The next DFW SEM Association meeting is tonight, and local search engine marketers will meet to discuss brand and reputation management in search and social.
The meeting is at the Renaissance Hotel in Richardson, TX, and starts at 6:30.
Visit the DFWSEM web site for more information, or follow @dfwsem on Twitter.
Forrester Research has issued their 2009 Search Wave report, which assesses top search engine marketing agencies on their full-service SEM capabilities, using the standard industry definition of both paid search, and natural search engine optimization.
iCrossing came in at #1 for not just one component, but for both paid search and search engine optimization, beating out all other agencies in the comparison.
Here is a quote from the 2009 Forrester Research Wave Report:
“iProspect, iCrossing, and 360i lead the pack… In fact, iCrossing bests the others in both paid search and SEO because of its open bid management platform, its use of market mix models to aid enterprises in paid search planning, and its heritage of optimizing dynamic sites for natural search results.”
iCrossing has made the full report available online – click the link below to read the full evaluation:
Forrester Research Names iCrossing Best in Both Paid and Natural Search
As a search channel strategy director for iCrossing, I can say that we are very proud of this distinction. Congrats to the iCrossing team – well deserved!
iProspect, 360i, IMPAQT, Razorfish, Reprise Media, and OneUpWeb were also among the firms evaluated in this research report.
The next DFW SEM Association meeting is tomrrow night at the Renaissance Hotel in Richardson. The speaker will be Pubcon organizer and WebmasterWorld publisher Brett Tabke, who will be discussing search engine marketing, and also Pubcon Austin in March.
Corporate and individual memberships are available at the door, and the general public is welcome.
Go to the DFW SEM home page or blog for more information.
I was recently interviewed for a sidebar article in Smart Business magazine, a unique publication that customizes articles for 20-plus major markets, and is targeted at business executives. The interview in the link below was run as part of a bigger feature in the print edition. My uderstanding was that this was released across multiple markets, but I have inculded a link for the Dallas version below.
http://www.sbnonline.com/Local/Article/15671/71/0/3_Questions.aspx
My latest Search Insider column takes a look at the origins of a few key terms in the digitalmarketing lexicon: SEM, SEA, and SEO. It was spurred by Bob Heyman’s article in Search Engine Land last week.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
“A story last week on Search Engine Land (“Who Coined The Term SEO?”, by Bob Heyman) got me to thinking about the somewhat nebulous origins of the term “search engine optimization”, or “SEO”, as well other common search terms such as “SEM” and “SEA”. There are a number of claimants and facts around the term “SEO”, so I revisited a few of them, and found a few additional interesting facts along the way.
Before I go into the SEO claims, the origins of the terms “SEM” and “SEA” are pretty clear. In 2001 Danny Sullivan achieved a consensus with the readership of Search Engine Watch on the term “search engine marketing”, noting that the organic-centric SEO no longer covered the full range of tactics in the search space, given the rise of pay-per-click. “The phrase “search engine marketing”, or “SEM”, very logically covered a wide range of tactics related to search engine visibility, and somewhat relegated SEO as a subtheme within the overall practice of search marketing (see “Congratulations, You’re A Search Engine Marketer”).”
Read the rest here:
http://www.mediapost.com/blogs/search_insider/?p=891
