Every Tuesday at 8pm in Europe, 7 in the UK, in the US at 2pm on the East Coast and 11am on the West Coast, State of Search presents its very own radioshow on Webmasterradio.fm. Bas van den Beld and Roy Huiskes discuss what is going on in the world of search and talk to guests from all over the world.
You can listen to the show live and join the hosts in the chatroom to discuss what they are talking about and more! Weren’t you able to listen to the show live? No problem, you can find all the shows right here and off course, if you never want to miss out on any of the shows, subscribe to the show on iTunes. Be sure to also subscribe to our Twitter feed so you won’t miss out there either!
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Find all the past shows below:
State of Search radioshow – episode 23: SES SF recap and new Google products
Date:August 24 2010
Short summary:After a week without a show Bas and Roy returned to do another great show. They were joined by fellow blogger Bastian Grimm who covered SES San Francisco for State of Search. Bastian discussed the quality of SES San Francisco and gave some highlights of the show. They even got someone from the chatroom in the show to give his view on SES! After the break Bas, Roy and Bastian discussed Google live updating results, which Rob Ousbey discovered last week and the possibility of getting more results from one domain now Google has changed their algorithm on that.
Guest(s):Bas and Roy welcomed Bastian Grimm
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State of Search radioshow – episode 22: WordPress Plugins and Sunglasses Site Review
Date:August 10 2010
Short summary:With Bas away Roy was joined by Joost de Valk. they peruse through the search news headlines, including SEO Reputation and upcoming conferences, as well as some details on some new WordPress Plugins Joost has in the works.
Guest(s):Roy welcomed Joost de Valk (@yoast).
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State of Search radioshow – episode 21: SES SF preview, whats up with Q&As and Googles patent
Date:August 3 2010
Short summary:This week Bas and Roy welcomed back Matt McGowan to the show. Matt is responsible for Incisive Media’s U.S. operations in addition to overseeing all marketing, sales, editorial and operations for ClickZ.com, SearchEngineWatch.com, ClickZ Events and the international conference and exposition series Search Engine Strategies. He therefore can tell all about the SES Conferences. Bas, Roy and Matt discussed the upcoming SES San Francisco, which is held in two weeks, from August 16th to 20th. After Matt left Bas and Roy continued to discuss a Google patent, Ask, SEOs who don’t have a clue and more.
Guest(s):Bas and Roy welcomed back Matt McGowan
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State of Search radioshow – episode 20: Bing’s missing chances, Google analytics bombing and more
Date:July 27 2010
Short summary:A show this week where Bas and Roy touched different subjects of search and social. Roy’s brand new iPad was part of the discussion which went on to Bing issues: the Microsoft search engine is missing opportunities in Europe. Also questions from the chatroom, for example about what url to pick, were answered. Finally a flaw in Google Analytics was discussed, which gives those who have a bad karma the chance to ‘bomb’ someone they don’t like within Google Analytics.
Guest(s):No guests this week.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 19: Microsoft Social with Mel Carson (@melcarson)
Date:July 20 2010
Short summary:After a short holiday Bas returned to the show. Today Bas and Roy talked to Mel Carson who is “Community geezer for Microsoft Advertising”. Mel talked about what Microsoft is doing on the social front and online office and the guys discussed Twitter Earlybird, Times Paywall issues and much more.
Guest(s):Bas and Roy welcomed Mel Carson.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 18: News, Google confusing 301 redirects
Date:July 13 2010
Short summary:With Bas on holiday Roy was joined by Eduard Blacquière. They discussed 301 redirects which Google doesn’t seem to grab, Google News stuff and more.
Guest(s):Roy welcomed Eduard Blacquière.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 17: Twitter automation with @seoidiot Paul Madden
Date:June 29 2010
Short summary:Not a lot of search in this weeks show but a huge amount of information on automating Twitter and spam. Bas and Roy talked to Paul Madden, aka SEOidiot. Paul is an expert on automation and talked about how to automated, when to automate and the difference between automation and spam. The good and the bad were discussed where Paul gave useful tips on how to recognize spam accounts. A very interesting show to be listening to!
