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Keynote – A Key Role For The Search Professional: Company Insight Wizard – #SMXLondon

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SMX London 2013 was opened by Jim Sterne who focused on a key role for the search professional as a company insight wizard.

He started by explaining the role of the company insight wizard. The focus needs to be on moving the company forward and not specific tactics. Search professionals have their hands on the numbers and you can use this to be a great analyst. (more…)

Guess who and win a ticket to SMX London

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Here is your chance to win a last minute ticket to SMX London for both days! Guess which two search celebrities are on this picture and you might be the winner of the ticket.

We will be drawing a winner early tomorrow morning and the winner will be announced on this blog post, our Facebook page and our Google+ page.

For your chance to win, please  leave a comment with your answer on this post or head on over to our Facebook or G+ Page and comment there!

Good luck!!

Take a Guess….

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The Answer is….

Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan!

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AND THE WINNER IS:

The winner of the SMX London ticket is James Finlayson. See you there tomorrow!

James

SMX Munich April 2013 Write Up – #smxmunich

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This is a guest post by Irina Hey, Online Marketing and Communications for OnPage.org full bio below)

SMX Munich took place at the Hilton München Park Hotel on 9./10. of April this year. The conference is well-known with professional Online Marketers worldwide. Main topics of the event are search engine optimization, PPC Marketing, Content Marketing and many more. Great speakers from Germany and all over the world are presenting news about the latest strategies in search marketing.

This year the host Rising Media Ltd invited many experts from the US, Great Britain and the Netherlands to share their experiences and strategies with conference attendees. There were many speakers across the day including:

  • Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Land)
  • Wil Reynolds (SEER Interaction)
  • Laura Lippey (SEOGadgets)
  • Curt Simon Harlinghausen (AKOM360 Multi Channel Marketing)
  • John Mueller (Google Inc.)
  • Marcus Tandler (Tandler.Doerje.Partner),

The SMX conference in Munich is the biggest search conference in Europe and is aimed at search marketers, regardless if they are experts or beginners. SMX is set to satisfy every attendee who wants to be inspired by new topics or share their experiences with other marketers. Two full days of information, communication and networking were definitely in the forefront.

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A Photo Is Worth A Thousand Links: SMX West

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In San Jose the last few days SMX West took place. Gemma Birch is there and reports back on some of the sessions for State of Search.

The phenomenal rise of Pinterest has confirmed that images are more popular and important than ever before. This final session of the day looked at how we can better use images across our online marketing efforts.. (more…)

Content Isn’t Just King, It’s Also Queen and Ace #SMXWest

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In San Jose the last few days SMX West took place. Gemma Birch is there and reports back on some of the sessions for State of Search.

Unsurprisingly, content features heavily on the SMX agenda. The 3 speakers on the panel shared some tips for planning and developing effective, quality content, as well as re-purposing content you already have. (more…)

Going Viral on YouTube #SMXWest

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In San Jose the last few days SMX West took place. Gemma Birch is there and reports back on some of the sessions for State of Search.

The first session of day 3 of SMX West was all about how to get your videos shared and viewed on YouTube. The speakers were Jake Larsen of ZAGG, Steve Young from SmartShoot and Jonah Stein of ItstheROI and each had some key takeaways. (more…)

Vic Gundrota talks Google+ and More at #SMX

Last week SMX was not about Search, but about Social. One of the highlights was a talk between Vic Gundotra, the Senior VP of Engineering for Google+, and Searchengineland Editor-in-Chief, Danny Sullivan. You can find the entire talk here:

Social Media Marketing Conference 2012 – Day 1 Morning Sessions #smx

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Held in the Aria Resort & Casino Convention Center in Las Vegas, the SMX Social Media Marketing Conference is a two day conference in the SMX Series.

Hosted by Danny Sullivan, the SMM is a smaller gathering than the usual SMX but still packed with great content, speakers and case studies.

Here is a breakdown of the sessions I attended on Day 1 (more…)

Search, Stockholm and SMX Fun – An Overview of 2012 SMX Stockholm

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New job. New conference adventures. More search education. More Avios BA points.

This was the first time I had gone to a non UK / US search conference and overall my three days in Stockholm was highly enjoyable.

A good mixture of European based search practioneers attended the fifth edition of SMX Stockholm with around 100 folks in all at the Munchen Brewery.

In terms of my main highlights from the two days of talks, I particularly enjoyed the insight from Jon Quinton from SEO Gadget. His talk focused on Linkbuilding Do’s and Don’ts.

As ever the questions about Penguin update quickly rose as Jon asked the audience “Has anyone had a site hit by Penguin? ….(silence)…ok I’ll rephrase that – anyone know a friend who has had a site hit by Penguin? :)

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