Digital Marketing

I know I am a day late with this post, but this is not really a news blog. For those interested in social media marketing services, a new killer agency in the space has formed yesterday, Blueglass Interactive had formed. The company has many industry stalwarts, including Chris Winfield, Dave Snyder, Brent Csutoras, Loren Baker, […]

Shashi is the senior vice president of Search products at Yahoo!, responsible for leading the company’s efforts to invent a next-generation search experience. Shashi has deep expertise in the Internet and Search industries, having held leadership positions at Google, eBay, and AOL. Prior to his role with Yahoo!, he was the senior vice president of […]

Today I have the privilege of posting an interview with Shashi Seth, the Senior VP of Search Products for Yahoo! It was a fun interview for me because the very first interview I ever did was with Shashi back on October 24, 2006. He was at Google at the time, and they had just launched […]

My latest briefing of companies in the link building tools business was with Dixon Jones of Majestic SEO. In the near future, I will publish a briefing about Wordtracker Link Builder. One of the things that distinguish Majestic SEO is that they have a huge data set – more than 1 Trillion links are cataloged […]

Presumably, anyone who reads this blog really does not need to be convinced of the value of SEO, but chances are that all of you have run into situations where you are trying to explain to someone else of the value of SEO. This is often a very challenging activity. New data from a survey […]

Rand Fishkin is the CEO & Co-Founder of SEOmoz, a leader in the field of search engine optimization tools, resources & community. In 2009, he co-authored the Art of SEO from O’Reilly Media and was named among the 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs Under 30 by BusinessWeek. Rand has been written about it in The Seattle Times, Newsweek […]

This briefing by the SEOmoz Linkscape team is the first in a series of such briefings. In the near future, you will see similar briefings of Majestic SEO and Wordtracker In the SEOmoz briefing, we get a pretty good look at some of the things that make this tool so valuable. Number one for me […]

Dixon Jones is the Marketing Director of Majestic12 LTD, owners of a web-based technology used by the world’s leading SEOs to analyze how webpages on the internet connect between domains. It is the largest database of its kind that can be analyzed publicly in this way, with well over a trillion backlinks indexed. Dixon Jones […]

Recently I received a briefing from Jeff Beard and David Dague of Localeze. In this briefing, I learned about how Localeze is focusing on Business Listings Identity Management. The basic idea is to enable businesses to have much more control over how data about how their business is listed online. It’s an interesting concept, and […]

A listings management veteran, Jeff Beard is responsible for leading Localeze’s long-term strategic vision while driving growth, new product, and business development. In 2005, Jeff led an initiative focused on building information products targeted at the local search industry. From this initiative, Localeze was created. Localeze has quickly become the largest business listings identity manager […]

Today I am publishing the transcript of my recent interview with Carter Maslan. This post summarizes some of the main points of the discussion. We spoke quite a bit about the new service area business tool from Google. Some of the major points made by Carter about this were: Many businesses don’t want to have […]

Carter Maslan is the Director of Product Management for Google Local. He also spent 6 years as a Director of Product Management & Marketing at Microsoft, and 2 years at Inktomi prior to joining Google. Interview Transcript Eric Enge: The thing that everybody has been buzzing about is the new service area business tool that […]