Lehi, UT (PRWEB) May 27, 2008 — SEO.com, an Internet marketing firm specializing in search engine marketing and optimization, has named Arne Jacobsen as Vice President of Sales. Prior to joining SEO.com, Jacobsen was VP of Sales at Mediaport Entertainment. He has held several sales leadership roles over his 25-year sales career, including VP of [...]
Google Trends Predicts Winner of American Idol
May 20, 2008 by Leave a Comment
A few months back, we analyzed Google Trends data to see which presidential candidate was most likely to win the election. The Democratic nomination process has drawn out longer than we ever anticipated, but it looks like Obama will come out on top in that one, and he stands a great chance of winning the [...]
Blogging for Business Conference in June
May 15, 2008 by Leave a Comment
The Blogging for Business Conference will be Friday, June 6th in Salt Lake City. They’ve got a great lineup of speakers coming in to talk about how businesses can join the conversation and be heard in the current (and future) consumer focused media world. Speakers include: Brian Critchfield Charlie Craine Christopher Barger Cydni Tetro Dave [...]
Recession-Proof Marketing Tips
April 26, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Many economists think we are already n the middle of a recession, or we’re quickly heading into one. I’m no economist, but it’s obvious that things are definitely tightening up. Gas prices are sky high. The housing crisis and credit crunch have people worried. Many companies are cutting back on their marketing spending, just as [...]
Matt Cutts Does Domain Roundtable
April 20, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Matt Cutts made an appearance today at the Domain Roundtable conference. Matt started things off with a few introductory comments, then spent most of the time answering questions from the audience and from questions that people sent in ahead of time. Here are the highlights of what he discussed: The primary litmus test for whether [...]
Beware of Spammers in Capitalist's Clothing
March 25, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Time for a little rant. I’ve been researching Google’s initiative to crack-down on websites selling and buying paid links. I’ve let myself get a bit riled-up as I’ve re-discovered the following: Too many people still think Capitalism is somehow inherently evil Some usually bright people have an amazingly hard time distinguishing between spam and good [...]
Search Marketing Tops $12 Billion in 2007
March 18, 2008 by Leave a Comment
According to the SEMPO report released yesterday, search marketing spending ended up being even higher than expected last year. Good news for people like us in the SEM space. Most of the money is going to paid search (87%) with organic SEO picking up about 10%. Some of the key findings from the report: The [...]
Consider the iPhone
March 6, 2008 by Leave a Comment
When Building Your Site A few of us here at SEO.com are big Apple fans. The much anticipated announcement today that the iPhone SDK would be released propels the iPhone into competition with a variety of other handheld devices for business and gaming, and publicizes a few interesting facts about mobile web browsing. Apparently the [...]
