The following session was submitted to Search Engine Strategies in January, 2010. Hope you enjoy it. Home Page Title Tag – Hot or Not? Moderators: David Dalka and either Mike Grehan, Greg Jarboe or Stewart Quealy The first thing one learns about search engine optimization is about the importance of title tags, especially the home [...]
Search Engine Strategies New York City, San Francisco & Chicago 2010 Session Pitch : Home Page Title Tag – Hot or Not?
by David Dalka on January 29, 2010 in Change Management, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Yahoo! (YHOO)
You won £850,000.00 GBP in Google new year promotion
by David Dalka on January 8, 2010 in Google (GOOG)
Just received the following email in my Gmail account. How generous of Google. I sent David Krane a note asking when we can do the photo opportunity with the big check, send the wire and all that fun stuff! From: GOOGLE PROMO <winners@googlelotto.com> Date: Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:56 PM Subject: You won £850,000.00 [...]
Google Local Business Center Results Emailed to Random Business Leaders?
by David Dalka on January 7, 2010 in Google (GOOG)
At 9:25 PM CST tonight I received the following highly surprising email from Google Local Business Center (I have covered the numbers to protect the web site traffic data and subject matter of Google’s apparent privacy victim). Yes, the email is for November, 2009′s local business results for some business named Boscos. A query of [...]
Latency, Spam, Memory Leaks – Google What Are Ya Doing To Me Pal?
by David Dalka on June 24, 2009 in Customer Experience, Google (GOOG)
The following was reported today on the website Data Center Knowledge: “It’s clear that latency really does matter to users,” said Mayer, the VP of Search and User Experience at Google and today’s keynote speaker at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference. Do ya really think so Marissa? Having unnecessary captchas, massive memory leaks in gmail, outbound [...]
BMA B2B Marketing Conference, Google’s Sam Sebastian, Director, Local & B2B Markets
by David Dalka on June 11, 2009 in Change Management, Google (GOOG), Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media
Sam announced in a public forum for the first time that I’ve seen search as a leading economic indicator. I have long dreamed of this prospect from the moment I first saw Google and combined it with my previous background in instituational financial services. I’m excited about this development and would like to openly ask [...]
Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008: Universal & Blended Search Engine Conversation
by David Dalka on December 8, 2008 in Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Yahoo! (YHOO)
Moderator: Kevin Ryan, SES Advisory Board Chair & CEO, Motivity Marketing Speakers: Dr. Larry Cornett, VP, Consumer Products, Yahoo! Search Mike Grehan, Global KDM Officer, Acronym Media Chris Blakely, Director, Client Services, comScore, Inc. Todd Schwartz, Group Product Manager, Live Search, Microsoft Corporation Jack Menzel, Senior Product Manager, Google This is a live session blog [...]
Barack Obama Google Link Bomb, New Facebook URL Glitches or ????
by David Dalka on September 7, 2008 in Google (GOOG), Search Engine Optimization, Social Media
Check this out! Facebook is not consistently ranking #1 for the navigational search “Facebook” on Google. While it’s not happening on every Google data center, I’m sure that based on past posts, Danny Sullivan might find this interesting and worth monitoring. So this could mean one of a few things are the culprit here… 1. [...]
Google’s Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Operations to Present at NASDAQ OMX 21st Investor Program in London
by David Dalka on May 13, 2008 in Google (GOOG)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — May 13, 2008 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Operations, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the NASDAQ OMX 21st Investor Program in London. The session is scheduled for 9:45 a.m. Eastern Time / 6:45 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, [...]
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David Dalka is a digital business strategy professional experienced in realigning organizations to capture customer demand while improving margins. David is a business keynote speaker providing customized business strategy services and corporate executive retreats. David has been cited in the following business publications