I’m attending Pubcon in Las Vegas this week, and there is a poker tournament taking place Thursday night that I want to attend. Interestingly, the organizer chose to tie attendance in with a charity, so I thought I’d tsake this opportunity to write a little bit about a local Portland organization called Snow-Cap.

As I promised this morning, I have uploaded my East Portland Chamber of Commerce presentation here, including all of the links that I spoke about.

You may open it directly from this link, or just right click here and choose “save as” to get it onto your own computer.

For those that weren’t in attendance, it’s a basic presentation with a few site-usability tips, and links to what I believe are the best 12 places for listing your website for free in local directories.

Believe it or not, the board of SEMpdx has been getting a number of emails asking us where to register for SearchFest 2009, coming up in March.

So, I figured I would take a minute to point out the SearchFest registration, as well as the entire SearchFest 2009 agenda, and a link to our sponsors.

Well, here it is, supposedly, Google Friend Connect in action. I’m not quite sure exactly what it is yet, but I’m in, after signing up a few weeks ago. Are you?

Apparently it’s Google’s answer to My Blog Log, which I have in my right sidebar, but it lets users sign in with their Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account. Nice…

Colleen from Search Engine Academy of Oregon has invited me back to speak again to her class in November, and I’ll be taking her up on it.

My session will be about how to make the most of your efforts when marketing via the social networking sites, and I’ll be covering my own agenda, as well as some of the materials from SEA.

Google Suggest has been around for quite awhile now, but at the moment I’m noticing it take effect on the regular Google homepage.

Basically, you just begin type in something, and Google will pre-fill beneath your text, trying to guess what you’re looking for, showing you related searches, and showing you the number of results it will find.

It’s not often that a world-class Internet marketing event comes to Portland, but on August 5th, I’ll be at the Online Marketing Summit, taking place here at the Portland zoo.

Whether you’re looking for best practices in search marketing or e-commerce, analytics and measurement, testing and behavior targeting, or even e-mail marketing, there’s bound to be sessions that will educate and enlighten key members of your staff.

Over the past couple of years, we’ve become quite dependent upon WordPress because of the versatility of this open source management system, allowing us to do nearly anything we can imagine.

In many cases WordPress can be a good supplement to existing website, allowing users to easily add and manage search engine friendly content without the need of the Web designer.

The owner of this site wants to be found for more “Second Life” related search terms, and In the 10 minute video I offer some intermediate level suggestions that may help with overall visibility.

Pay per click campaigns can be somewhat tedious to set up, primarily because all the data that you get from the keyword research tools need to be reworked into a more useful list. My new keyword multiplier tool should make it a lot easier!

Mark this date down in history, because Google is getting really ambitious today. First they rolled out the ability to search future Web content,  which is really slick. Although currently its active only in Australia, It will work on all .com domains,  including my own, so I was able to easily take care of my blog posts for the next 90 days.

Next, they announced Project Virgle, which is a joint venture with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to establish a permanent settlement on Mars.   Again, make note of this date, April 1, 2008, because it’s not something you’re going to read every day.

Here’s what I went through on Christmas Day, just to get songs we legally purchased through Itunes to play on my kids new MP3 players…

I will never spend another dollar with Itunes after what I went through. Tell me again why anyone would pay $.99 a song, only to (eventually) figure out that you’re not allowed to listen to them on any device other than an Apple brand music player?