TopRank Digital Marketing News

The CEO of TopRank Online Marketing was interviewed by local ABC affiliate KSTP Eyewitness News on Starbucks’ decision to close its stores for 3 1/2 hours to conduct training. Odden cited the event as a publicity stunt and indicated the closure would give competitors an opportunity to attract Starbucks clientèle with discounts and free offers. KSTP’s report showed exactly that as competing and regional coffee houses were much busier than normal during the Starbucks closure.

At the Search Engine Strategies conference in London February 21st, TopRank’s CEO Lee Odden was interviewed by Greg Jarboe on blog and news SEO for Incisive Media, parent of the SES London conference.

“Odden discusses his panel on blog search engine optimization (seo) and online reputation management as well as his panel on news search optimization”

Odden gave presentations on the news and blog optimization panels and moderated the reputation management session.

Watch the full Lee Odden SES London interview on YouTube.

On October 20th, 2007 Eric Schwartzman of On the Record Online interviewed TopRank CEO Lee Odden about Search Engine Optimization and Public Relations at the PRSA International Conference in Philadelphia, PA.

Show Notes:

• 3:16 – Odden gives examples of the benefits of SEO.
• 4:07 – Odden on the role of SEO in a media relations.
• 5:52 – Odden on the search engine optimized press release.
• 7:00 – Odden on keyword placement within a press release to secure an optimal search rank.
• 7:58 – Odden on the usefulness of mentioning competitors in press releases to increase page rank.