Archive: August, 2008

During the recent Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose, I was privileged to interview the grandfather of the search marketing industry Danny Sullivan at the WebmasterRadio.FM booth. It was an amazing interview which ranged from Danny’s earliest days starting the Search Engine Watch journal and the SES conference series to his new ventures, the Search Marketing Expo conferences and the Search Engine Land journal.

Unfortunately, something happened between the microphones and the mixing board. While the engineer says the interview sounded fine in his headphones, the recording is garbled in places with a terrible digital echo over-shadowing our voices from time to time. That is too bad as I felt it was one of the best interviews I have ever done and certainly one I am most proud of.

At any rate, here is a link to the interview. The sound gets flakey about five minutes in but astute listeners can make out most of the words. I am working on getting a transcription to post at a later date.

Danny Sullivan interviewed by Jim Hedger at SES San Jose 2008

The Pay Per Click Summit is holding a contest with a free pass to the upcoming two-day LA conference as a prize. Scheduled for September 25 and 26, the PPC Summit will be held at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel in downtown LA.

People who want to win a free ticket to the conference need to follow this link and answer three relatively simple questions:

1/ What top 3 strategies impacted your most profitable search engine marketing campaign?
2/ What made the difference for your campaign ROI?
3/ What were your campaign results?

The PPC Summit is considered the premier PPC-focused show. This year PPC Summit will feature presentations from well known names such as, Jay Sears, David Stoller, David Szetela, Mary O’Brien, Jason Miller, Heather Lutze and Mark Evans.

For those of you who don’t win a ticket, there is still time for early registration. For those who do enter the contest, there are a few rules and conditions you need to be aware of.