Free Webinar: Getting to Know Open Site Explorer

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Last week we unveiled our newest toy, Open Site Explorer, to the world and the response was phenomenal. Now we want to take some time and really show everyone just what this powerful link analysis tool is capable of and answer your questions, so we’re hosting not one, but two FREE Webinars this week (it’s the same content, run twice to help accomodate schedules and time zones).

The presentations will be 60 minutes each, 25 minutes of slides, followed by 35 minutes of Q+A on Wednesday, January 27th at 2:00PM (PST), and Thursday, January 28th at 10:00AM (PST)  In each live webinar, Rand will show you around Open Site Explorer, offer tips and strategies for getting the most out of it, explain our new Domain Authority & Page Authority metrics, and answer your questions.

Here’s the catch: each webinar is limited to 1,000 attendees. The last time we announced a webinar on the blog, we had over 3,000 people try to register in the first hour, so if you want to attend one of the live sessions, register quickly. If you can’t make it, we’ll have a recording of the presentation available in a couple of days on our webinars page.



Looooove Webinars and can’t get enough of ‘em? Then you should totally become a PRO Member! In the last couple of months we’ve started running regular webinars just for PRO Members and they’ve been really popular.

PRO Webinar Link Building Strategies
A slide from our December PRO Webinar on Link Building Strategies

PRO Webinar SEO Strategies for 2010
A slide from our January PRO Webinar on SEO Strategies for 2010

In February we’re stepping it up even more. In addition to our monthly educational webinar (February 4th on Analytics), we’re adding a second monthly webinar where we’ll be performing live site reviews of sites submitted by our PRO Members!

PRO Members can head over to the PRO Webinars page for more info on February’s webinars, as well as recordings and slide decks from past webinars. If you’d like to join us for the next PRO Webinar–and possibly even get a live site review–sign up for PRO to access the PRO Webinar page for registration details or just watch your inbox for an invite.

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Posted by great scott!

Last week we unveiled our newest toy, Open Site Explorer, to the world and the response was phenomenal. Now we want to take some time and really show everyone just what this powerful link analysis tool is capable of and answer your questions, so we’re hosting not one, but two FREE Webinars this week (it’s the same content, run twice to help accomodate schedules and time zones).

The presentations will be 60 minutes each, 25 minutes of slides, followed by 35 minutes of Q+A on Wednesday, January 27th at 2:00PM (PST), and Thursday, January 28th at 10:00AM (PST)  In each live webinar, Rand will show you around Open Site Explorer, offer tips and strategies for getting the most out of it, explain our new Domain Authority & Page Authority metrics, and answer your questions.

Here’s the catch: each webinar is limited to 1,000 attendees. The last time we announced a webinar on the blog, we had over 3,000 people try to register in the first hour, so if you want to attend one of the live sessions, register quickly. If you can’t make it, we’ll have a recording of the presentation available in a couple of days on our webinars page.



Looooove Webinars and can’t get enough of ‘em? Then you should totally become a PRO Member! In the last couple of months we’ve started running regular webinars just for PRO Members and they’ve been really popular.

PRO Webinar Link Building Strategies
A slide from our December PRO Webinar on Link Building Strategies

PRO Webinar SEO Strategies for 2010
A slide from our January PRO Webinar on SEO Strategies for 2010

In February we’re stepping it up even more. In addition to our monthly educational webinar (February 4th on Analytics), we’re adding a second monthly webinar where we’ll be performing live site reviews of sites submitted by our PRO Members!

PRO Members can head over to the PRO Webinars page for more info on February’s webinars, as well as recordings and slide decks from past webinars. If you’d like to join us for the next PRO Webinar–and possibly even get a live site review–sign up for PRO to access the PRO Webinar page for registration details or just watch your inbox for an invite.

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Announcing SMX SphinnCon Israel 2010: March 7, 2010

sphinncon.jpgSearch Marketing Expo’s SphinnCon is coming back to Jerusalem, Israel on March 7, 2010. The premier networking event is being hosted by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land’s News Editor at the Jerusalem College of Technology, a premier sponsor the event. To learn more about the event, visit searchmarketingexpo.com/sphinncon.

