Small Business SEM

Happy New Year!
With nary an hour to spare, predictions….
1. Google will continue to work harder than Yahoo and MSN combined when it comes to marketing its own products and services to small businesses. There will be more deals like the Intuit partnership aimed specifically at SMEs. Google will continue to tie its products and [...]

It’s the last linkfest of the year, so let’s make it a good one, shall we?
Since it’s that time of year, Chris Winfield takes us through the 101 Biggest Stories in Search 2006 at 10e20.
Here’s some good content/SEO advice from Ian McAnerin, whose opinions and ideas I trust tremendously. Sitemap - Embarrassment or Godsend? [...]

Yes, it’s true! (C’est vrai!)
Gradiva Cousin and Jennifer Grappone, co-authors of Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day, recently sent me some questions about small business SEM (what else would you expect the questions to be about?) and it was a treat to put together what I hope were coherent thoughts. I hope you agree:
Interview [...]

2006 has been, without question, the best year of my life that didn’t involve getting married or having a child. A large part of that is due to what began on April 18, 2006, the day Small Business SEM was born. That, plus a visit to the Search Engine Watch Live one-day seminar in Seattle [...]

Well, maybe not “new blogs” but certainly new to me.

McAnerin Muse
Lonely Marketer
WordPress SEO
Praized Blog - “where local meets social”
Aaron Shear on SEO
Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik — all about web analytics
Ramblings About SEO - by Eric Enge, one of the great people I met in Chicago this month
10e20
I’m always looking for new sources of good [...]

The highly respected Dan Thies says he’s ending his training programs. And he’s going to have one last teleseminar tomorrow (Thursday) where he says he’ll be giving away all kinds of secrets and tips from his classes.
Guess I’ll have to update my “Big Ideas for Small Business” presentation before the next conference. Dan’s classes were [...]

I’m still testing and tweaking various things with this new blog template, so don’t be alarmed if things look/act a bit odd on your next visit (or this one, for that matter). You may have already noticed a couple new additions to SBS, but just in case I’ll point them out here:
1.) I’ve started drinking [...]

Because the holidays have me reading at odd intervals and posting has fallen behind, there was no “Friday Night Link-o-rama” last week, and there may not be one this week, either. So how about a Tuesday version, instead, to fill the gap? Sounds good to me, especially since it’s a quick post and there’s not [...]