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Search & Social Awards : Vote Now!

cgseo — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:05:25 +0000

The voting for the 2010 Search & Social Awards is now open! Search & Social is holding this contest to introduce the search marketing & social media community to multiple blogs in various different genres and online marketing disciplines. The final tally will be taken on May 1st and then winners will be announced on May 3rd, during an awards ceremony at the Search & Social Spring Summit in Tampa, FL. Not only are these awards fun, but it also gives you a chance to see how readers feel about your blogs. Search & Social encourages all nominees to promote the contest on your blog and to your followers. Search & Social Awards Categories include : SEO Blog PPC Blog Search News Blog Link Building Blog Web Analytics Blog ORM Blog CRO Blog Copyrighting Blog Local Search Blog Social Media Blog Best Link Bait of 2009/2010 Affiliate Marketing Blog Search Marketing Community Best SMM Blog Best Blog For Bloggers Best Blog About Facebook Blog About Twitter Vote and Rate your favorite blogs in Search Marketing & Social Media AND if you have been nominated, don’t forget to blog about it to tell your readers to vote for you AND add a badge to your site! Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Search & Social Awards : Vote Continue reading →

Winner of the Search & Social Spring Summit Grand Prize

cgseo — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:12:52 +0000

With the conference being a little over a week away, we are stoked about the 80 degree weather that we foresee for the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit . While listening to Todd Malicoat from Market Motive speak, you might even get a chance to see Loren Baker jumping for joy as he sees dolphins swimming by our conference hall. On April 15, 2010, we closed our VIP Contest and have finally gotten a winner. Congratulations to David Alecock for winning the Grand Prize to the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit! David has won a complimentary pass to attend the conference, complimentary airfare, a free hotel stay at the Doubletree Guest Suites and $500 in cold hard cash! David will be able to leave with business connections in affiliate marketing, social media marketing, online reputation management, paid search and search engine optimization. He will learn outsourcing secrets on how to grow his business and spend the rest of his life on the beach. For the speaker lineup and the schedule of the two-day event, please go here . Also remember to book your stay at the Doubletree Guest Suites for a special rate of $109/night valid until Friday, April 23, 2010. The 2010 Search & Social Awards will be coming soon. We will let you know when you can vote for your favorite blog and hear the winners announced at the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Winner of the Search & Social Spring Summit Grand Continue reading →

And the winners for the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit are…

