Danny Sullivan

Some thoughts about The Verge article on SEO

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I found myself part of The Verge’s article about SEO today, and I wanted to address some of the things that are specific to me. For background, this is my personal blog. What I’m writing here in this post isn’t officially from Google. No one at Google has reviewed it. These are my personal thoughts. […]

Lessons & Thoughts On My Five Year Anniversary Of Starting A New Business

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Five years ago, I found myself heading down an unexpected path, starting a new business to carry on the work I had been doing writing and speaking about search engines and search marketing. On this anniversary, a few thoughts on life along the way. My First Founder’s Story For those unfamiliar, I’ve been covering search […]

Twitter Address: Now Mandatory For Business Cards?

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> I’ve been without business cards for about seven months now, and I’m finally gotten around to getting new ones printed. In doing so, I realized I wanted my Twitter address on my card. Last time I had some printed, at the end of 2005, I don’t even think I had a Twitter account! But […]

Embargoes, Prebriefings & Exclusives

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For those who aren’t aware, much news is “embargoed,” which means a news publication receives information ahead of an agreed release date. There are good reasons for embargoes. But they sometimes get broken, which can be frustrating for those other publications that play by the rules. Michael Arrington today at TechCrunch has had his frustration […]

SEM No Longer A Boys Club?

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Jacqueline Dooley sent me a link to a nice piece she did looking at what it was like attending SES back in 2000 — the very first New York show, and only the second SES ever held — compared to the massive event last week. From that, I spotted Rebecca Lieb’s Search Chicks piece, talking about how SES and […]

First Webinar Next Week & My New SMX Conference

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A bunch of people started reading to keep up with what I’m doing in my post-Search Engine Watch life. I mentioned my Search Engine Land site already but realize I forgot to post about Search Marketing Expo and Search Marketing Now. Search Marketing Expo will be a conference series of my own, with the first event […]

My New Search Site: Search Engine Land

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In News On My Plans For Next Year, I said that I would be starting a new search blog. I now have more news on that to pass along, it will be called Search Engine Land, located at searchengineland.com. I plan to continue writing about search with original content as well as commenting about the search news of the day. Joining […]