Last Vancouver SEM Meetup was in conjunction with IMC Vancouver, and we were lucky to have Ken Jurina. Ken presented on Negative Keywords, a topic that I believe is very underdeveloped in the PPC industry. In fact, Ken proved that even I could pay a little more attention to negative keywords. But Ken’s approach to […]
Vancouver SEM Meetup – SEO Clinic Review
The slogan was 5 minutes, 5 SEOs, 10 sites. Basically, we had five minutes to take a look at a site we had never seen before and make recommendations from a Search Engine Optimization perspective. It was fun. The Internet connection was pretty crappy, but it gave us enough to go over most sites. It […]
John Hossack from VKI Studios at Vancouver SEM Meetup – Jan 2009
My first post of the year is going to be to thank John Hossack and VKI Studios for coming out last Monday to present at the Vancouver Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Meetup, which I organize. It was the first time we run out of seats in the room at what has become our regular Meetup […]
Meetup of Meetups 09 – Too Immediate Post
It’s almost midnight. I’m a little tipsy and not sure if it’s kosher to write while in this condition, but as Nike says, I’ll just do it. I’m coming back from the Meetup of Meetups here were more people that I could count. The word is that there were more than 500; and I would […]
IIMA Sponsors Vancouver SEM Meetup
The Vanouver SEM Meetup was lucky enough to get a sponsorship offer from the International Internet Marketing Association (IIMA) last week. They are offering 25% off new individual and corporate memberships for the month of December. That’s a generous chunk of cash (thank you IIMA :)) and I wouldn’t be surprised if IIMA membership goes […]
Vancouver SEM Meetup – Oct 6th – Raquel Hirsch from Wider Funnel
Last week the Vancouver Search Engine Marketing Meetup had Raquel Hirsch from Wider Funnel as a presenter. The presentation, I thought was great; the sound and A/V quality at Ceili’s, not so much. Here are my thoughts: The presentation was titled The Six Landing Page Success Factors. Wider Funnel is a company that specializes in […]