cgseo — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:42:56 +0000

We are all excited that the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit is less than a month away! With 52 tickets left, we are quickly approaching our capacity limit. With topics such as Doing Business on Twitter & Facebook and Outsourcing Secrets: Cut Costs & Spend More Time on the Beach, you really don’t want to miss it. We have 5 free tickets (valued at $525) to give away. One has been given to our Twitter contest winner, Ben Cook. Now, I am proud to announce our YouTube, Your Story and SEOtini contest winners. Drum roll please… 1) The YouTube contest winner goes to Ethan Stanislawski! Ethan posted a video response on YouTube about his first day on the job doing SEO. He tells of how the Paris Hilton DUI incident, CNN and the Daily Show made him realize that SEO is about marketing. 2) The Your Story contest winner is Joshua Titsworth! Joshua told his story about how he got into internet marketing. He went from working at a non-profit organization to being called “The Repair Man” to being hired by another company for his experience (where he gained from self-taught SEO). In 2007 I started working for a non-profit in downtown Kansas City, KS. I was hired with the directive to help raise funds, write press releases, and update the website. The more I got involved with the website the more I liked it and the more time I started to give it. After the website was looking better than it did before (I was stuck using Frontpage ‘98), a board member complained to me I was spending too much time with it. If they can’t find us what good are you? So I started looking for cheap ways to market NPOs online. I came across seomoz and few other sites. I was a little shocked at first, not at the material, but at how quickly I was able to read and understand it. In the past it has taken me hours of reading and homework to comprehend what was in front of me. With the information about SEO I could read it, process it, and use it right away. Pretty soon the website was doing well, patients were finding us easily, their mission teams were getting filled and all from the web. After that a board member (a different one from before) asked me to look at his site. I applied the same measures as I took to ours, and the same results took place a few months later. But with all non profits, what is written in the contract is not always what you will do. I was ordered to take a break from the web to focus on facility repair. Pretty soon I was known as the repair man, which I didn’t mind, but I really wanted to do more internet marketing. I ended up leaving that non-profit to get more involved in SEO so I could get a job one day. I applied for everything I could. I had two years of limited experience, but I never got a call back until I applied at Chemidex. They called me, and I made it down to the final interview. My boss told me on my first day the deciding factor was so much experience, as it was they wanted someone with a heart for SEO and someone young enough in his/her career that they could get their start with Chemidex. I’ll admit, I’m still pretty new in this field. But I love it, and I can’t imagine not working in this industry. 3) The winner of the SEOtini contest is Vivian Hoang! Vivian has given us an award-winning recipe for our signature drink, The SEOtini. Everyone who attend the Search & Social Spring Summit will get a complimentary round of this drink. 2 parts Grey Goose vodka 1 oz Blue Caracao 1 oz Cointreau 1 oz Champagne Mix the vodka and liqueurs in a mixing glass. Add ice, stir to chill, and then strain into a martini glass. Top with champagne, stir gently, and garnish with a lemon peel. Congratulations to Ethan, Joshua and Vivian for each winning a ticket to the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit. We have one last contest (THE GRAND PRIZE) to be announced on April 15 th , 2010. That’s exactly ONE WEEK from today! You can still enter here . For questions or more info about the conference, you can reach Thao Tran at thao@searchandsocial.com or (813) 932-4SEO. Please check out this video on the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit: Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . And the winners for the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit Continue reading →

70 Seats Left for Search & Social Spring Summit : Register Now

cgseo — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:13:51 +0000

Only 70 seats are left for Search & Social Spring Summit (formerly IM Spring Break), the OFFICIAL Conference of Search Engine Journal , which is to be held in Tampa, FL May 3rd and 4th. With 70 seats left, low ticket prices, an increible speaking lineup, 3 meals a day & lots of snacks, nonstop networking events and free shuttle to and from the airport, you will not want to miss out on Search & Social Spring Summit 2010 . Search & Social Spring Summit is one of the most cost effective conferences in the search & social media marketing space with a ticket cost of only $525 for the two day event. Top industry experts have been recruited to give the best information in topics, trends, strategies and possibilities. There are only 70 seats left and 34 days to register until S&S Spring Summit! Search & Social Spring Summit Speakers include : Greg Boser Founder, WebGuerrilla, LLC Tony Adam of MySpace Rae Hoffman, CEO of Outspoken Media Neal Rodriguez, SEO for the Nielsen Company Chris Winfield, President of 10e20 Brent Csutoras, Social Media Marketing Expert Dave Szetela, SEO of Clix Marketing More Search & Social Summit Speakers Search & Social Spring Summit will of course be moderated by the founders of Search & Social and Search Engine Journal : Loren Baker Jordan Kasteler Dave Snyder Attendees can expect to learn, at this affordable conference, the latest trends and successful marketing approaches by speakers who are headliners at other conferences costing a thousand dollars or more. With a waterfront view and in an air-conditioned outdoor complex, it will be exclusive to the first 120 registrants : Register Now . Business Networking Continue reading →

Twitter Contest! Win a Free Ticket to Search & Social Spring Summit

cgseo — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:51:55 +0000

You have heard of Team Jolie and Team Aniston. You have picked sides with Team Edward or Team Jacob. Now it is time to make your own team. Today, gather up everyone you know and get them on Twitter. Get as many people as you can to be on your team. Have them tweet your team name , twitter name , and the hashtag #ssss . We will count the total number of tweets that you get when we stop the contest at midnight (12 a.m. EST) today. Example 1: Team Thao @thaott #ssss Example 2: RT Team Thao @thaott #ssss Example 3: Any tweet that includes the above two examples The person with the most tweets for their team will get a complimentary ticket to the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit . This ticket will include access into the eight speaker sessions, networking with experts and businesses from across the country, admission to casino night and calypso night, and breakfast, lunch and dinner on both days of the conference. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Twitter Contest! Win a Free Ticket to Search & Social Spring Continue reading →

