BMPR July: “SEO What?!” – Your Speakers

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You’ve heard all the SEO noise out there: Is SEO a skillful art? Or is it more like that bad joke your creepy Uncle Wade brings up at family picnics? This month’s BMPR speakers will help you answer those questions and the one that matters most: So what? Time Warner’s wireless gurus will school us on the company’s new WiFi product and — hold on to your seats — have two giveaways .

Susan Price

Susan Price:

Susan Price (@firecatsue) is CEO and Chief Web Strategist at Firecat Studio. She says one of the payoffs of running a social media strategy is that it makes you more findable through Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Susan will cover 10 quick tactics – low hanging fruit – that you can put to work right away to get some social media love without paying for it.
Firecat Studio  a San Antonio-based interactive agency that delivers digital strategy, website design and development, email campaigns and social media campaigns for businesses and organizations large and small.  Susan has been co-creating the business web since 1993. Her clients include USAA, the Fiesta Commission of San Antonio, Texas State University, the San Antonio River Foundation, and Mutual of Omaha. http://firecatstudio.com

Matthew Egan

Matthew Egan:

Matthew Egan is the President of San Antonio SEO firm Image Freedom. He’s going to breakdown the Anatomy of an Optimized Site. What is a keyword? Where should I put my keywords?  How come one web site is higher on Google than another?  What is a backlink and why does it matter?  Matthew will be discussing these introductory SEO topics with a holistic approach towards total site optimization.

At Image Freedom, Matthew optimizes business websites so they appear as close to #1 on Google as possible.  Image Freedom believes that through an amazing web presence and engaging site content your business site can achieve any sales goal. www.imagefreedom.com

Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly is the founder and CEO of Pear Analytics. At BMPR, Ryan will talk specifically about how to drive more targeted traffic to your website. In addition, he’ll perform a live demo of the Pear Analytics product to help improve the searchability of your website.Pear Analytics is a technology startup based in San Antonio, Texas.  Pear Analytics builds tools and software to help marketers, startups, small businesses, and other web professionals drive more traffic to their website. The company’s focus for the software is page analysis, which helps a site owner identify things that drive incremental traffic to their website. www.pearanalytics.com

Mark Langseth

Mark Langseth, Time Warner Cable’s Texas Region senior manager of Wireless will join us to talk about the company’s new Intelli Go Mobile Hot Spot, the dual mode (3G/4G) mobile hotspot device that can provide WiFi connectivity to five devices simultaneously. What’s more, Mark and Time Warner have arranged for fun giveaway to a BMPR attendee and one runner up. So bring your lucky rabbit’s foot. http://www.timewarnercable.com/