Make sure to register quickly over at searchmarketingexpo.com/sphinncon before it is sold out. The last time we held this event, it was sold out several weeks in advance. You won’t want to miss out on jammed packed half day of sessions on SEO, PPC, Web Analytics, Social Media and much more. With both global and local experts in search marketing, including representatives from Google, Search Engine Land and other well-known companies – there is nothing like this event anywhere.

SphinnCon is an intimate and 1-day event. Conference tickets are priced at only $50 per attendee, but it is limited to only 200 attendees. So make sure to register quickly, before all the seats are taken.

The low price is only made possible from our gracious sponsors, including the Jerusalem College of Technology. I must thank the Jerusalem College of Technology for providing the venue, video equipment, and so much more. “The Jerusalem College of Technology is proud to once again host this important event. I believe that the institution is a natural home for this type of activity as it has long been at the forefront of both the high-tech world and technological management,” said Dr. Avi Kay, Chair of the Department of Technological Management and Marketing.

Our current speaker list includes both global and local experts, such as Barry Schwartz, President of RustyBrick, a Google representative from Google Israel and the webmaster team, Vanessa Fox, Author of Marketing in the Age of Google, Ophir Cohen, CEO, Compucall Web Marketing, Branko Rihtman, SEO & R&D Specialist at WhiteWeb, Gilad Sasson, Director of Search & Online Marketing at Nekuda, Eli Feldblum, Founder & CTO at RankAbove and many others.

Our current sponsors include the Jerusalem College of Technology, Compucall Web Marketing and Answers.com. If you are interested in sponsoring please visit searchmarketingexpo.com/sphinncon for more information.

Want to speak? Again visit searchmarketingexpo.com/sphinncon.

I urge you to register as soon as possible before all the seats are taken. Register at searchmarketingexpo.com/sphinncon by clicking on the “Ready to Register? CLICK HERE” icon at the top right. You will be taken to the MeetUp website and asked to register and pay over there.

Don’t miss out, register today at searchmarketingexpo.com/sphinncon.

Event Quick Details:
Date: Sunday, March 7, 2009
Time: 11:30am to 6pm
Venue: Jerusalem College of Technology
Location: 21 HaVaad Haleumi St, Givat Mordechai, Jerusalem
Cost: $50
Max Attendance: 200 people


sphinncon.jpgSearch Marketing Expo’s SphinnCon is coming back to Jerusalem, Israel on March 7, 2010. The premier networking event is being hosted by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land’s News Editor at the Jerusalem College of Technology, a premier sponsor the event. To learn more about the event, visit searchmarketingexpo.com/sphinncon.

Make sure to register quickly over at searchmarketingexpo.com/sphinncon before it is sold out. The last time we held this event, it was sold out several weeks in advance. You won’t want to miss out on jammed packed half day of sessions on SEO, PPC, Web Analytics, Social Media and much more. With both global and local experts in search marketing, including representatives from Google, Search Engine Land and other well-known companies – there is nothing like this event anywhere.

SphinnCon is an intimate and 1-day event. Conference tickets are priced at only $50 per attendee, but it is limited to only 200 attendees. So make sure to register quickly, before all the seats are taken.

The low price is only made possible from our gracious sponsors, including the Jerusalem College of Technology. I must thank the Jerusalem College of Technology for providing the venue, video equipment, and so much more. “The Jerusalem College of Technology is proud to once again host this important event. I believe that the institution is a natural home for this type of activity as it has long been at the forefront of both the high-tech world and technological management,” said Dr. Avi Kay, Chair of the Department of Technological Management and Marketing.

Our current speaker list includes both global and local experts, such as Barry Schwartz, President of RustyBrick, a Google representative from Google Israel and the webmaster team, Vanessa Fox, Author of Marketing in the Age of Google, Ophir Cohen, CEO, Compucall Web Marketing, Branko Rihtman, SEO & R&D Specialist at WhiteWeb, Gilad Sasson, Director of Search & Online Marketing at Nekuda, Eli Feldblum, Founder & CTO at RankAbove and many others.

