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One of the benefits in speaking at the conferences such as the Search Engine Strategies is to have the opportunities to meet industry professionals and to learn from them. As the SES London approaches, I had an opportunity to interview Mr. Michel Leconte of SEO Samba, who will be on the Organic Listings Forum on February 18.

Q1. Before we talk about SEO, can you tell me about your company, SEO Samba?

SEO Samba is the sole “organic search management platform.” We’ve coined the category name to distance ourselves from PPC management platforms that SEM specialists are already familiar with. SEO Samba’s focus is on maximizing web site performance with search engines and other “free-to-play” digital marketing channels such as blogs, news, video, social, and others. It enables SEM firms and SEO experts to manage an unlimited number of organic search clients, projects and web sites from a single interface—and change SEO best practices across them all with a single click. From a conceptual Continue Reading »

I had a pleasure of being interviewed by Eric Friedman of Marketing.fm. I had fun talking about International search marketing including SEO, SEM & Social Media, and a little bit about my background.

Please visit the post “Interview with Motoko Hunt about Search Around the World & SES Chicago 2008“.

Search Engine Strategies will be held in Chicago from December 8 through 11 this year. I will speak about the search market in Japan, and a bit about Korea and India markets during the “Search Around The World” session on Monday, the 8th. This session covers other markets such as China, UK, Germany, France, Poland, Russia and Latin America. It would be a good session for people who are considering entering these markets to learn from the expert in the regions. Visit SES Chicago for the information.

Yesterday, I did Bruce Clay’s SEM Synergy interview, and talked about Search Market in Japan. It will be broadcasted on Webmaster Radio on Wednesday, November 5 at 12:00pm. MP3 file can be downloaded after the show. Continue Reading »