SES San Jose 2006 kicks off today – unfortunately, I was unable to make this conference due to other commitments back home (like my 10 year High School Reunion ). Luckily, thanks to Technorati, you can follow the action here. On another more general note, I’m renaming this blog from “Vinny Lingham’s Search & Affiliate [...]

I have a very busy schedule here in London, so I may not catch many panels – but here is one! Chris Sherman introduces the panel: Jonty Kelt – Managing Director of UK and Europe – Performics Bob Ivins – Managing Direct – ComScore Elizabeth Van Couvering – London School of Economics Graham Hansell – [...]

Danny from SearchEngineWatch is a fabulous speaker, and this keynote address was packed out. Danny’s view are that we all united by search. We’re all different people and we wear black hats, white hats, organic, paid or a mixture of them, including a growing number of in-house search engine marketers. “Who Loves Ya Baby?” Anecdotally, [...]

First presenter is Christine Churchill from KeyRelevance. “It’s not about the keywords you want to be found on, it’s about what users use to find you.” Keyword Popularity Suggestion Tools Adwords Sandbox Overture Suggestion Tool Wordtracker Nichebot KeywordDiscovery Keywords indicate where consumers are in the buying process. Problem Recognition – Information Search – Select Alternatives [...]

SES Chicago 2005 Session : Dealing with Contextual & Other Non-Search Ads I finally made it Chicago – and it’s snowing! It’s really beautiful, but freezing cold. I’ll be blogging the sessions that I attend at Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2005. Here’s my blog for the first session: Dealing with Contextual & Other Non-Search Ads [...]