Guest(s):Bas and Roy welcomed Paul Madden.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 16: Optimizing for Universal Search with Tom Critchlow
Date:June 22 2010
Short summary:Roy returned this week and talked about some of his iPhone issues. Bas and Roy were also joined by Tom Critchlow, a UK SEO, with a speciality in optimizing for Universal Search. Tom is the head of SEO at Distilled in the UK and a well known speaker at international conferences. Tom, sometimes mistaken for his brother Will, talked about how to optimize the Universal Search elements Local, Video and images. A very informative show.
Guest(s):Bas and Roy welcomed Tom Critchlow.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 15: Microformats with Joost de Valk and Richard Baxter
Date:June 15 2010
Short summary:A very special State of Search radioshow this time. Bas received guests Joost de Valk and Richard Baxter to discuss the topic of microformats. Richard discussed this topic in his post yesterday. Next to the what and why different questions from both the chartroom and the website were answered. A very informative show with hands-on tips to use.
Guest(s):Bas welcomed Joost de Valk and Richard Baxter.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 14: Local ranking factors, Mobile, Snippets and Google suggest
Date:June 8 2010
Short summary:In this show Bas and Roy were joined by Sarah Carling, a UK SEO and also a blogger for SEO Chicks. Many different topics came by like an extensive research on local ranking factors, the new iPhone, the SEOMofo snippettool and Google suggest.
Guest(s):Bas and Roy welcomed Sarah Carling.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 13: Mayday for Google and a woman on the highway
Date:June 1 2010
Short summary:In this show Bas and Roy were joined by Nichola Stott, a UK SEO and blogger for both SEO Chicks and State of Search. They discussed the Mayday update which seems to affect mostly low quality sites, Nichola reviewed the tool Influence Finder and the possibility of Bing on the iPhone was discussed.
Guest(s):Bas and Roy welcomed Nichola Stott.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 12: SMX London, A4UMunich, Newspapers selling SEO and opt out Analytics
Date:May 25 2010
Short summary:A very special show this time around. Our guest Richard Baxter from SEO Gadget joined us to discuss amongst other things SMX Advanced London 2010. And Richard really did his homework. He asked several speakers at SMX to give their take away for the show. You can find the different take aways below.
Next to SMX London we also discussed A4UExpo, US Newspapers selling SEO and opting out of Google Analytics.
Guest(s):Bas and Roy welcomed Richard Baxter.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 11: How Small Business Entrepreneurs Can Benefit from Search
Date:May 18 2010
Short summary:Once again a show without Bas who was busy partying at A4UExpo in Munich at that time. But Roy nonetheless made a great show. He was joined by Entrepreneurial Merchandiser Richard Theuws who discussed how he uses a lot of niche sites to promote his products and what his standpoints are concerning search agencies and search consultants. How does the world of SEO look from out of the SEO scene.
Guest(s):Roy welcomed Richard Theuws on as a guest.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 10: Facebook, Google social, lamebook and more
Date:May 11 2010
Short summary:Bas and Roy did a great show this week with just the two of them. They discussed many different subjects from changing jobs to deleting your Facebook accounts.
Guest(s):Bas and Roy had no guests on this time.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 9: the local show
Date:May 4 2010
Short summary:This week the show, which was hosted by Roy in Bas’s holiday week, was all about local. Roy invited Dutch SEOs Arjan Snaterse and Martijn Beijk to discuss local matters.
Different topics concerning local were discussed: how do you set up your site for local, how does Google Places work, Monetization of Maps and much more.
Guest(s):Roy welcomed Arjan Snaterse and Martijn Beijk.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 8: Conversion, Facebook and Sascon
Date: April 27 2010
Short summary:Once again a very special show this week. As guest Roy welcomed Sander Tamaëla, SEO consultant at OnetoMarket and conversion specialist. Later in the show Bas joined in, straight from SASCON where he also grabbed a couple of speakers to give their opinions.
