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Are you looking to level-up on your Local Search Engine Optimization game? Do you feel like you may be missing some of the vital components necessary to get your business ranking higher in Google’s local search results and Google Maps’? If so, you will want to take advantage of this opportunity! Argent Media founder, Chris […]

Argent Media CEO Chris Silver Smith has been asked to provide the keynote at the International Search Summit in Barcelona this November. Chris has long provided online reputation management services to individuals, companies and organizations, and he plans to provide a number of anecdotes from the reputation trade, in addition to providing a number of actionable […]

Argent Media CEO, Chris Silver Smith, will be speaking at the upcoming Content Marketing Conference in Boston, April 16-19, 2019, on how Twitter can impact search engine optimization, and the overlaps between content marketing management and SEO. Twitter is one of the top social media platforms that provides significant benefits to companies and personal brands, including […]

We recently took the unusual step of advocating for an admitted forger by way of submitting an amicus curiae brief to the court prior to the sentencing phase. If you closely followed the news around online reputation management issues, you may have heard of the jewelry company CEO who was caught forging court orders in […]

Chris Silver Smith will be speaking at SMX East in two weeks on the topic of “Tips for Local SEO & Reputation Management”. In some ways, Local SEO has gotten harder over time, as competitors become more sophisticated, and as technical tricks no longer provide advantages. However, some methods for performing the basics can be […]

A couple of weeks ago, internet marketer Joe Hall, announced that he was auctioning off a domain name as a benefit for the son of Michael Streko, a prominent figure in the industry who tragically died on August 11th. We’re pleased to have participated in the benefit auction, and we won the DIYORM.com domain name. […]

My grant from the Chris Smith Institute for Exotic Travel was enough to cover both days of Rocks Digital, the Richardson marketing conference formed by the Voltron-like fusion of the Local Social and the DFW Rocks Social Media Conference. As you may recall, the first day featured, among other luminaries, Shelly Fagin. But even conferences […]

This weekend, I received a grant from the Chris Silver Smith Institute for Exotic Travel and hit Richardson for Rocks Digital, an annual conference discussing all things marketing-y. While there were several clever speakers scheduled for both days, I was particularly interested in hearing from all-around digital genius Shelly Fagin on building community with Facebook […]

This weekend in Fort Worth, I will be speaking at WordCamp DFW. WordCamp is a friendly, unstuffy conference that focuses on everything involving WordPress, which is free, open-source internet publishing software used by more than 75 million sites on the web.  Talks at these conferences range anywhere from how-tos on blogging, to customized software development […]

I’m speaking this week at the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) East conference in New York this week on how to derive Search Engine Optimization (“SEO”) benefits from social media. In the past, this topic has been a little bit controversial. On one hand, people in SEO sometimes tend to think that Social Media is worthless […]

At the end of December, I reported at Search Engine Land on what what seems to have been a major change in Google’s internal policy. (See: Paradigm shift: Has Google suspended defamation removals?) Google has effectively begun to decline requests to remove defamation from its web search results, although it has been honoring those takedown […]

Issues involving the application of trademark laws relative to online media content have been present since the beginning of the internet. However, the legal ramifications of how trademark infringement may be evaluated and litigated have evolved over time, and company executives and internet marketers may be unaware of the options and risks involved with their […]

Practical Ecommerce is sponsoring their first conference in Dallas next month. The conference is geared towards internet ecommerce website marketers and entrepreneurs. Argent Media can provide a significant discount for friends and clients! The three session topic tracks are Marketing, Conversion and Management. IGNITE 2015 is the inaugural conference by Practical Ecommerce on Sept. 16 […]

Argent Media CEO, Chris Silver Smith, will be presenting a session on “Repairing and Safeguarding Your Brand Online” at the Rocks Digital Marketing Conference in Dallas next week. Request a discount code if you’d like to attend! Chris has worked on various aspects of Online Reputation Management (“ORM”) for many years and has extensive experience […]

As part of the SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle, Chris Silver Smith, Argent Media CEO, will be speaking at the Local Search Advantage Workshop on June 4, 2015.   The Local Search Advantage Workshop provides a deep dive into many of the primary aspects of local marketing, covering all of the topics necessary for local […]

I’ve been very excited that Search Engine Land‘s editors have recently allowed me to start a new column series dedicated to Online Relationship Management, which will be published on their sister site, Marketing Land! My first article for it, “9 Key Points for Cleaning Up Your Online Reputation Nightmare Via SEO“, appeared a few weeks […]

On the second Wednesday of each month, DFWSEM (Dallas-Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association) presents a social and networking event, complete with a speaker who can hold the attention of a hungry after-work crowd. They were fortunate enough to persuade Andy Beal, from the UK via NC, to take the lectern this month. Ukulele addict […]

Argent Media CEO, Chris Silver Smith, will be speaking at SMX West’s Local Search Advantage Workshop in March on the topic of Building or Fixing Your Online Reputation. Consumer sentiment about a business is heavily influenced by both the recommendations provided by acquaintances as well as by opinions posted by other consumers online. A Nielsen […]

Argent Media founder, Chris Silver Smith, will be speaking next week at the SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle on the panel, “Keywords on ‘Roids: Advanced Workarounds For Vanishing Keyword Data“, along with industry veterans Christine Churchill (KeyRelevance) and Rae Hoffman (PushFire). As all search engine marketers are aware, Google has steadily reduced the keyword referral […]

Argent Media president and founder, Chris Silver Smith, will be featured this Wednesday afternoon at 1:00pm CST on the Video Marketing Madness radio show with Ray Lane and Steve Sleeper. Chris will likely be discussing the use of videos and video sharing services such as YouTube for the purposes of optimizing businesses for local search […]


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