Search Engine Strategies Conference Shuts Down

It was reported earlier this week by Barry Schwartz (Rusty Brick Consulting and Search Engine Roundtable) and Bill Hartzer that Search Engine Strategies – the series of SEO conferences started by industry pioneer Danny Sullivan back in the late 1990s – and ClickZ Live Events are no more. While the ClickZLive site (https://www.clickzlive.com/events)  is still online, the SES conference…

The Future of Search

How yesterday’s science fiction has become today’s reality. In his keynote address at SMX West this morning, Beshad Behzadi (Google’s Director of Conversational Search) opened with two video clips.  The first – from a 1960’s episode of Star Trek – showed Captain Kirk (William Shatner) asking the ship’s computer for information on two different people.  The second was a trailer from the…

Google Announces A New Mobile Index

Google Updates Webmaster Guidelines

Google Updates Their Webmaster Guidelines If you’re not an SEO professional, you’re probably asking yourself, “Why do Google’s Webmaster Guidelines matter to me?” The answer is quite simple:  Following Google’s Webmaster Guidelines “…will help Google find, index, and rank your site.” And that’s a good thing. If there’s any doubt as to how important these changes…

Thoughts on SMX West 2015

There’s a reason I never miss an SMX conference in the US.  They are far and away the best SEO focused conferences out there. That’s mostly because Danny Sullivan, Chris Sherman and the whole team at Third Door Media do an amazing job with the programming.  But it’s also because SMX brings together some of the best…