This year was the first time I have been to MozCon. I can honestly say that I hope it won’t be my last!

As I was sitting and listening to the speakers, I thought to my self “I wonder how many people will be writing recap blogs about this?” Then Dr. Pete Meyers gave me a great idea while going over his presentation “How to Never Run Out of Great Ideas.” Now, when I say he gave an idea, I just mean that something in his presentation made something click in my head.

I figured there will be 101 different “What I learned from MozCon” and “MozCon 2014 Recap” posts, so I had to come up with something different, something unique, something no one had done before. With that, I came up with THE idea. And here it is.

29 (literal) Takeaways from MozCon 2014

Top 25 Most Influential PPC Experts of 2014

 
PPC Hero just published their yearly “Top 25 Most Influential PPC Experts” list for 2014. Congratulations to our very own James Svoboda for making the list again at #15 this year. Up 1 from #16 last year.

HeroConf 2014 in Austin, Texas

 
This week I have the honor of presenting at the HeroConf in Austin, TX in the “More or Less: Flexible Bidding Strategies” session. My presentation for this session is entitled “PPC Bidding Strategies: from Foundational to Flexible“.

Here is the full powerpoint presentation for you to reference. I hope you enjoy it!

Last week I had the honor of presenting at the SEMpdx’s SearchFest in Portland, Oregon in the “#Fail Free PPC” session. My presentation for this session was entitled “Creating Linear Models that Lead to Successful PPC Campaigns“.

Here is the full powerpoint presentation for you to reference. I hope you enjoy it!

WebRanking’s Guide for Eating & Drinking in Portland

So, you might ask, what is WebRanking’s most tenured non-Svoboda contributing this year to make Searchfest awesome?

Glad you asked.

It’s the start of a brand new year which means new beginnings and resolutions. For some of you this is also the time you commit (once again) to making content a priority for your website and blog.

So to prevent another year of unfulfilled resolutions and empty blog posts, we present the 5 Hard Truths You Need to Know Before Committing to Content Development.

#1. It Isn’t Supposed to be Easy

If good content was easy to create, you’d already have a blog filled with great posts and probably wouldn’t need to be reading this article.

The truth is that quality content is time consuming (don’t ask how long it has taken me to write this post). Good content requires creativity, diligence and commitment. Producing consistently good content should frequently be a pain in the ass.

But if you are a marketer, isn’t that why you got into this business? Didn’t you want to be creative, and produce consistently great work while adapting to new trends and strategies?

Minnesota Welcomes You!

To help you prepare for your next content outing, we’ve decided to help stock your tackle box with some fresh content bait. So we did some scouting and put together a calendar of Minnesota events to give you some ideas and help inspire your social media and content marketing for 2014.

Cheers from WebRanking!

The Portland crew did not join us this year. We were fortunate to have them in Minnesota last year as all the stars aligned and schedules worked out perfectly to have them with us. Alas, the stars were crooked this year. But that didn’t stop us!

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The 2013 Local Search Ranking Factors is released

And once again our very own James Svoboda was asked to participate as one of the experts for this annual survey.

I had the honor of presenting at the MnSearch event “Search Snippets #8: The Pro’s Positive Perspective on All Things Google+” in Minneapolis, MN. The presentation I gave had to be slimmed down to fit within 20’ish minutes. Here is the full version presentation entitled “Google+: The Unsocial Network (for marketers)“.

The basis of this presentation is to look at Google+ from a unique perspective. It shows Google+’s impact on Google’s search engine and advertising offerings, as well as how businesses and marketing professionals can use Google+ effectively.

I hope you enjoy it!