Contest #3 Youtube Contest – Win a Free Ticket to Search & Social Spring Summit

cgseo — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:06:17 +0000

Hey everyone!! It’s that time of the year again for the Spring Summi t and we have some great contests going on! With the success of our Twitter #team contest (which is currently going on until midnight), we decided to roll out ANOTHER contest today. If you’re interested in winning a free ticket, then try your luck on this one! It’ll be fun. Our new Youtube channel with the contest can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/user/seotini. On this, you’ll have the chance to reply to the video that I’m putting up. I ask a very simple question- what funny/weird/strange/awesome experiences have you had thanks to social media? I’ll start the video off with one of my own. Simply send a response to our video and get your friends to rate you or leave comments. Whoever has the most votes wins a free Search & Social Spring Summit ticket! Now, I don’t want to get any comments about how ditzy I sound on this video- I swear I don’t sound like that in real life. Something about webcams just doesn’t flow well with me. I recorded many a video and, sadly, this was the best one. I happened to ramble alot on it but I hope you hang on through the whole video so you can post your video response! In addition to what I said in the video, it hit me after I recorded it that something else happened to me on social media that would have been far more fun to mention. My bosses are trying to pimp me out to fight a bear during the summit. Ahhh yes, you can probably find the multiple posts due to the magic of Twitter hash-tags (#SSSS) showcasing their eagerness to see me duke it out with a live (and heavily clawed) animal. It started out as a ping, which turned into a tweet, which turned into multiple re-tweets…. now, this might be a fly by night rumor, or it might be true… but either way, I guess you’ll have to upload your video response and try to win a free ticket to find out Here was my response- please visit the SEOtini channel on YouTube for the official instructions! Bear Wrestling for Contest #3 As you can tell from my video there are absolutely no standards for how you record it. Use whatever webcam yo have- or even your iPhone if you want. Be honest, don’t hold back. Did you meet your boyfriend through social media? Say it. Did you get stalked through social media? Do tell. But only if it’s not serious. I don’t like hearing about harm happening to people via the internet… I’m talking about maybe having someone who loved to read your website constantly and always left you comments but you didn’t know who they are. I guess I used the work “stalk” really loosely here. Did you win something or get randomly picked for a prize thanks to your social media account? Are you that girl that Conan O’Brien singled out to follow on Twitter and now you’re famous!? Remember- the way to get the most votes/ratings is to just have something completely unexpected. I want to hear EVERYTHING and ANYTHING! Make them fun. The contest ends April 1, 2010. This ticket will include access into the eight speaker sessions, networking with experts and businesses from across the country, admission to casino night and calypso night, and breakfast, lunch and dinner on both days of the conference. Good luck to you all, and I’ll see you at the Summit I’ll be congratulating our winner personally. Perhaps I’ll use the location finder on Twitter to find you so you have another story to tell PS: Check back to the SEOtini Youtube Channel as well as our SEOtini blog . They’ll be some fun updates coming up! Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Contest #3 Youtube Contest – Win a Free Ticket to Search & Social Spring

Win a VIP Trip to Search & Social Spring Summit 2010!

