Visi is showing off it’s new data center in St. Paul along with a lineup of fine educational sessions. The event is Thursday, Nov 2nd with both afternoon and evening sessions. It is free to attend but you must register.
Educational sessions include:
* Maximize hits on your Web site through Search Engine Optimization
* Leverage WIKIs for […]

Since ask.com retired Jeeves (site hat tip, Christy), it now looks like Microsoft decided to step it up a notch with their new promotional search engine, Ms. Dewey.
It’s gotten a bit of attention so far. Functionally, it won’t be replacing anything, but we’ll see how much buzz it generates for Windows Live.
For user experience, it’s part comedic, part provocative, and part sarcastic. […]

Back in May we saw some reports that Google was testing this tool and now Vanessa Fox has announced the new crawl rate tools are available in your webmaster tools. Four new tools in all were announced including:

Googlebot activity report charts

Number of pages crawled per day
Number of kilobytes downloaded per day
Time spent downloading a page […]

Calling all MIMA members that are into seo/sem, we need a few people to be authors and contribute to our new blog. If you would like to write posts and reply to comments let us know.

I wanted to do a brief once over of the survey results from 10-05-2006 and grab a few key pieces from it to help us determine where we go with our MimaSM group.

MIMA SM Yahoo Group Member visits: We had 15 people take the survey and 10 of these visited the Yahoo Group on at […]

MimaSM is a collection of people lured and hooked on Search Engine Marketing and Optimization. We are a sub group of MIMA (Minnesota Interactive Media Association) which is a local organization in Minnesota for interactive marketing professionals.
We have a Yahoo Group known as the MIMA SEO/SEM Geek Group which has been around since May of […]