If you take a look a the picture below, you can imagine I’m the proudest father in the world. And yes, Tim is really the cutest baby on earth.;-)

This is what I call a happy new year!

From now on all my blogposts, tweets, Flickr additions and more should be updated automatically. From this point on it’s up to me; creating killer content.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know!

The sessions I spoke were International SEO (day 1) and Local Search & Blended results (day 2). It made it even more exciting since both session were moderated by industry well known Vanessa Fox. Both sessions turned out to be really fascinating, with lot’s of audience interaction. Not least because of the other speakers, Andy Atkins-Kruger & Duncan Morris (International SEO) and Susan Hallam & Jon Myers (Local Search & Blended Results).

I won’t recap this event, since this is already greatly featured by other attendees and beacause Wiep Knol and I already made a short Dutch recap at Marketingfacts. However, you will find some great resources listed below.

For all of you that are interested, find my presentation slides here:

Other great resources at SMX London 2008:

• Searchcowboys.com; several articles about conference
• Andrew R H Girdwoord; fastest blogger in town on the local search session
• Wiep Knol; Did a great job on the Blow Your Mind Linkbuilding techniques session
• Eduard Blaqcuire; Blogged his socks off at the SMX
• Richard Baxter; “High Five” Day 1 recap
• Mark Bovenkerk; He took some great pictures
• LondonSEO: Great party, unfortunately they threw us out at 23.30…

The best example of this is the introduction of a new news-paper which we managed. In the pre-introduction period, where you could only do trial subscriptions, the cost per subscription was higher than the actual subscription fee. Once the (offline) media campaign started and the brand became more well-known, we saw cost per subscriptions dropped to less than 10% of the subscription fee.

From this example, and more I’ve came accross, I would definitely say that branding is really important in search. But in the end, it’s all about your objectives and testing what works best for your brand within your selected target group(s).

I’m very curious to read your examples of the synergy between Branding and Search.

Next to me my colleague Wiep Knol will also contribute on the “Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques” session, a must see! I’ll be speaking about International SEO (day 1) and Local Search & Blended Results (day 2). If you have suggestions to include in these presentations, please let me know and will try to fit them in. And of course, If you like to join me exploring the London nightlife, be my guest!

This year we decided to stay in the Netherlands on our holiday. Since we don’t want to spend all time at home (behind my Mac), we’ve booked a nice hotel in De Koog at Texel. The photo you see next to this post kind of describes what Texel is about.

Great nature and nice picturesque villages. Texel is a great place to spend your Dutch holiday (if the weather is ok).

It was only 1990 when the internet really got shaped as we know it nowadays. A lot changed since those days. With the introduction of simple tools to create your own webpages, blogs, social homes, photo sharing and the major decrease in costs for internet traffic and storage the internet evolved like no other medium. That question is; “Where will it stop” and will it ever stop?

Google is still trying to keep up with with this growth and I must say they are doing a great job, on the other hand, they could index this website more often .

What I’m curious about, is what search query on Google will give back the most results on indexed pages? My best pick so far is Google, what’s yours?