Our industry's conferences are a lot of fun, and of course educational. In the past few years several companies, like Distilled, have been offering smaller conferences which allow attendees to get to know each other better and have more contact with experts in the field. Distilled has been offering conferences for the past three years. .

Since HBO took the Game of Thrones books and created a fantastic show the books and the series have taken off. The show is great and the books are fantastic! I have collected some funny Game of Thrones items for fans everywhere. Oh and remember, Winter is Coming! Are you ready? Disclaimer - If you .

I am sure you heard yesterday that GM stopped investing in ad space on Facebook. New research on Facebook advertising performance from WordStream may offer a few clues as to why General Motors discontinued advertising on the massive social network. Wordstream's research provides some important data such as: Ad Performance: Click through rates on Facebook .

April was a big traffic month for us and that means we had some fantastic and informative articles you should read. Below are the top 10 articles based on traffic numbers. Happy reading! 1(. 24 Eye-Popping SEO Statistics by Eric Siu | @ericosiu 2(. 15 Best Link Building Tools by Sujan Patel | @SujanPatel 3(. .

One thing that irritates me more than anything is stupid commercials. Some are so incredibly bad I just can't believe that big brands have paid for the commercials to be made. So last night I am watching TV and this Google commercial comes on. It was just so smart I had to share it with .

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This Whiteboard Friday video is very educational and is a great tool to help business associates, managers and even clients understand how critical it is have a solid SEO monitoring and maintaining your website)s( and SEO. Rand explains how negative SEO can hurt you and what others may be doing to hurt competitors. Examples of .

It is May 4th! Star Wars Day! Below is a collection of goofy and funny stuff for you to enjoy. Have a great day! Quote of the day - "Only a Sith deals in absolutes." Source: google.com via Melissa on Pinterest Source: google.com via Melissa on Pinterest Source: google.com via Melissa on Pinterest Source: google.com .

Pretarget's infographic, Display Drives Search, could be very helpful and education to those that are new to display advertising. The infographic looks at how closely related display and search really by using statistics from recent studies. Impact on different industries is provided and some tips on leveraging search and display for maximum conversion. Click to .

'The Avengers' is officially released today and it is a movie that action hero fans couldn't wait for. I thought I would provide some fact-filled sites, guides and other information for your Avengers pleasure today. Below you can buy tickets, scan through wiki's, read reviews, find cool places to shop for Avengers gear and much .

MDG Advertising created this video called A Marketer's Guide to Pinterest. The video shows the increase in traffic on Pinterest in the last year, demographics that businesses can use, percentages of traffic referrals, which large companies are using Pinterest, how the site is used and there are some additional tips for using Pinterest as well. .

I have never played WOW, but of course know of the game. Whether you have played the game or not this is a hilarious video. Sheldon's World of Warcraft account was hacked and all of his precious items and gold were stolen. Watch how he handles it. )FYI, the rest of this episode focuses on .

ONWARD search created a great infographic called PPC Jobs Salary Guide that breaks down the "best job markets, the most in-demand job titles, and salary ranges for PPC professionals". The guide, for 20 cities, breaks down the saleries for the following jobs: Online Marketing Specialist PPC Specialist Account Manager Director of Internet Marketing PPC Analyst PPC .

I want to thank @GidgetTheGeek for pointing this out to me because I was gone on Monday, April 16th. Celebrities on Twitter can be a lot of fun to watch and today I get to show you one of my favorite celebs on Twitter. @NathanFillion - A.K.A "Castle", "Mal )Firefly(", "Joey Buchanan )OLTL( and Game .

Web companies and designers are going to LOVE this one! TopWebDesignSchools.org released this infographic, The Anatomy of a Horrible Web Design Client. This infographic has some great humor, rules to protect yourself and some stats on web designers. So check it out and have a happy Friday. Click to expand.   Follow SEJ on Twitter .

MDG Advertising's inforgraphic Is Personalized Search Getting Too Personal? is based on the data from a study by Pew Research's Internet and American Life Project that discussed what users perceive and believe about the impact of personalized search. MDG Advertising says the IG shows: "The real public perception of search, as well as how users .

Let me start by saying that SEJ wishes you a very happy and safe Easter weekend. Easter is just a few days away and decorating and coloring eggs can be a lot of fun. Here are some cool ideas via Pinterest that I believe people make at home. I am not quite that crafty, but .

LL Cool J explains Gmail "tap". You kind of have to watch to get it. Thanks to Jenny Lopez / @jennita for sharing this!

I am going to explain how to take screenshots with iPads, iPhone and iPods and I am also going to show you how you can edit any image with these Apple products using the Adobe Photoshop Express App. The Adobe Photoshop Express App is outstanding because it allows you to edit images on the go .

That is right! You can have YouTube on DVD. Visit http://www.youtube.com/TheYouTubeCollection for more information! Oh, I forgot to mention "April Fools!" ;-( Kudos to YouTube of all the hard work on this.