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.

By that, I mean you need to consider every variation that might be possible, whether that be by city name or even a synonym for a certain service or occupation, and it always seems that many get overlooked.

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.

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?

Although it’s been reported by lots of news outlets and search engine writers, my kids still had not heard that Google has teamed up with Norad this year to help improve it’s Santa tracking using Google Earth.

It’s pretty amazing, and you’d better go take a look right now!

I have personally suffered from many of these afflictions below, and as a result, I’ve had a loss of productivity, loss of time, and most likely a loss of income.

This started out to be a quick list of things that I could do to improve in 2008, and it wasn’t going to be an actual list of New Year’s resolutions.

Do you want to know what fascinates me the most about Internet marketing, and that I find really enjoyable about this business? It’s the speed at which things can happen if someone has an idea.

A person can go from an initial concept to an actual reality in a matter of just a few minutes, especially if they’re not bogged down by a committee of “deciders”.

Tonight in Las Vegas I’m going to a dinner with one of the smartest people in the world when it comes to search, Jerry West, of Web marketing now. I’ve done nothing special to get the invitation (other than remain a subscriber over the years) but it’s going to be a treat to hang out.

Spots are filling up fast for the poker tournament this Thursday night in Las Vegas. Dr. David Klein has done a good job getting the word out, and there are some pretty big names in search playing. I’m not a big time poker player or anything, but it should be fun to hang out with them. Imagine the inbound links that winners will get…