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This is a video interview with Ken Jurina, the President and CEO of Epiar, and SEM firm. We met up with Ken at Pubcon 2009, and decided to ask him about what’s going on in the world of PPC these days.
Ken discussed the importance of negative keywords, and how they’re integral to a well-managed PPC [...]

Meet Rae Hoffman (aka Sugar Rae), CEO of Outspoken Media. We met up with Rae and Pubcon 2009, and sat down with her for a moment to chat about onsite SEO tactics.
Rae discussed how companies should split up their resources between onsite and offsite SEO. She also delved into the importance of interlinking, and what [...]

Vanessa Fox is probably most well known for launching Google Webmaster Central, but she has since moved on to found Nine By Blue, a company that examines online customer engagement and acquisition. Well, we caught up with Vanessa at Pubcon 2009, and sat down with her to discuss recent Google Caffeine and other recent developments [...]

We also ran into Shawn Collins at Pubcon 2009. Shawn is the orgranizer of another conference, Affiliate Summit, as well as the publisher of FeedFront Magazine.
Shawn sat down with us to discuss how affiliate marketing has evolved over the last year, as well as how it’s responding to the economy. In a nutshell, Shawn sees [...]

Another one of the interesting folks had a chance to catch up with at Pubcon 2009 was Jim Boykin of We Build Pages. Although Jim is known as one of the best link builders in the world, he has other things on his mind these days, including Google Caffeine. Jim took a few minutes to [...]

This is the second half of our interview with Charles Calabrese, the Product Manager for buy.at. In it, Charles discusses how the European and North American online markets are both different and similar. The main point of divergence, in fact, turns out to be the most popular ad models.

Charles Calabrese is the Product Manager for buy.at, one of the largest affiliate networks in the world. We caught up with him at Pubcon 2009, and decided to ask him how the affiliate space was shaping up in the tail-end of 2009. In this clip, Charles shares his thoughts on how the affiliate marketing industry [...]

While at Pubcon 2009, we also caught up with Lee Odden, the CEO of Top Rank Marketing. Lee discussed how search and social media are causing the world of PR to evolve, and how businesses have an opportunity to connect with journalists who rely on social media and search to find authority sources. Essentially, the [...]

After chatting with Matt Cutts about his hair cut last week at Pubcon 2009, the Head of Google’s Web Spam Team shared with us his latest experience with web spam trends. Some of the things he covered is how spammers are exploiting Wordpress, and how webmasters can use Google Webmaster Tools such as Fetch-as-Google-Bot, Keyword [...]

This year at Pubcon 2009, we got to meet Matt Cutts, the Head of Google’s Webspam Team. And while at Pubcon 2009, Matt Cutts got a hair cut. In this first installment of our chat with Matt, he took a few minutes to tell us all about it, and why he did it.
In the second [...]