactive Communications from Quinnipiac University.

The Complete Internet Marketing Glossary

06/30/2009

By: Serena Hillman
SerenaSafeMode.com*

A quick reading recommendation for SEObook.com’s SEO Glossary:

The Glossary is a well-put together resource page, highly detailed and probably the most extensive list I have seen, totally worth the 30 minutes or so it takes to review.

The Glossary especially works wonders for aging-typewriter-era-bosses, programmers and anyone I mentioned in this post, to help communicate with internet marketing professionals or just to freshen up on some verbiage.

Check out the Glossary.

Need more info? Here are more resources:

acronyms
Rocking comic from http://www.my25percent.com/.

*Serena has been involved within the web industry for 6 years and specializes in Organic Search. She is currently employed as the Director of Marketing and Web Development for ShowTimeTickets.com. Prior to Serena’s career she earned her Bachelors and Masters Degree in Interactive Communications from Quinnipiac University.

Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2009

08/11/2009

By: Serena Hillman

I am about to board my flight to San Jose to attend SES’s San Jose Conference 2009. Check out my updates of the daily events at http://www.iimaonline.org/resources/blogs/.

Day 2 agenda:
http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/sanjose/agenda-day2.php

Day 3 agenda:
http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/sanjose/agenda-day3.php

Feel free to shoot me a quick email (serena_hillman[at]hotmail[dot]com) if you want me attend and report on any particular session and I will try the best I can!

*Serena has been involved within the web industry for 6 years and specializes in Organic Search. She is currently employed as the Director of Marketing and Web Development for ShowTimeTickets.com. Prior to Serena’s career she earned her Bachelors and Masters Degree in Interactive Communications from Quinnipiac University.

Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2009

08/11/2009

By: Serena Hillman

I am about to board my flight to San Jose to attend SES’s San Jose Conference 2009. Check out my updates of the daily events at http://www.iimaonline.org/resources/blogs/.

Day 2 agenda:
http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/sanjose/agenda-day2.php

Day 3 agenda:
http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/sanjose/agenda-day3.php

Feel free to shoot me a quick email (serena_hillman[at]hotmail[dot]com) if you want me attend and report on any particular session and I will try the best I can!

*Serena has been involved within the web industry for 6 years and specializes in Organic Search. She is currently employed as the Director of Marketing and Web Development for ShowTimeTickets.com. Prior to Serena’s career she earned her Bachelors and Masters Degree in Interactive Communications from Quinnipiac University.

SES San Jose Review: Overview of Day 2

08/12/2009

Let me start off by thanking the staff at SES San Jose 2009 for inviting me to cover the event. This was my second time I have attended the conference in San Jose and highly recommend it for anyone looking for an industry leading approach to learning or advancing their skills in internet marketing. For those of you not familiar with the 3 day conference here is some general info: http://www.searchenginestrategies.com

I have broken each session review into separate blog posts for better flow:

Day 2 Highlights:

  • Marty Weintraub’s energetic presentation
  • Domino Pizza’s website (when I ordered my dinner)
  • Zappos’ Brian Kalma’s specific examples of their Social Media Campaign

Day 2 Letdowns:

  • The overcapacity room for the session: Google Analytics & Website Optimizer: Secrets Revealed!
  • Lunch (overcooked hot dogs)
  • Paying for internet at the Hilton
Keynote: Nicholas Fox, Google

Keynote: Nicholas Fox, Google

SES San Jose Review: Overview of Day 2

08/12/2009

Let me start off by thanking the staff at SES San Jose 2009 for inviting me to cover the event. This was my second time I have attended the conference in San Jose and highly recommend it for anyone looking for an industry leading approach to learning or advancing their skills in internet marketing. For those of you not familiar with the 3 day conference here is some general info: http://www.searchenginestrategies.com

I have broken each session review into separate blog posts for better flow:

Day 2 Highlights:

  • Marty Weintraub’s energetic presentation
  • Domino Pizza’s website (when I ordered my dinner)
  • Zappos’ Brian Kalma’s specific examples of their Social Media Campaign

Day 2 Letdowns:

  • The overcapacity room for the session: Google Analytics & Website Optimizer: Secrets Revealed!
  • Lunch (overcooked hot dogs)
  • Paying for internet at the Hilton
Keynote: Nicholas Fox, Google

Keynote: Nicholas Fox, Google

Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues

08/12/2009

SES San Jose 2009 Review:
Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues Session

By: Serena Hillman

The Google Booth

The Google Booth

After a good sleep at the Hilton San Jose, I wandered to the registration booth, got my Press Badge, and was on my way to the first session: Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues

This panel had representation from all three main search engines: Bing, Google and Yahoo. But surprisingly the best presentations were by the two non-search engine representatives: Shari Thurow, Founder & SEO director of Omni Marketing Interactive and Marty Weintraub, President of aimChair.

Shari covered a lot of ground and provided great information about why you want to get rid of duplicates and technically what qualifies as duplicate content. She mentioned some testing her company has been doing regarding navigational usability. Continue…

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