Our current sponsors include the Jerusalem College of Technology, Compucall Web Marketing and Answers.com. If you are interested in sponsoring please visit searchmarketingexpo.com/sphinncon for more information.

Want to speak? Again visit searchmarketingexpo.com/sphinncon.

I urge you to register as soon as possible before all the seats are taken. Register at searchmarketingexpo.com/sphinncon by clicking on the “Ready to Register? CLICK HERE” icon at the top right. You will be taken to the MeetUp website and asked to register and pay over there.

Don’t miss out, register today at searchmarketingexpo.com/sphinncon.

Event Quick Details:
Date: Sunday, March 7, 2009
Time: 11:30am to 6pm
Venue: Jerusalem College of Technology
Location: 21 HaVaad Haleumi St, Givat Mordechai, Jerusalem
Cost: $50
Max Attendance: 200 people



Upcoming AdWords API v2009 Hack Days in San Francisco & New York

Developers who code for the AdWords API do not want to miss the upcoming AdWords API v2009 Hack Days. There is one in San Francisco on January 7, 2010 and on in New York on January 14, 2010. The event is free and runs most the day, plus you get a free Google lunch. Keep in mind, the event is only for developers.

Eric Koleda from the Google AdWords API Team extended the invite in the AdWords API Forum. Eric said:

Have you been putting off migrating to v2009? Not sure where to start? Been way too busy? Well it’s time to jump start your v2009 development with some in-person help from Google. Join us in Mountain View or New York for a full day of non-stop v2009 hacking.

To keep things interesting throughout the day, we’ll do some coding demos of the cool things you can do with v2009 that weren’t possible in v13, like asynchronous calls, dynamic ad parameters, and more. Non-engineers beware! This is a developer-only event, and there will be no content or activities for attendees who don’t plan to write code.

Space is limited, and signups are on a first come, first serve basis. We ask that you limit attendees to two people per company. If you are based in Europe please don’t register yet, as a similar EMEA event is in the works and will be announced shortly.

More information and the signup form are available here: http://sites.google.com/site/v2009hackdays/

Event Details include:

Dates: San Francisco – January 7th or New York – January 14th
Time: 10am until 5pm
Locations: 345 Spear St, San Francisco, CA 94105 or 75 9th Ave, New York, NY 10011
Topics: Migrating a sample application to v2009, Using AdParameters to bring your text ads to life, Asynchronous Jobs: massive changes made fast and easy, Effective local advertising with Local Ad Extensions, And more!

Sign up over here.

Forum discussion at AdWords API Forum.


Developers who code for the AdWords API do not want to miss the upcoming AdWords API v2009 Hack Days. There is one in San Francisco on January 7, 2010 and on in New York on January 14, 2010. The event is free and runs most the day, plus you get a free Google lunch. Keep in mind, the event is only for developers.

Eric Koleda from the Google AdWords API Team extended the invite in the AdWords API Forum. Eric said:

Have you been putting off migrating to v2009? Not sure where to start? Been way too busy? Well it’s time to jump start your v2009 development with some in-person help from Google. Join us in Mountain View or New York for a full day of non-stop v2009 hacking.

To keep things interesting throughout the day, we’ll do some coding demos of the cool things you can do with v2009 that weren’t possible in v13, like asynchronous calls, dynamic ad parameters, and more. Non-engineers beware! This is a developer-only event, and there will be no content or activities for attendees who don’t plan to write code.

Space is limited, and signups are on a first come, first serve basis. We ask that you limit attendees to two people per company. If you are based in Europe please don’t register yet, as a similar EMEA event is in the works and will be announced shortly.

More information and the signup form are available here: http://sites.google.com/site/v2009hackdays/

Event Details include:

Dates: San Francisco – January 7th or New York – January 14th
Time: 10am until 5pm
Locations: 345 Spear St, San Francisco, CA 94105 or 75 9th Ave, New York, NY 10011
Topics: Migrating a sample application to v2009, Using AdParameters to bring your text ads to life, Asynchronous Jobs: massive changes made fast and easy, Effective local advertising with Local Ad Extensions, And more!

Sign up over here.

Forum discussion at AdWords API Forum.



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