On Friday, Aug. 22, SES San Jose is offering half a dozen Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Training Workshops . Two of them are being offered by the SEMPO Institute: "Successful SEO: The Essential Elements - Part 1 and Part 2." (I should disclose that SEMPO is a client, but I'm also teaching a half-day SEO training class that is being held at the same time as Part 1 of the SEMPO Institute's full-day workshop.

SEOs come across this problem very often: what is the best way to get rid of lots of website pages without loosing rankings or getting into any sort of penalties ? The problem may be associated with: moving the site to a new domain; changing a CMS; optimization process (for the sake of better crawl rate and usability); etc.

EBay has the "honor" of being in the Wall Street Journal headlines twice today. So what do you want to read about regarding eBay today; trademark infringement or merchants leaving eBay for other smaller niche auction sites ? Looks like eBay may want a little ORM in place to handle this current flood of "news". For this post's purposes we will look at the trademark story. On the heels of a July victory stemming from a 2004 suit brought against them by Tiffany & Co.

comScore has released data showing explosive growth rates for social networking sites Facebook and Hi5 globally, with 153% and 100% respectively. With worldwide social networking growth rates at 25%, that certainly is a big piece of the pie. Facebook's biggest percentage growth came in Latin America, at a whopping 1055%. Meanwhile, Facebook added the most members in Europe, at 27 million newbies. This should come as welcome news to Microsoft,

Hi PayPal blog readers and friends, I'm Jim Hunt, senior director of PayPal merchant services.? We're continuing our Wednesday webinar series tomorrow with a webinar entitled "Using social media and networking to boost sales." With 80% of young adults between the ages of 18-21, and 59% of teenagers using social .

Managing a variety of different ad platforms can certainly be a challenge, and sometimes too much for anyone to even think about. Knowing this, we've taken the time to develop some very helpful visual training videos and text based tutorials that.

When the treemap was first introduced to adCenter Analytics Beta (it was called Project Gatineau back then), I didn't see the value. Using the size of a rectangle as a visual cue to the importance of a page ranked by page views, entries, exits, or bounces was novel but, well, I simply didn't get it. Then I was shown the value of the treemap as an alternate method of navigating my data. Now I'm a believer.

New data from Hitwise showed that Google is still leading the major search engine pack gaining 2% increase in July's share of US searches from previous month. Comparing the current data with that of last year, Google has posted a 10% in share of US searches in the same month last year. Overall Google has accounted for 70.77% share of all the searches conducted by Americans in July.

There are always room for improvements, but my overall impression of SMX S?o Paulo 2008 was positive. In order to avoid duplicated content I'm linking to Sara Holoubek's post at DM News. brazil , event , sem conference ,

Do you know your peak seasons? You should. And it helps to know when the start and when they end because when it comes to advertising, how much you spend is vitally important. But just as important is how much revenue you bring in the door as a result of that advertising. If your peak season is Christmas, for instance, you know that you can count on a certain amount of business based on the economy and the mood of the marketplace.