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Sri Sharma about targeting YouTube and Mobile

We are coming to you LIVE these two days from A4U Expo Munich 2011. You can follow the stream live on our special A4U page, sponsored by Linkdex.The interviews are also posted separately here on the website too.

Sri Sharma is somebody who is very smart and does very much. In this interview Sri hands us a lot of information, from how you optimize your YouTube ad targeting and Mobile. Worth a listen!

What’s the secret of Social Media Conversion Success? Here are 7

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The secret of success. That is a secret everybody wants to be in on. The Secret of Success in Social Media might be second in line. Is there a secret of success for Social Media Conversion? Unbounce thinks there is. They made this nice flowchart (infographic) showing no less than 7 secrets of Social Media Conversion. (more…)

A4U Expo: Christoph Cemper about links and Chris Johnson about affiliates

We are coming to you LIVE these two days from A4U Expo Munich 2011. You can follow the stream live on our special A4U page, sponsored by Linkdex.The interviews are also posted separately here on the website too.

Below you can find interviews with Christoph Cemper, linkbuilding specialists. He talks about the ‘new links’ in Social Media and how he sees things are changing. Chris Johnson is one of the organizers of

  • Social Marketing: From Offline to Universal (#a4uexpo presentation)
  • 6 killer presentations from #a4uexpo: Advanced Analytics, Information Architecture, Negative SEO & more
  • Launching an Affiliate Business on a ShoeString – A4U Expo London 2010
  • Microformat and Datafeed Optimisation – A4U Expo London 2010
  • Using Your Competitor’s Tactics to Gain a Competitive Edge – A4UExpo London 2010
  • but is also responsible for Affiliates4u.com. He gives us an insight into how the affiliates are doing and into how you can pitch for A4U.


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    Live interviews from A4UExpo: Kevin Gibbons, Dave Reynolds and Dixon Jones

    We are coming to you LIVE these next two days from A4U Expo Munich 2011. You can follow the stream live on our special A4U page, sponsored by Linkdex.

    Below you can find the two interviews we did this morning, the first one is with Kevin Gibbons and Dave Reynolds about SEO, affiliates and more. The second one is with Dixon Jones about links, the Panda Update and the re-birth of the old marketing.


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    The Tech Bubble in an infographic

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    This infographic has been posted on a few more sites, but I didn’t want to leave it out here. Companies like Linkedin and Facebook are overvalued while we are looking at them so it seems quite obvious we are currently in a tech bubble. Again. This infographic shows just how much. (more…)

    State of Search top 10 posts for May 2011

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    There is a lot of great content being published on State of Search. You might not ‘catch’ them all. So here is an overview of the best read posts which were published in May 2011.

    1. Google is Testing New Search Result Pages, Opinions on Twitter differ – by Bas van den Beld
    2. Osama Bin Laden killed: how did Google and Bing respond? – by Bas van den Beld
    3. Dutch researcher downloads 35 million Google Profiles – by Bas van den Beld
    4.The 10 commandments of Linkbuilding (infographic) – by Bas van den Beld
    5. The 5 Best SEO Books That Aren’t About SEO – by Barry Adams
    6. Retargeting: a blessing or a curse? – by Jeroen van Eck
    7. How Important Are Facebook Likes for Search? – by Marcus Taylor
    8. Agency Caught Trying to Blackmail Companies in Places- by Bas van den Beld
    9. How to Spend Your Online Marketing Budget – by Sam Crocker
    10. HTML 5 re-visited: What’s in it for SEOs? – by Bastian Grimm

    Follow our Twitteraccount and subscribe to our RSS Feed to stay up to date with all the latest articles on State of Search! (more…)

    EXCLUSIVE: Raventools to integrate Webmastertools

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    There used to be a time you had a tool for everything. These days are behind us. Many of the (search) tools we use are starting to give you the ‘full experience’. Do all the things you have to do around your website in one place. And why not. It is much easier to do everything within one surrounding than to have ten different places where you need to perform ten different tasks.

    Sources say that next week Raven Tools will announce that they have made another step in this direction: they are integrating Google Webmaster Tools into their own tool. You can then do many things you can do within GWT also within Raven Tools. (more…)