cgseo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:17:30 +0000

Have you ever wanted to attend a premier industry event as a VIP, get inside secrets from industry leaders, and get treated like a rockstar ? Well this week Search & Social are giving you several ways to make this a reality. For the launch of the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit (formerly known as IM Spring Break), the organizers are giving you all kinds of ways to attend the event on their dime. The biggest one is going to be VIP package to the event. One FREE pass to the Search & Social Spring Summit Complimentary airfare to and from Tampa, FL Paid hotel accommodations during Search & Social Spring Summit $500 in spending money All of these prizes, the entire VIP Trip, is valued at $2,000! To enter, you must visit our Search & Social VIP Contest . Once you sign up you will be sent a promotion code, and whoever gets the most people to sign up for the event using their code gets the VIP prize. That’s it! No fluff. Use your mad skills as an internet marketing guru to kill the competition, and earn your VIP pass to one of the best marketing events that took place last year. We will fly you into Tampa, FL, where the nearby beaches are always featured on the Travel Channel and are listed as the top beaches in the United States. You will check in to the Doubletree Guest Suites that is right on the water and five minutes from the airport. With $500 in spending money , you can save it and put it in the bank, spend it at Mons Venus or go to the two nearby malls 2.8 miles from the hotel. The most important part of the package is your pass to the summit. This includes getting access into the eight speaker sessions, networking with experts and businesses from across the country, an invitation to the VIP party, admission to casino night and calypso night, and breakfast, lunch and dinner on both days of the conference. The VIP Trip will be sponsored by Second Step Search , an SEO workflow solution, and Search & Social . The contest starts today and will go on until April 15, 2010. Enter to win and see what it feels like to receive VIP treatment from Search & Social. You might even find yourself having your own SEOtini girl serving you lunch for the day. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Win a VIP Trip to Search & Social Spring Summit Continue reading →

15% Off Search & Social Spring Summit for SEJ Readers!

cgseo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:19:00 +0000

I am very happy to announce the countdown to Search & Social Spring Summit 2010, the official search marketing and social media conference of Search Engine Journal! Search & Social Spring Summit 2010 is the second annual conference from Search & Social, the team behind Search Engine Journal, DailySEOTip, IMBroadcast and various other search marketing projects. With a lineup of speakers and experts that includes Search Engine Journal editors and some of the sharpest minds in the search marketing industry, Search & Social Spring Summit 2010 is a CAN’T MISS conference you really must attend. Search Engine Journal is also offering a special added discount to our readers! Just enter the code sej when you register and you will save 15% off our ticket price of only $525! Attendees can expect to learn, at this affordable conference, the latest trends and successful marketing approaches by speakers. Furthermore, the theme of the Search & Social Summit Conference Series is INTERACTION and networking. Not only will you listen to informative presentations, but you will also be able to network and interact with the moderators, presenters and sponsors during and after sessions. The conference will not just be two days of sessions and networking, but Search & Social will also provide 3 meals a day and plenty of snacks for all attendees. We will open each day with a breakfast buffet, a lunch, group dinner & happy hour, and parties & networking events that run all night! Search & Social will keep you fat & happy during the conference with free food, open bars (special happy hours each night) and a bar & refreshments in the conference room . With a waterfront view and in an air-conditioned outdoor complex, it will be exclusive to the first 120 registrants. This allows a smaller and more relaxed atmosphere where attendees can network and market their companies on the spot. This is not to mention the 50+ business contacts that they can walk away with at the end of the conference. There will also be informative advanced material and a Q&A forum to push it further. Chris Winfield , Todd Malicoat , Brent Csutoras , and Rae Hoffman will be returning to the podium with topics such as Facebook, Twitter and Your Business and Link Building Tactics. And of course the founders of Search & Social; Dave Snyder, Loren Baker and Jordan Kasteler, will be sharing some researched SEO and internet marketing strategies. The Search and Social Spring Summit 2010 will be held at the Doubletree Guest Suites in Tampa, FL on May 3-4, 2010. This two-day conference is a premier forum that will bring together a search marketing community who are eager to learn and open to networking with other like-minded individuals. REGISTER TODAY for Search & Social Spring Summit! But don’t forget your Search Engine Journal coupon code sej when you register and you will save 15%! Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . 15% Off Search & Social Spring Summit for SEJ Continue reading →