Google to Hold Live Webmaster Chat

Info off of Search Engine Land:
The Google Webmaster Central blog announced the first new live chat event in over a year. This event is named the “Holiday Webmaster Webinar” and takes place a week from Friday, November 13th at 10:00 am, Pacific Standard Time (GMT -08:00, San Francisco). Again, this is the first one since [...]

Google Sidewiki – Death to Static Webpages

Awesome! Now anyone using the Google Toolbar can leave comments for others to see about your webpages through Google Sidewiki.
Luckily you can (through Google Webmaster Tools) create a webmaster entry that will appear on top, but this is a challenging new feature for anyone (like me) who is trying to get a handle on existing [...]

Google Insights for Search

Another tool to add to your keyword research tool belt. Google’s Insights for Search tool lets you:

Look at a portion of keyword search results – by location, category, or Google vertical (news, images)

a graph with the search volume, indicating interest over time (GMT) for your terms, plotted on a scale from 0 to 100; the [...]

Online Marketing Best Practices from the Obama Campaign

M+R Strategic Services just released a report outlining the strategies and best practices from the Obama new media campaign and how those practices should be applied to nonprofits and their online marketing and fundraising efforts. It’s a great read. Here’s the lead in paragraph:
The best news for nonprofits? The most successful new media strategies for [...]

Searches up in Facebook, Down in Google Last Month

Fascinating and tied to the recent Wired article about the growth of the walled off Facebook network. Here’s the full article listing how total search queries grew in Facebook, but drop in Google.

Google Changes Policy on Javascript

Google has changed its policy on javascript & can now crawl javascript links.
Unveiled at SMX Advanced and explained by Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land, I felt it was important to share:
… Google’s new handling of JavaScript’s “onClick” function. To fully understand it, read Vanessa Fox’s in-depth report from last week, Google I/O: New Advances [...]

PPC influencing your SEO work?

Had to share an interesting article about how Google’s new ability to crawl javascript is resulting in unintended consequences.

Social Media and Local Search Training for Leadership Alexandria

I had a great time this morning leading a training session for Leadership Alexandria’s alumnus related to online marketing, local search and social media for non-profits and businesses.
Here’s the online marketing presentation from today’s training.

Search Marketers that like to Rap

I’ve noticed a trend of search folks who like to rap and figured I would start a collection. Let me know if you find other funny/dorky SEM raps.
GAAC Rap
Here’s Paul Chastain from Just1 a Google Analytics Authorized Consulting company out of Idaho.

And of course the PPC Rap song from PopLabs
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How we scan search results

It’s mornings like this that I feel 100% connected to my Hampshire College undergrad education. Back in 1994, the “build a website class” on my schedule was in the same department as the cognitive science folks who were focused on how the brain understands and comprehends the world around it.
I think doing online marketing without [...]