Win a ticket for SES Hamburg!

So SES Hamburg is close, very close, and if you haven't bought a ticket yet, you can win one here! There are three reasons, according to Matt McGowan, to come to SES:

Constructive feedback on how to improve your website's visibility in the Search Engines - more relevant traffic, more sales
Immediate feedback on how to improve [...]

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Interview with Kevin Ryan of SES

For a new series we've started on DutchCowboys I recently interviewed Kevin Ryan. We covered some interesting topics, like the difference between the European market and the American market, the influence of the Chinese market and loads more!
I'm really looking forward to seeing Kevin and Matt on SES Hamburg in a couple of weeks!
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Web Analytics Congress: the learnings

I've had a great day at the web analytics congress, the keynotes by Neil Mason and my good friend Avinash Kaushik were inspiring as ever, and Mieke from Independer.nl had a nice presentation. Not much real news in there for me, but very, very inspiring.
What I saw today was mostly this though: even though [...]

Web Analytics Congress in the Netherlands

I'm currently at the web analytics conference here in the Netherlands, where Neil Mason of Applied Insights is doing the keynote speech, saying he doesn't actually like web analytics, but rather calls it online marketing optimization and I feel strangely at home...

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Heroes coming to Holland

In the coming few weeks, a couple of my friends and heroes are coming to Holland! First, Kris Jones from Pepperjam is coming to do the keynote at Affiliate Dag 2008, the very first Dutch affiliate conference with over 500 people registered already!

Enjoying SMX München

I'm enjoying SMX with my colleagues Evert, Nina and Roy. The presentations went well, and the off-conference part was great too. Refined Labs, Thomas Bindl's outfit, threw a great party yesterday evening, while launching their new bid management tool Refined Ads, which looked pretty damn good!

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In Munich for SMX: jetzt geht's loss!

We had a very fun time last night with my good buddy Marcus and his friends. We had the pleasure of meeting people like FridayNite, Sistrix, Jojo, Ron, inHouse SEO, Jens and four people of the German search quality team.

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SES NY 2008

So I'm in the big Apple, my first trip ever to the States, to speak at the Search Engine Strategies 2008 conference here, and it's a blast so far! I spoke yesterday on the Search Around the World - Europe session, and it was fun, getting a lot of good feedback. Today I walked around [...]

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SES New York: who should I meet?

So when I announced my conference schedule a while back, I didn't know for sure yet that I was going to be at SES New York, my first ever American conference. And the best part of it: I'm going as a speaker! I'll be speaking on the Search Around the World Track on monday, going [...]

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Pics & Presentations from RIMC 2008

The conference is of a stunningly high level, and I have some slides to prove it.