In the first part Roy and Sander discussed conversion optimization. After the first break Bas joined in. The SASCON conference was discussed and the subject turned to Facebook and privacy issues.
Guest(s):Bas and Roy welcomed Sander Tamaëla.
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State of Search radioshow – episode 7: Google Hiring Private Jets, privacy and Twitter
Date: April 20 2010
Short summary: This week the show was co-hosted by Lisa Myers who filled in for Roy Huiskes. As a guest on the show we welcomed Peter Young. Peter is Head of SEO at Mediavest in Manchester. He is also one of the organizers of Sascon, a new UK conference. He also writes for his own blog Holistic Search.
In the first part we discussed Peter’s work and the Sascon conference. After the first break different topics came by like Clickthrough Data In Webmaster Tools, Google Hiring Private Jets and Google privacy issues.
Guest(s): Bas and Roy welcomed Peter Young.
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Episode 6: State of Search radioshow – episode 6 – SEO Copywriting mythbusting
Date: April 13 2010
Short summary: This week the guest on the show is Dennis Goedegebuure. He is ‘a dutchman in San Jose’, working as SEO at E-Bay. In the first part we discussed the background an SEO needs. In the second part Roy and Dennis discussed some E-Bay and Marktplaats issues like the frames issue with Marktplaats and the way a big company works with media and external statements. Also Twitter Ads, sitespeed and more was discussed.
Guest(s): Bas and Roy welcomed Dennis Goedegebuure.
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Episode 5: State of Search radioshow – episode 5 – SEO Copywriting mythbusting
Date: April 6 2010
Short summary: The State of Search radioshow this week was one without regular host Roy Huiskes. But instead we got two Dutchmen, David Brinks (who ranks number one on the term SEO copywriting in the Netherlands) with a lot of knowledge of SEO copywriting. Both guys did a session at SES Amsterdam called “SEO copywriting: mythbusting & takeaways”.
Guest(s): Bas welcomed David Brinks and Ramon Eijkemans.
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Episode 4: State of Search radioshow – episode 4 – SMX, SES, privacy and Matt Cutts
Date: March 30 2010
Short summary: The State of Search radioshow this week was one in which we all returned from several conferences all over the world. As a guest we welcomed Evert Veldhuijzen, blogger on State of Search and speaker at SMX Munich last week. He discussed what happened at SMX Munich and several other topics came by, from behavioral targeting to Matt Cutts.
Guest(s): Bas and Roy welcomed Evert Veldhuijzen.
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Episode 3: State of Search radioshow – SES New York, local and more
Date: March 23 2010
Short summary: A very special show this time coming straight from the webmasterradio booth at Search Engine Strategies New York 2010. While seated at the booth Bas was joined by Roy over Skype from Holland.
Guest(s): Bas and Roy welcomed guests Jon and Lisa Myers, Dixon Jones and Dave Naylor. After the first break Richard Zwicky also joined into the discussion.
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Episode 2: Live without Google & Mahalo spam
Date: March 9 2010
Short summary: Bas and Roy discuss the comments made on a recent blog post entitled Mahalo.com: Meet the New Spam, Worse than the Old Spam. Bas also talks moderating a Dutch Dialogue Marketing Association panel on Organizing the Sales Funnel.
Guest(s): No guest
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Episode 1 – Global Search and Social Media
Date: March 2 2010
Short summary: Bas and Roy did their very first “State of Search show” and talked to Ciaran Norris about global search and social media. Social media expert Ciaran Norris is the Lead of Global Social Media
Mindshare, where he heads up Mindshare SocialMedia8, the new joint venture between global media agency Mindshare and social media specialists SocialMedia8. He joins Bas and Roy on the premiere episode to discuss search and social media.
Guest(s): Ciaran Norris
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Find earlier episodes (from when the show was Search Cowboys) here.


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