IM Broadcast: “YouTube For Internet Marketers”

Our friends, Loren Baker, David Snyder & Jordan Kasteler have launched a new video site named IM Broadcast. IM Broadcast, as Loren describes it, is "YouTube for Internet Marketers." In short, it is a video sharing site focused around the Internet Marketing industry. The focus is not just to upload videos on Internet marketing topics, but to also create a social networking site around those videos. Why not for our industry? We already have dozens and dozens of discussion forums, we have our own Sphinn site and we have WebmasterRadio.FM as our radio site. IM Broadcast will be liv [...]

Filed in: SEM Industry: Blogs & Forums, SEM Industry: Community


Sphinn Japan Launches: Internet & Search Marketing News, In Japanese

When we launched our Sphinn social news site for search and internet marketers last year, we quickly were hit by a huge number of Japanese-language submissions. Unfortunately, we had to go to an English-only rule, as we had no easy way to moderate those submissions, such as checking for spam. Now, problem solved -- Sphinn Japan has launched. Congrats and big credit to Kenichi Suzuki and his developer Sera Hiroyuki, who've worked hard over the past few months to bring the site to life! [...]

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What Are Search Blogs Talking About?

Lee Odden wrote Word Visualization on Search Marketing Blogs, where he used a tool named Wordle to show what the search blogs are actually talking about. Wordle forms a tag cloud of the most used words and phrases on a particular blog. The neat part is that Wordle allows you to select different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. So what are we talking about? Here is Wordle on the Google Blog: Lee has gone through 10 well-known search blogs and has done this for each one. It makes for a quick and fun read. [...]

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Google Hosting Live Chat Event & SEMPO’s First SEM Debate

This Thursday, June 19th at 5pm (EST), Google will be hosting their second live chat session for webmasters. The first event, which took place in March, turned out to be a pretty big success. To register for the event, go here and click on the "register" link on the left hand side of the page - you won't want to miss it. SEMPO is hosting the "Great SEMPO NY Debate" at Stitch in New York on 247 West 37th Street. The event is tomorrow at 6:30pm on Wednesday, June 18th. The topic of discussion is, "Which is the best way to manage search engine marketing, In-House or Agency?" To register fo [...]

Filed in: Google: Webmaster Central, SEM Industry: Blogs & Forums, SEM Industry: Community, SEM Industry: Conferences, SEM Industry: Organizations


Announcing The 2007 “Columbo” Humorous Blog Post Winners

The fix is in, the votes have been counted, and the winners determined in the 2007 Rubber Chicken Award for Humor (aka the Columbo) in the search industry. And the winners are: The Judges' Choice Award: Top 21 Signs You Need a Break From SEO (2007 version) Matt MccGee - Small Business SEM The People's Choice Award: Google Interiors: The day my house became searchable - Sandra Niehaus - Closed Loop Marketing Runner Ups (in no particular order and for the purposes of this contest tied for 2nd): 13 Things to Do When Your Loved One is Away at Conferences - Mystery Guest, SEOMoz The Sphinn Awar [...]

Filed in: SEM Industry: Blogs & Forums


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