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SES Round-up

Jolina and Mike had a great time at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Chicago. Not only is it the windy city, but a festive, cold and snowy one too by the sounds of it.

SES - Landing Page Optimization

The clinic consists of a live, interactive landing page optimization clinic run by industry experts. Audience members will be asked to submit websites and any paid search campaigns prior to the clinic and samples will be chosen for live analysis. Moderator: Kevin Heisler, Executive Editor, Search Engine Watch Speakers: Jimmy Ellis, Director of Optimization Research, MarketingExperiments, Marc Wachen, CEO and co-founder, Optimost, Scott Miller, President and founder, Vertster

PubCon - European Site Optimization

This session is a round up of current international optimization and promotion issues. Panelists will address multi-language issues, Euro PPC/SEO, and how to crack the Southeast Asian riddle.

Get Free Advertising Advice From Google

The Google AdWords blog had a post today that caught my attention. The AdWords Optimization Team is accepting requests from advertisers who want feedback on their campaigns. Simply fill out a request form and tell Google about your business and advertising goals.

PRSA: Social Media for PR Practitioners

I just returned from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) International conference being held in Philadelphia where I participated on a panel, “Social Media, What Every PR Practitioner Needs to Know” with Rob Key of Converseon, Nicco Mele of echoditto and Peter Himler of Flatiron Communications who handled moderation duties.

dotMobi Domains Sell for 1/2 Million

Congratulations to the gang at dotMobi for their successful Moniker auction in Miami last Friday. I am extremely impressed with how much they made on these domains.

Optimize for Yahoo Images Search with Flickr

Google Blogoscoped reports that Yahoo’s Image Search now particularly likes Flickr content, so this may be incentive for webmasters to use Flickr “as a kind of Yahoo search engine optimization”.

Search? Bah, We're Ready For Some Football

There's a dearth of interesting bits in the world of search this week, probably since it's between SES San Jose and the last big holiday weekend of the summer.

10 Ways To Optimize Your Blog

There's a lot of blogs out there – a lot – so getting yours noticed could be difficult. The good news is that it can be done and those who have done it are willing to share a few tricks of the trade.

SES - Lee's Day 3 Wrap Up

Another great day is how I’d characterize day three of the San Jose Search Engine Strategies conference.