Search Engine Strategies (SES) 2009 London Conference and Expo

Not long now, and we can jump on a train down to the big smoke (ironic to call the capital that as we live in the heart of the Midlands, possibly the most industrial region of the country, and more specifically in the Black Country, so called because of the smog that once came from the factories) but anyway I digress, down to London to the highlight of the year so far – the SES Conference and Expo at The Business Design Centre in Islington. It’s a 3 day conference from 17th – 19th Feb 2009, with an SEM Training Day on 20^th and very useful indeed to anyone in marketing wanting to learn more about online marketing and advertising, including Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimisation. Marketers, consultants and industry leaders from the world’s leading businesses gather there to review the very latest SEM and SEO techniques, and it is a chance not to be missed to pick their brains and hear their thoughts. Don’t worry if you can’t make it though we’ll bring back all the tips we learn and if you’re very, very nice we’ll share them with you.

Search Engine Strategies (SES) 2009 London Conference and Expo

Not long now, and we can jump on a train down to the big smoke (ironic to call the capital that as we live in the heart of the Midlands, possibly the most industrial region of the country, and more specifically in the Black Country, so called because of the smog that once came from the factories) but anyway I digress, down to London to the highlight of the year so far – the SES Conference and Expo at The Business Design Centre in Islington. It’s a 3 day conference from 17th – 19th Feb 2009, with an SEM Training Day on 20^th and very useful indeed to anyone in marketing wanting to learn more about online marketing and advertising, including Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimisation. Marketers, consultants and industry leaders from the world’s leading businesses gather there to review the very latest SEM and SEO techniques, and it is a chance not to be missed to pick their brains and hear their thoughts. Don’t worry if you can’t make it though we’ll bring back all the tips we learn and if you’re very, very nice we’ll share them with you.

Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust

We received a phone call on Friday from Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust, a registered charity providing a network of care to life-limited children and their families across the Midlands. We were asked for a small donation, which we gave willingly, but it drew to our attention the plight of the many children and families in the Midlands in need of their help and felt that a donation was the very least we could do. We’d like to appeal to every business locally to give a little something to help fund such a worthy charity.

Acorns cares for children who are “life-limited” - which means they are unlikely to reach adulthood - and offers support to their families. They cover a defined catchment area including the counties of Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and the West Midlands. They have three hospices situated in Birmingham, Walsall and Worcester as well as a community team that offers practical and emotional support to families in their homes.

Acorns offers respite, emergency and end-of-life care and on average one of the children they care for dies every week. They rely on the community to fund the majority of their activities as only 10% comes from statutory funding. That’s why it’s really vital that you help in any way possible as the job they do is amazing.

To support them visit http://www.acorns.org.uk/At_work.asp and help by giving a donation, through staff fund raising or any of the other ideas you’ll find there.

Search Engine Strategies 2009 Conference and Expo – Not to be Missed!

I am now getting really excited about the Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo 2009 being held at The Business Design Centre in Islington. It’s a 3 day conference from 17th – 19th Feb 2009, with an SEM Training Day on 20th.

It’s an industry event definitely not to be missed if you want to network with your peers and learn more about SEM, organised and hosted by leading search engine marketing expert Mike Grehan.

There are loads of excellent speakers with years of experience in their respective areas and lots of training seminars. It’s well worth the registration fee so if you are a chief marketing officer, an SEO consultant, an SEM specialist, a PPC campaign manager, a web developer or designer, an internet marketing specialist, or a beginner in any of the above you should get yourselves to London for this event in February.

http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/london/

See you there…….

Excellent Article on SEOmoz.org

Happy New Year and welcome back. It’s been a while, what with the hecticness of the festive period generally and moving house at this time as well…..doh! I recommend not doing that, ever. I just doesn’t work and when you come back to work after the New Year you just feel like you need another holiday so that you can actually relax.

Hey ho, we’re back and in full swing so the painful memories are quickly receding. Being at work is actually a get away from the remaining boxes and unpacking that will probably never get done, as if it’s not unpacked already then it’s not really needed.

But enough of my personal woes and back to the subject at hand. I just want to mention a blog post by Randfish on SEOmoz.org about “Best Practices for Content Optimisation” as it’s really useful. And as it’s so well written I’m not even going to try and explain it just send you there via this link….

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/best-practices-for-content-optimization

It’s a great place to read daily blog posts as they are written by an industry expert who obviously knows his stuff and he writes really clearly for us relative newbies to understand. So a big thanks to Randfish and SEOmoz.org for all their help so far and keep up the good work.

Go and check it out.