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Last night, our company was honored by winning the NEOSA Best SEO/SEM Company award. NEOSA is an industry trade association located in Cleveland Ohio.

The competition was against some of the most serious web marketing companies in the Greater Cleveland area. Additionally, the Northern Ohio area is lucky to have some of the finest search engine marketing talent anywhere in the country.

The secret to the all the success of SageRock is the SageRock team. We have some of the most innovative, integrity-filled people you will find in any industry. They always take total ownership of all the projects they are involved in. Achieving world-class search engine marketing results means a great deal to each and every one of them. I couldn’t ask for better people to have on a team.

So, thank you NEOSA. And thank you SageRock!

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What are you doing tomorrow?

Well, if you would like a taste of the best search engine marketing conference in the country, I suggest checking out Search Engine Watch Live! Columbus - May 9th, 2007.

It’s going to be a great show with a lot of super information.

You can learn about it here:

Search Engine Watch Live! Columbus – May 9th, 2007 – The Premier Conference for Search Engine Marketing & Optimization

And there’s a discussion forum on the topic here:
SEW Live! in Columbus, OH - May 9, 2007

I strongly suggest you check it out if you have the time. You’ll be glad you did.

I’ll be speaking in the afternoon along with a bunch of other really great people.

I’m extremely proud and excited to let you know that I’m now an expert columnist at Searchenginewatch.com.

This site has been the definitive search engine news resource site since the onset of this industry.

My focus in going to be on “Link Love.” This means I’m going to be discussing the ins and outs of viral marketing and what the link building world is all about these days.

It’s an extremely interesting area of expertise. Understanding this arena will help you generate untold numbers of new visitors to your web site with little or no cost.

So, check out my first article. I’ll be writing on this topic every other Thursday:
Prevention is the Best Medicine: Don’t Let Viral Campaigns Get Sick and Die

Studies: B-to-B Search Is Poised For Continued Growth

“It appears that, today, search marketing plays a relatively small role in the overall B-to-B marketing picture, but the research also reveals that things are starting to change…”

I wanted to thank everyone that came to our booth at the Chicago Search Engine Strategies 2006 show. We all had a great time and met a lot of great people.

If you are coming to our blog because of the show, thank you very much for visiting. If you have an rss reader, please consider adding our feed. We don’t post a lot. But when we do post we make a big effort to make the content useful and interesting. We are putting up video on a regular basis and are looking forward to doing a lot more in 2007.

Thank you once again,
Sage

Today is exciting because I’m heading out to the Cleveland and Akron offices of the Brouse McDowell Law Firm to talk about how to search.

I’ve printed these two pages for them:
Go over the Google Cheat Sheet

Review Advanced Operators

I also want to talk about these items:
Google Alerts
Technorati

Poodle Predictor - See your site like Google does. Simulate search engines and predict your Google listings.

Keyword Frequency Counter by SageRock.com

And then I want to talk about the new rss subscribe feature of IE7.

Searchenginewatch.com just reported on the most recent search engine use stats:

Search Popularity Stats, Sliced & Diced
It’s interesting because Google’s reach swings anywhere from 45.4%(comScore) to 60.9%(Hitwise).

Web Increasingly Used For Local Service Business Searches

Among more than 2,800 consumer responses, 70% had used the Internet to search for a local service business and 46% did so in the past three months.

Today I’m doing a live all day blog over at Cleveland SEO

I’m doing a lot of posts. But I’m also going to try to do some video and pictures.

I’ll be covering the whole event and featuring the recommendations made at the event.

So, check it out!

Joel Cheesman from OASEO.com - an SEO job search community came by and did an interview with me. You can check it out here:

If you are looking for seo people or are a search engine optimization specialist be sure to check out OASEO.com - an SEO job search community.
Thanks Joel!