I’m looking forward to attending SMX Advanced on Monday and Tuesday. I was just looking through the agenda and realized Matt Cutts will be offering a Q&A. According to the who’s coming list there’s a limited amount of SMX Advanced attendees so I could actually squeeze in a few questions. I know I’ve had countless questions for the guy in the past, but I’m drawing blanks at the moment. If you’ve got some questions shoot me an email. I’ll post some notes after the conference.

It appears SMX Advanced tickets are sold out, but SMX general Expo tickets are still available. Anyone else from Utah going? It’s always nice to go to a networking party with someone that’s not there only for the free booze. ;-)

Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 1 p.m. OrangeSoda is having an official ribbon cutting ceremony for the office with the Orem City Mayor and other government officials and local business leaders. Following the ribbon cutting is an open-house for clients and colleagues from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Please invite your families to come between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. for pizza, dessert, and lots of orange soda!

Check out DigitalIQ magazine to learn a little more about what we’re doing.

Google 49.93%
Yahoo! Web Sites 12.21%
Google U.K. 9.50%
MSN 6.89%
Google AdSense for Content 3.31%
Google Canada 3.28%
AOL 1.47%
Ask 1.17%
Google Germany 1.02%
Yahoo! Web Sites U.K. 0.95%
MSN U.K. 0.91%
AOL U.K. 0.71%
Google Italy 0.62%
Google India 0.60%
Dogpile 0.57%
Google France 0.52%
Google Spain 0.49%
Google Netherlands 0.39%
Google Sweden 0.33%
Google Venezuela 0.32%
Google Ireland 0.29%
Google New Zealand 0.25%
AltaVista 0.24%
Google Belgium 0.23%
MSN Australia 0.21%
Froogle 0.20%
Google Poland 0.20%
Yahoo! Web Sites Canada 0.19%
Google South Africa 0.17%
Google Japan 0.15%
Microsoft Live Search 0.15%
Search.com 0.14%
Google Switzerland 0.13%
Yahoo! Categories 0.13%
Excite 0.12%
ThomasNet 0.11%
Yahoo! Web Sites Australia 0.10%
Google Austria 0.10%
Google Finland 0.09%
Overture 0.09%
Google Norway 0.09%
Google Israel 0.08%
Netscape 0.07%
Google Portugal 0.06%
Google Romania 0.06%
Yahoo! Web Sites Mexico 0.06%
MetaCrawler 0.06%
Yahoo! Web Sites Singapore 0.05%
Mamma 0.05%
Yahoo! Web Sites France 0.04%
Open Directory Categories (dmoz.org) 0.04%
Lycos 0.04%
MSN Spain 0.04%
All the Web 0.04%
Google Indonesia 0.04%
MSN Sweden 0.03%
Google Russia 0.03%
MSN New Zealand 0.03%
HotBot 0.03%
Ask U.K. 0.02%
TOnline (Germany) 0.02%
Google Bulgaria 0.02%
Yahoo! Web Sites Italy 0.02%
Yahoo! Web Sites Germany 0.02%
Yahoo! Web Sites Spain 0.02%
Google Lithuania 0.02%
Go Network (Infoseek) 0.02%
Viola (France) 0.02%
Yahoo! Web Sites Argentina 0.02%
MSN France 0.02%
MSN South Africa 0.02%
Yahoo! Web Sites Spanish 0.02%
AltaVista U.K. 0.02%
MSN Germany 0.01%
AltaVista Sweden 0.01%
Google Kenya 0.01%
AOL Canada 0.01%
Looksmart 0.01%
MSN Netherlands 0.01%
MSN Norway 0.01%
Goo (Japan) 0.01%
AOL France 0.01%
MSN Singapore 0.01%
MSN Denmark 0.01%
MSN Brazil 0.01%
Yahoo! Web Sites Brazil 0.01%
Yahoo! Web Sites India 0.01%
Yahoo! Categories U.K. 0.01%
Yahoo! Web Sites Japan 0.01%
FreeNet (Germany) 0.01%
MSN Belgium / Dutch 0.01%
Yahoo! Categories Canada 0.01%
Excite U.K. 0.01%
Yandex (Russia) 0.01%
AltaVista Italy 0.01%
Google China 0.01%

The person in this position will be responsible for implementing and managing Organic Search campaigns. This person will be responsible for researching keywords that are appropriate to the market, determining the best optimization techniques, and incorporating these techniques into the clients’ websites.
Will work closely with clients to achieve desired results. The SEO Guru will be responsible for providing ongoing management of all subscribers including reporting to the client on results of their campaign, SEO recommendations and delivery of assigned program deliverables.

Required skills:
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Experience and understanding of link building.
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Able to remain up-to-date with competition and industry trends through trade publications, blogs, etc to assess the potential impact of industry events on the clients’ websites.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Orange Soda was founded by a group of Pay Per Click industry pioneers in the late 90’s. We have managed tens of thousands of campaigns of all sizes, and in all industries. This is a full-time position in Orem, Utah.

Please contact me if you are interested.

I noticed “search history” placed in the serps today. This may have been around for a week or months, however, I haven’t come across any news on the subject. Long story…but, I login to my google account on one machine while performing searches on another so I don’t notice many changes to personalized search.

Take a look at this image.

The HTML tips (mouseover text) show the link from “companies-of-interest” directing to http://www.google.com/searchhistory/lookup?q=label:%22companies-of-intereset%22. Interestingly enough, “companies-of-interest” is one of my bookmarks. Hmmm … those search junkies out there will probably catch on to the relevance.