Bas and Roy were joined by State of Search blogger Sam Crocker who recently switched jobs, going from Distilled to OMD.
The boys discussed the changing SERPS in Google. Google is more and more trying to push their own results, trying to keep them on the Google pages, not everybody is happy with that. Local is playing a bigger role and more spammy results show up.
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Bas and Roy were joined by Dennis Goedegebuure, Dutchman in San Francisco working as SEO for eBay. The discussion varied from the use of Flipboard, the arrest of the cyber bully, the bouncing of the Groupon deal and Google going social.
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Bas and Roy were joined by Peter Young, a UK SEO who is also blogger for State of Search and a regular guest on the show. They discussed several different topics from the news in the past few days. Google which might be buying Groupon, how Google is maybe ‘evil’ and is being investigated by the EU, reviews and much more.
Also Bas told about the Dutch artist VanVelzen who “gets” social marketing and Peter spoke about his post “Search and social: A match made in heaven?”
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It’s Tuesday again, which means that there is another live State of Search radioshow today! Bas and Roy will today be joined by our fellow blogger Peter Young, author of the post “Search and social: A match made in heaven?” yesterday, a post which will surely be talked about on the show.
In the show tonight, which will be aired live on webmasterradio.fm (8pm European time, which is 7 in the UK, and in the US it’s at 2pm on the East Coast and 11am on the West Coast, join us in the chat room!), we will be discussing several different topics again.
One of the topics we’ll discuss without a doubt is the rumor that Google is buying Groupon. As you may have noticed this has been discussed on many different blogs already. And yes, we will give our take on it. But before we do that and because of the huge amount of discussion already taking place we’d like to get YOUR opinion on this deal.
So therefore today our discussion topic is:
This show Bas and Roy dedicated their entire show to one tool: Raven Tools. As guests on the show there were Jon Henshaw, Co-Founder & Product Manager of Raven Tools and Taylor Pratt, the Product Marketing Manager.
Off course all the elements of Raven Tools came by: what does the tool do, what does the future look like for Raven Tools and websites in general and much more. A very informative show on the tool and everything surrounding monitoring. Worth the listen!
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There are many many many tools out there to use to optimize your online strategy. Analytic -tools, monitoring tools, buzz-tools, all sorts of different tools. Some of them very good, others crap.
Tomorrow on a new State of Search radioshow we are going to talk about one of these tools: Raven Tools. As guests on the show we have Jon Henshaw, Co-Founder & Product Manager of Raven Tools and Taylor Pratt, the Product Marketing Manager.
In the show tomorrow, which will be aired live on webmasterradio.fm (8pm European time, which is 7 in the UK, and in the US it’s at 2pm on the East Coast and 11am on the West Coast, join us in the chat room!), we will be discussing Raven Tools. We will off course be talking about their product and how to use it.
There is off course the opportunity to ask questions or put in statements in the chat room, but we want to start the discussion early here, but as we did last week with Stephen we’d like to open the discussion already today by getting questions and statements from you!
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An entire show dedicated to conversion optimization, a topic which deserves much more attention than just one show to be honest. But the show Bas and Roy did with Stephen Pavlovich is one to download and store on your computer for later reference. With conversion expert Stephen they got into the details of the trade. After the show had been kicked of with a discussion online a day earlier the talk went flying on from the start with many different parts of conversion optimization adressed.
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Tomorrow on the State of Search radioshow Bas and Roy will have Stephen Pavlovich as their guest on the show. Stephen Pavlovich is one of Europe’s most respected conversion experts around. He started his company Conversion Factory in 2007 and has since been very successful. To see what he is all up to check his blog on his own site and he recently wrote a great post on conversion optimization over at SEOMoz: The Definitive How-To Guide For Conversion Rate Optimization. We also interviewed him this summer!
In the show tomorrow, which will be aired live on webmasterradio.fm (8pm European time, which is 7 in the UK, and in the US it’s at 2pm on the East Coast and 11am on the West Coast, join us in the chat room!), we will adress the topic of conversion optimization.
There is off course the opportunity to ask questions or put in statements in the chat room, but we want to start the discussion early here today already by opening up the floor for your opinions and questions. We will do that by putting in a statement:
Bas and Roy were joined by Dixon Jones, live from the speakers room at Pubcon. Dixon talked a little about Pubcon and explained where Majestic is going and how he figured he had unmasked Pagerank. Other topics discussed were off course the launch of Google Instant Previews and the launch of Blekko.
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This week Nichola Stott joined Bas and Roy on the show. She recently worked for Liverpool FC, which was discussed shortly on the show. The selling of Hyves was discussed by Bas and Roy after which Bas, Roy and Nichola dove into the reasons why Google changed their Places Search. Also different events around Europe from last week were discussed.
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As you might know every Tuesday State of Search broadcasts their very own radioshow on Webmasterradio. Every week Bas and Roy discuss the latest on what is going on in the world of search and social.
Tonight the show airs again. BUT tonight the show is not on the air at the regular hour. Usually you can listen live at 8pm every Tuesday CET, which is 7 in the UK, and in the US it’s at 2pm on the East Coast and 11am on the West Coast. But because somebody decided that the US and Europe would not change their daylight savings time at the same time, the show this week is ONE HOUR EARLIER IN EUROPE.
The show now airs 7PM CET / 6PM UK. So when you are still in the office at 6, be sure to tune in and listen to the show!
On the show today we have Nichola Stott, one of our bloggers, on as a guest. With Nichola we discuss the different events which went on last week, working for Liverpool FC and off course we talk about the changes Google made to Places. Follow the discussion on that topic here.
Speaking of the radioshow, you can listen back all the past episodes on our special radio page here on State of Search, but you can now also listen to them through Facebook! We updated our Facebook page and added the shows there.
Bas and Roy were joined this week by the likes of State of Search blogger Peter Young. He ran into some issues on his personal blog last week when a poll he organized got spammed. Peter explained what happened and how the spammers were not too smart.
The talk evolved to what an influential SEO actually is and about the news that Google Instant was actually making the advertisers money.
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