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Search Expo China Photos

» by David Temple September 13th, 2007 at 7:00 am » Comments (3)


Forbidden City Photos

» by David Temple September 12th, 2007 at 8:19 am » Comments (3)


‘The Lisa’ rules my Facebook comparisons

» by David Temple August 2nd, 2007 at 6:17 pm » Comments (8)

Don’t you people have enough work to do? If so then why is everyone busy sending me the latest Facebook time wasters like this email I got from my friend Sante:
Sante J. Achille sent you this message: I’ve been rating your intellect, wit, drive, sense of humor, and other attributes. See where you stand, [...]



Now here’s a meme that means something

» by David Temple June 4th, 2007 at 3:57 pm » Comments (5)

While I was traveling to China and last week Canada (more about that in a few weeks) I was tagged for a variety of memes. Well I’m not big on memes as I pointed out here even though I wrote a huge post about the “5 things you didn’t know about me” meme. But this [...]



SMX Advanced is underway, learn more from these folks

» by David Temple June 4th, 2007 at 8:05 am » Comments (2)

Danny Sullivan’s new conference SMX Advanced which bills itself as “SMX Advanced is for the experienced search marketer who wants to enjoy sessions conducted at a high-level and continue to stay ahead in the fast changing world of search”, has started today and you can learn more from thanks to these hard working folks. Thank [...]



Find Buffalo creates a local meme

» by David Temple May 2nd, 2007 at 8:48 am » Comments (6)

My last post on memes “Another day, another meme” indicated I was not really excited about answering questions on why I blog or anything else for that matter. In fact I talked myself out of blogging for awhile and concentrated on other things right at a time when I was making wholeseale changes to this [...]



Another day, another meme: 5 reasons I blog

» by David Temple May 2nd, 2007 at 7:06 am » Comments (3)

Okay I’ve been tagged in another blog meme. If you want to follow this meme the good folks at SoloSEO have created a blog meme tracker much like the “5 things you didn’t know about me” meme but this time you can edit it. I’m flattered that the Pope of local search, Paul Jahn, and [...]



SEM Scholarship entry “So You Wanna Be A Search Marketer”

» by David Temple May 2nd, 2007 at 7:05 am » Comments (0)

Andy Beal’s SEM Scholarship contest is well underway and there are some great articles out there. I wanted to give a shout out to my friend and fellow China traveler Nicole St. Martin aka SEMgirl. Nicole has written an article for the contest entitled “So You Wanna Be A Search Marketer” where she talks about [...]



An alien learns seo in the kitchen and Dave saves the world

» by David Temple May 2nd, 2007 at 6:49 am » Comments (3)

Dave thought he was dreaming. Sitting across the kitchen table from him was an alien. An honest to goodness alien, just like everyone describes. A short grey skinned humanoid with large dark bug like eyes and small mouth. “I really must be dreaming”, he said to himself. “This can’t be real”.
Dave was held [...]



Ben Wills takes the social media train to win the SEM Scholarship contest

» by David Temple November 10th, 2006 at 11:37 pm » Comments (0)

Congratulations to Ben Wills,  winner of Marketing Pilgrim’s SEM Scholarship contest. After 4 weeks and 48 entries Ben was declared the winner of the $6,000 in prizes.  The final four contestants’ articles were reviewed by a panel of 9 judges who chose Ben Wills’ article “The Five Pillars of Social Media Marketing” from among the [...]



Eyetools tracks Washington Post home page users

» by David Temple May 8th, 2006 at 1:50 am » Comments (0)

Been busy with some projects, one which brought up http://www.eyetools.com
They did the Google search eye track which revealed the F pattern and declared the golden triangle. They also showed research on various websites including the Washington Post home page. Really like what Greg and the eyetools gang is doing. That adds certified eye tracking analyst [...]