Last week Eric Schmidt made a presence at the DLD conference in Munich. The Germans were very excited to have the almost ex-CEO of Google on stage. It is there that he announced that Google is expanding in Europe. And not just in London, they are also growing in Germany.
In his talk he adresses the next decade. And you have to admit: he is a good speaker. He had a nice quote again, children are either asleep or online..
The first big SES conference of the year and the biggest one in Europe is getting closer and closer: SES London 2011. Which means you will see more and more coverage appearing about that conference right here on State of Search. And remember, you can still win a ticket if you nominate someone or someone nominates YOU for a ticket!
The conference which takes place between the 21st and 25th of February at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre, in Westminster London, UK will see about 1500 marketers get together to learn about search, social and online marketing strategies. There are many sessions you can attend which are interesting to see, see the program here.
But one of the main reasons you should visit SES is the huge opportunity to network with not only these 1500 marketers, but also to get in touch with the experts in the field. Those who can help you get that step further. And there is no better place to that than in the pub! And that place to be is at the HMS President on the Wednesday 23rd of February. (more…)
In the past week we have been asking you to tell us how you feel about which conference was the best one of 2010. We’ve had many people fill in the (huge) form, judging the events they’ve attended. Thank you for that! The voting now has officially closed and we are currently in the proces of counting the votes… The winners? They will be announced… well, see for yourself:
Hi Everyone! My name is Sam Crocker, I am a Lead SEO at Distilled in London and I’m extremely excited to be writing my first post for State of Search (hopefully the first of many). Today I’ve been asked to share some of the lessons we’ve learned from hosting this year’s ProSEO seminar.
It has been an exhausting few weeks for the team but I think there should definitely be some good lessons for anyone who has ever thought “this seems like an easy way to make some money”.
A very special thank you to our organiser Lynsey Little for sharing some of the things she learned and for everyone who filled out the feedback forms that helped me write this post. (more…)
Universal Search has changed the search landscape. You now get videos, images, news, blogs, products and much more. At
I talked to Tom Critchlow after his talk at day 1 of
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It was a busy day yesterday at SMX in London, unlike previous years this was the under the ‘Advanced” brand which made a huge difference, there was less of the SEO 101 content we all know so well and more actionable suggestions and plenty of coverage of topics that we’re new to me.
But what if you weren’t there, or where overwhelmed by by the sheer volume of live tweets?
Well Jaamit has done some great live blogging, which has some great run downs, but I’ve tried to make it even quicker with my nine takeaways from the first day. (more…)
It’s one of those weeks again. If you are in Search Marketing or working with or as an affiliate and you are looking to learn how to improve your business there is plenty of opportunity in Europe to get more information. That is, if the Icelandic ash cloud doesn’t stop you.
In London SMX is starting their advanced sessions for the first time in Europe. The successful format has been running in the US (Seattle) for a while but SMX has decided it was time for Europe to get its own SMX advanced. Meanwhile on the other side of the North Sea affiliates and search marketers are (trying to) gathering in Munich where A4U Expo opens its affiliate doors for the first time. State of Search will try to give you updates on both events, so stay tuned!
We have special pages set up for both SMX London and
Search Marketing Expo London starts in two weeks at the Grand Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden. For the first time since SMX came to Europe the show is all advanced, in the same format SMX has been using in Seattle, USA.
The show hosts regular names like Mikkel deMib Svendsen, Rand Fishkin, Rob Kerry, our very own Kelvin Newman, Andy Atkins-Krueger, Christine Churchill and has a surprising speaker: ex-SES host Kevin Ryan.
The keynote of the conference will be done by Wolfram Alpha Managing Director Barak Berkowitz.
Organizer Danny Sullivan is enthusiastic about the new set up:
“SMX Advanced’s unique format has been very successful in Seattle. Adding London is ideal, given its sophisticated search marketing community. Topics at Advanced are discussed at a very high level, so there’s no slowing down to bring beginners up to speed. This format isn’t for everyone, and we have other conferences that address the needs of beginners, but experienced search marketers have embraced Advanced enthusiastically,”
SMX Advanced London will take place on 17/18th May 2010 at The Grand Connaught Rooms, Covent Garden. SMX Advanced is the only search marketing conference designed exclusively for experienced internet marketers. Sessions are fast-paced, Q&A-packed, frequently controversial, always informative and don’t stop to cover the basics.
If you want to attend the conference you can go there with a 15% discount code from State of Search! Register here and fill in the Promotional code “STATEOFSEARCH010”
Have fun!
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.
The shownotes are below, all the links can also be found in the special delicious feed.
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Yesterday I spoke at SASCON, a conference organized by several Manchester SEOs. The organization did a really good job. The conference was organized for the first time and that meant a lot of things were new to both organizers and visitors. And that made it a refreshing conference. The organization tried to look at as much as possible to make the event a succes. These days I mostly speak at conferences, but as a media partner for some conferences (like the upcoming A4U Expo) I’ve also blogged on conferences a lot.
At conferences you can see a lot of bloggers sitting, mostly in te front row, typing and typing. These girls and guys are covering the event. That’s a good thing, because after all, not everybody can attend the conference. With Twitter it has already become more easy to follow what is going on at a conference but it is still a very nice thing that you can read back blogposts about a conference. Yesterday at SASCON I was especially impressed with bloggers Kieron Hughes and David Towers who managed to get a lot of content out there in very little time. I saw posts coming by from Kieron even before a session was actually finished. That’s a hard work because you have to pay attention and write at the same time.
I have been blogging conferences for years. And I can tell you: it can be a lot of hard work if you want to do it right. That’s why I’ve gathered some tips for those of you who plan on live covering a conference. Just to make the blogging life a bit easier. (more…)
Europe has been ‘hit’ with a natural disaster this week. In Iceland a volcano burst leaving not only about 700 people homeless, it also left people stranded all over Europe with flights being canceled all over the continent.
As you can expect this event has been discussed all over the Internet. Several websites are down, others (like the Schiphol airport) have put up a plain html page because they can’t handle the traffic. A lot of activity on the web, all for a sad reason. The information people are looking for is also very difficult to filter and to find out the right answers to your questions. A quick look around the web also showed that not many are actually using the situation for their own benefit. Is it because its not ‘decent’? Or are many out there just not paying attention?
Lets take a look at a few opportunities which you have to gain from the situation and how you can help those looking to go home at the same time. (more…)
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:
In the end even the ‘rockstar status’ of Matt Cutts was discussed.
The shownotes are below, all the links can also be found in the special delicious feed. (more…)
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