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“I was looking at the black and white world…” Elvis Costello

I don’t know too much about Doug other than from his frequently critical blog comments where he shares his own fervent white hat evangelism. I think many in the SEO Community, especially the newer members, dismiss Doug out of hand…those that have been around long enough to remember when he was one of the better known people in the industry are more likely to pay attention and acknowledge his ideas without taking his criticisms too much to heart.

Last year this session was one of my favorites at the conference, and this year really was no exception.

Each of the presenters did an excellent job, but a lot of controversy seemed to be generated at each person’s interpretation of what was appropriate to offer the crowd.

So, it looks like the Sonics are moving to Oklahoma City . Fortunately, Bennett agreed to leave Seattle the “Sonics” moniker in case Seattle can either get an expansion team or another team to relocate to Seattle . Bennett claims that the team doesn’t have a name yet. If that’s true, his group made a serious mistake…far more damaging than the “smoking gun” emails that came out during the court proceedings.

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I had a nice chat with Matt Cutts at SMX Advanced. Not only is he a great guy but he is incredibly accessible for a person who has such a strong position of importance in our industry. I’m totally convinced that Matt would spend as much time with a search newbie as he would with a SEO “A” lister and if you happen to see Matt at a conference, don’t feel bashful in going up and introducing yourself.

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As if you really needed another reason to be a member of SEMpdx, our friends at Webmaster World have given you one anyway… Now, all SEMpdx members will get a discount on their admission to Pubcon 2008, taking place in Vegas (baby), November 11th to 14th, 2008!

To get full details of the discount, and see ALL of the SEMpdx member discount opportunities, visit the SEMpdx member discount page.

Aaron was one of the best presenters at Searchfest 2008 and I had a great conversation with him at dinner following the show. Aaron will be bringing the Online Marketing Summit on the road this summer with a stop in Portland on August 5th. He agreed to answer my questions about the event as well as about search marketing in general.

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SMX Advanced in Seattle was held June 3rd and 4th, and just like last year, I thought it was an excellent show.

Even though I took copious notes, rather than recap all the sessions, which has already been done so well by many others, I thought I would blog about only the newest information I learned.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 10, 2008 — Sitening’s Anastasia Holdren will conduct two AdWords™ training seminars supported by Google, Inc., in Portland, Ore. The seminars will be held June 25 and 26 at Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center Portland-Lloyd Center [http://www.doubletreeportlandgreen.com/ ].

Nearly every SEMpdx board member sent a rep to SMX Advanced in Seattle last week. We also spotted a lot of our friends there. Most of us wrote at least one blog post covering the sessions attended, impressions etc. Here are a few of those links:

SMX Advanced 2008 Coverage from SEMpdx

• Amplify Interactive: SMX Advanced Seattle 2008 (links to multiple posts)
• EngineWorks: Value of Creating Value at SMX Advanced

After being alerted about a paragraph in Yahoo’s new Terms and Conditions by my colleague Kent Lewis, I was in disbelief at what I was reading. Surely it was some kind of mistake, or they had not worded their intentions very well.

I couldn’t imagine they would actually think it would be OK to edit their advertisers campaigns without their approval and then only make an “effort” to reverse the changes if advertisers noticed and requested a reversal in writing. But it is actually true.

SEMpdx has teamed up with ConferencePlus to bring you ” Measuring Engagement on the Internet “, featuring Eric T. Peterson, founder of the Portland, Oregon strategic consulting group Web Analytics Demystified, Inc.

Thursday June 26, 2008
11:00 AM Pacific Time

Topic Description:

Engagement is a hot topic in 2008 — everyone wants it. Advertisers want to find engaged audiences to advertise to, sites want engaged visitors to interact with, and brands want engaged brand champions to help spread their message. But what is engagement online and how is it defined?

“And I’ve seen it all, I’ve seen it all…Through the yellow windows of the evening train…” Tom Waits, 9th & Hennepin

In the Tom Waits song “9th & Hennepin”, the narrator looks out the window from his train seat and creates his own story from the images that he is seeing. His story is unique to him because though others might see the exact same scene, they will process the information differently and come up with their own unique portrait. However, Waits defines his landscape very starkly “…And the steam comes out of the grill like the whole goddamn town’s ready to blow…” that should slant each viewer’s perspective of the scene towards painting a picture of despair instead one of hope.

When Todd Mintz finally convinced me to join Twitter at last month’s SEMpdx event, I’ll admit: I still wasn’t fully convinced. I’d been to enough search conferences in the last two years to hear @dannysullivan (for the uninitiated, the @ symbol means even Danny’s now on Twitter, too) bash Twits’ pithy burps of “content” more than once. But, I decided, what the hell, I’ll use it for a few weeks & give up on it, just like I did with Instant Messenger after my freshman year of college.

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Idea for the Pyramid taken from John Wooden’s “Pyramid For Success”

The Foundation (bottom row of pyramid): about you & your company.

Commitment: Your team must be fully engaged and devoted to executing your plan. CEO needs to buy into SEO plan as well as Marketing & PR.

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