Bas and Roy wlecome back Dom Hodgson to discuss Google Plus, the top-secret social layer that turns all of Google into one giant social network. Dom, Bas and Roy were lucky enough to test out the beta version and we learn what they think of it.
This is the topic Bas and Roy tackle tonight in which they talk with Sean Sewell, Director for Lead Generation for Performance Horizon Group, about Groupon, Google Offers and much more.
Bas and Roy's guest is Liana Li Evans, the author of the award winning social media marketing book, Social Media Marketing: Engaging Strategies for Facebook, Twitter & Other Social Media.
Bas and Roy speak with Jon Henshaw from RavenTools to discuss Ravens integration with Google Webmaster Tools. They also discuss the latest headlines including Schema, Google Voice and more.
From A4U Expo Munich 2011 On Location, Bas discusses brand links, link data and link research with Christopher Cemper of www.cemper.com . Bas also talks to Dixon Jones of Majestic SEO and Stephen Pavlovich of Conversion Factory.
Bas, Roy and guest A4U Expo founder Matthew Wood discuss the news that came out of the Google I/O Conference including the beta of their new music service, the Ice Cream Sandwich and that advancement of the Andoid OS. We also learn about what to expect at A4U Expo Munich including live streaming of sessions and speed networking.
Bas and Roy give their take on version 3 of the Google Commerce Search their search solution for e-commerce websites. They also discuss the SEOBook blog post entitled Reddit Distilled Virante, Yahoo! and the Netherlands-based Optimum Research.
Tonight on the show we have Jorg Ruis of The Next
Bas and Roy have a Social Media Marketing discussion with Li Evans author of the Social Media Marketing book and co-founder of LiBeck Integrated Marketing. She follows up on her appearance at SES London 2011 where she spoke on subjects like Engaging on Facebook and Being Successful.
Bas and Roy speak with Stefan Weitz, the director of Bing, on a plethora of issues including improving their organic SERPs, driving UK market share, and when will Bing arrive to the rest of Europe.
Bas and Roy have an exclusive interview with Search Engine Land Editor-in-Chief Danny Sullivan about the allegations that Bing had been copying Google search results.
Roy is joined by guest host Richard Theuws to discuss Search and Net Neutrality, plus Google Voice introduces a new major feature: Number Porting.
From Twitter Transparency to Affiliate Transparency, Bas and Roy welcome back Barry Adams to discuss Google rankings, Twitter submissions and more.
Goldman Sachs reportedly had been offering their clients the chance to invest in Facebook, in a deal that values the company at 50 billion dollars. They also discuss what might happen with the Sex.com domain now that it has bought for 13 million dollars.
Tripadvisor blocks Google Places, but Google doesn’t know…? Tripadvisor, one of the biggest sites when it comes to reviews for local: hotels, restaurants but also flights and trip ideas, seems to have blocked Google from showing their results in Google Places.
Google might buy Groupon, so what? Bas and Roy discuss with fellow blogger Peter Young, author of the post Search and social: A match made in heaven?
Search Monitoring Tool Talk with Jon Henshaw and Taylor Pratt from RavenTools as we learn about the many tools out there to use to optimize your online strategy.
Biggest Myths in Conversion Optimization with Stephen Pavlovich, one of Europes most respected conversion experts. Bas and Roy follow-up with Stephen on his post on conversion optimization on SEOMoz entitled The Definitive How-To Guide For Conversion Rate Optimization.
Bas welcomes guests Joost de Valk and Richard Baxter to discuss the topic of microformats. They answer questions from both State of Search readers and the WebmasterRadio chatroom . A very informative show with hands-on tips to use.
Majestic SEO did a major update, claiming to have crawled about 52 billion URLs and has nearly 350 billion unique URLs in their anchor index. Majestic SEO Marketing Director Dixon Jones joins Bas and Roy Live from Pubcon 2010 in Las Vegas
Leading Dutch social network, Hyves sold to Dutch media group TMG, Bas, Roy and guest Nicola Stott discuss this plus recap the Manchester SEO conference and more
Spamming a poll on a blog like Pete Young is doing on his Holistic Search Marketing where he has posted a poll for viewers to vote on the top influential SEOs in Europe.
A4U Expo London 2010 Recap with guest Search Engine Strategist Rishi Lakhani as he and Bas recap some of the notable SEO sessions that they participated on.
Young people appear in their searches on Google using both sponsored and non-sponsored links. Contrary to previous research 41 percent do not even know what a sponsored link. Roy and guest co-host Dennis Siever discuss this story that appeared in the October issue of the Journal of Marketing. They also discuss the blue arrows that come up as part of the new keyboard navigation system that rolled out for Google Instant this week.
Bas and Roy discuss recent headlines including Hyves a Dutch social network, plus they preview A4U Expo with Chris Johnson, the Head of Client Services at Existem, the company that runs Affiliates4u, a4uexpo and the a4uAwards.
Bas and Roy speak with Brent Payne from the Chicago Tribune about a recent blog post where who tries to sort through a few contradictions on white hat vs. black hat SEO.
Bas, Roy and guest Andy Atkins-Krueger discuss the launch of Google Instant, which was received by the industry as being one of the biggest changes Google had made so far. They examine if Google could be planning on killing organic all together? They also discuss a Search Engine Land post Andy wrote on Untangling The Confusing Search Scene In Asia
Bas and Roy welcome back the SEO Head of MediaVest, Pete Young. They discuss the recent voting changes at Sphinn, as well as a recent Rand Fishkin post at SEOMoz entitled Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Googles Rankings are Remarkably Well Correlated.
Bas and Roy discuss a story on the ethics of an infographic about the Pakistan floods lead to a discussion with the chatroom about good and bad linkbait. Also a new eyetracking study on User behavior in SERPs
Bas and Roy welcome Bastian Grimm, a German SEO and a State of Search blogger who reported from SES San Francisco 2010 last week. They discussed what he took from the show, plus they discuss recent Google developments, realtime updating and more.
