Search Talk Live Search Engine Marketing & SEO Podcast

Help us welcome Marwa Greaves! Marwa is the Team Manager for the North American Lead Nurturing and Automation Team at HubSpot. She is a lover of all things email and has years of experience in both the B2B and B2C email marketing world. Specializing in email marketing, Marwa has long understood that being a great email marketer doesn’t just mean being on top of the latest email trends. It’s understanding what will be most effective for your audience — and for any competent SEO practitioner in any industry, this is vital information to know.

We’re happy to welcome expert international SEO consultant Dawn Anderson April 18th. Dawn has worked with industry-leading digital marketing agencies and brands on enterprise SEO campaigns across fashion, legal, auto, travel, telecoms, insurance, and gambling. An expert in SEO with a broad understanding of many digital marketing channels and strategy, she is an associate lecturer on Search and Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and a European, UK and Northern Digital Search Awards judge. Specialties include SEO Strategy Development, SEO Consultancy, PHP, Drupal, WordPress, MySQL, Javascript, SEO website architecture & SEO driven web development, search website architecture planning, implementation, link research/clean up, advanced link analysis & competitive landscape review.

This week, we’re proud to welcome Jeff Beale to STL! As a best-selling author and marketing strategist, Jeff helps businesses leverage their knowledge to gain authority status in their industry, then uses authority marketing to generate higher converting leads. With over 12 years of experience in the digital marketing space and over 230 talks on marketing to his name, Jeff has helped companies, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, increase their bottom line with his unique marketing optimization automation strategies. Companies that have benefited from these strategies include Turner Broadcast, The Home Depot, AT&T, Apartment Guide as well as several other well-known brands. Educating the business community on my 4 Cs of marketing is Jeff life’s work, and he’s been honored to do this by conducting an ongoing series of webcasts, podcasts, as well as speaking events such as ClickZ and Thrive.

This week on Search Talk Live we’re honored to welcome Upasna Gautam—Manager of Digital Strategy at Geek Powered Studios, a behind-the-scenes, yet renowned SEO specialist, and expert in digital strategies relating to semantic search, e-commerce optimization, data analytics, and online consumer journey analysis. With an academic background in biomedical sciences from Michigan State University, Upasna is known for her firmly quantitative approach to online marketing, using the principles of the scientific method to analyze algorithms and processes while providing a pragmatic, logical system of organization to search. Over the years she has presented her thoughts and ideas at various high-profile events including SMX London, Pubcon (Las Vegas and Austin), and Digital Summit (Phoenix, Atlanta, and Dallas). In Fall 2015 and 2016 she also participated as a guest lecturer at the University of North Texas.

Join us Tuesday, March 28th, as we keep making 2017 our best year. Mike Moran joins Search Talk Live to discuss How to Improve Your Website Search. Mike is one of the most distinguished guests we’ve ever had as he brings his expertise in internet marketing, search technology, social media, text analytics, and web metrics to show. Mike is a certified speaking professional making regular speaking appearances. Serving 30 years at IBM, Mike served in several executive-level technical positions. He now serves as a senior strategist for Converseon, is a senior consultant for SoloSegment, and is the founder of Biznology. You can check out Mike’s latest book, Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data to Guide Your Content Marketing, and read his latest article contributions as a featured columnist to the Rutgers Business School blog and Business2Community.com where Mike shares his expert digital marketing advice.

Search Talk Live welcomes Keith Goode back to the microphone to discuss the unique perspective of In-House SEO. Having moved back to an in-house role after working with SEOClarity as the Chief SEO Evangelist, Keith will talk about the comparative benefits and risks of being a large enterprise, the greater need to educate internal resources, the psychology of selling SEO and showing success, and how agencies and in-house SEOs can work together. Keith has over a decade of experience in SEO, most of which has been spent in-house with companies like HomeAway, BDX, SpareFoot, and Dell. Currently, he is the SEO Manager for IBM’s Watson Customer Engagement. He also is a regular speaker for Pubcon in the U.S. and Cross Forum in Japan.

Michael Stricker, our STL guest this week, is an international digital marketer and agency consultant with hundreds of campaigns delivering millions of impressions to brands such as 2Modern, Aeropostale, BET, Dell, GolfSmith, JG Wentworth, Job.com, Johns Hopkins University, RE/MAX, Toshiba, SEMrush and Herringtons. He’s been called “a creative mind with a fearsome grasp of analytic skills”, and we can’t help but agree. Now at BeyondROI, Mike marries exhaustive research and analytics with actionable strategies, creative concepts, scalable processes, and doable tactics achieve tangible business results.

Mobile use has skyrocketed—and with it, the growth of “micro-moments”. These real-time, intent-rich moments happen when buying decisions are made based on preferences shaped by retailers. Influencing consumer behavior in a glance has never been more important, and has never been easier thanks to the continual reshaping of retail marketing by beacons.

Steven is the CCO at ContentKing. Based out of Brno, the heart of Europe, Steven has been doing SEO for over a decade. He’s worked for companies active in all markets, including the notoriously competitive mortgages and insurances markets. Over the years he learned he prefers dominating niches in recruitment, sports, financial services, and law for smaller, more agile companies. He’s been on all sides of the table: client-side, agency-side, and now as a product company supplying SEOs with tools to make their lives a hell of a lot easier.

Our guest this week, Mark Gorrell, works at SEMrush as the head of education and events. A Penn State alum, he started as a member of the “customer success team” before transitioning to marketing. Along with his team, he makes it his core mission to work with North American universities and provide any tools and assistance they require within the digital marketing spectrum. He travels the country regularly to both speak at universities and attend digital marketing conferences to help promote SEMrush. Outside of SEMrush, Mark also runs his own SEO agency, plays basketball, and enjoys ultimate Frisbee with the occasional video game.

If you do Content Marketing or SEO & want to increase traffic don’t miss the show with Rand Fishkin. tune in Today, at 3:30 EST to find out! Make sure to tune in live Every Tuesday at 3:30 EST.

On our show this week, we’re happy to welcome Pubcon social community manager Melissa Fach. Melissa has been in the SEO and Internet marketing field since 2005. Her educational background includes a B.A. in Psychology and M.A. from the College of Education focusing on mental health. Melissa created SEO Aware LLC in 2007, has served as Managing Editor of Search Engine Journal, and worked as a Moz associate on the community team for over two years.

Setting Up Your Website Presence For Multilingual Marketing with Zeph Snapp

Michael, a marketing technologist, has an extensive background in market research, social strategy, content strategy, analytics, inbound marketing, outbound marketing and on-page SEO. In his role as an SEO and Inbound Marketing industry thought leader, Michael is involved in the development of new tactics and strategies that are used by many across the world.

This week our Search Talk guest is Erin Robbins. Erin brings to the table over a decade of technology marketing, strategy and business intelligence for large enterprises, agencies and startups alike. She has lived and worked around the world including North Carolina, San Francisco, Norway, Hong Kong and more. She has spoken at a variety of conferences and events, contributed articles for nearly every major SEO news outlet, and has been quoted on many nationally recognized news sites.