Hot Banana is a web content management system with a heavy focus on search engine optimization. Jeff from Lyris talks about this product at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York.

Max from Compete talks a bit about their web/search analytics packages at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York.

Bruce Clay is a SEO from Bruce Clay Inc. In this video he talks about his companies SEO Toolset at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York.

Yahoo Search Marketing is talked about at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. Yahoo Search Marketing is a product that allows small businesses to be listed in search results on Yahoo and it’s partner sites. Paid search can help you to organically raise your search rankings without delving too deeply into the SEO black magic.

Conn Fishburn from Yahoo talks about Social Media Search at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. Social media search references the new social areas that the web is heading. Things such as comments and forums can help to increase your search engine juice.

Richard Naimy a Search Engine Optimizer talks about his job at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. Richard discusses some of the simple things an organization can do to help improve their search rankings.

We’ve been running videos from Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York for a few weeks now and wanted to give you all some definitions on some of the terms you’ve probably heard in the various videos. Video 3 of 3 gives you the definition of Conversion Rate.

We’ve been running videos from Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York for a few weeks now and wanted to give you all some definitions on some of the terms you’ve probably heard in the various videos. Video 2 of 3 gives you the definition of Exit Rate.

We’ve been running videos from Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York for a few weeks now and wanted to give you all some definitions on some of the terms you’ve probably heard in the various videos. Video 1 of 3 gives you the definition of Contextual Marketing.

Kevin Ryan talk about the importance of writing good copy at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. Some examples on how to write your articles based on how your audience thinks rather than how your “Brand Speak” would have you write them are given.

Matt Bailey talks about web Analytics at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. Matt lays out what Web Analytics is and how you really have to focus on more then just the numbers.

Find out more about Matt and SiteLogic here.

Frederico from Blinkx is interviewed at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. Blinkx is the world’s largest video serach engine. Eight-teen million hours of video from all over the web is indexed by this service.

Find out more at Blinkx.com

Rob Langfeld talks about Blogvertise at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. This service helps find advertisers for bloggers and vice versa via a pay per post method. Bloggers can sign up to write reviews of a companies product or service through an easy to use interface. Find out more at Blogsvertise.com

We talked with Steve from eLocal Listing at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. eLocal Listing is a service that can provide small to mid businesses with a web presence and marketing campaign. Also covered in this video are a series of tips to help you optimize your page if you are producing video content.

Jeff Eisnenberg discusses “scent” at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. “Scent” is a concept on how your site’s content should relate directly to any Pay Per Click or ad campaigns that link back to your site. Linking with one topic to a page with a totally different one confuses the reader and voids the “contract” you made with them by offering a hyper link.

Jason Calacanis talks about his new human powered search engine, Mahalo.com at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York.

Mahalo is a “Human Powered Search Engine” where human beings create all of the result pages by hand. This allows you to find the top five or ten links for any particular topic. Search engine results are often times filled with spam sites, Mahalo is working to fix that.

You can check Mahalo out for yourself at Mahalo.com

Matt Bailey discusses Site Validation at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. This is part 6 of 6 from Matt’s session. Matt discusses that while making your site validate does not directly increate your SEO rankings, it can help the web spiders to properly access your content.

You can find out more about SEO at Matt’s site – SiteLogic.com

Matt Bailey discusses Cascading Style Sheets at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. This is part 5 of 6 from Matt’s session. Matt talks about the power you gain by using a style sheet to fully separate your content from your design.

You can find out more about SEO at Matt’s site – SiteLogic.com

Matt Bailey discusses URLs and Favicons at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. This is part 4 of 6 from Matt’s session. Matt talks about human readable URLs and a simple little branding tool called the favicon.

You can find out more about SEO at Matt’s site – SiteLogic.com

Matt Bailey discusses user defined action at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. This is part 3 of 6 from Matt’s session. In this video Matt talks about how search engines will not follow to pages that require user defined action. Things like forms or flash elements can not be properly indexed, impacting your SEO options.

You can find out more about SEO at Matt’s site – SiteLogic.com

Matt Bailey discusses web architecture at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. This is part 2 of 6 from Matt’s session. Matt talks about your site taxonomy, menus and navigation. Some good and bad sites are showcased to help get his message across.

You can find out more about SEO at Matt’s site – SiteLogic.com

Matt Bailey discusses search friendly design at Search Engine Strategies 2008 in New York. This is video part 1 of 6 from Matt’s session. Matt talks about getting your site into the proper state to be properly crawled by crawlers and users who use scree readers. The big Target.com suit is discussed.

You can find out more about SEO at Matt’s site – SiteLogic.com

New Media Manitoba attended Search engine Strategies 2008 in New York. This collection of videos will show you all of the cool technologies and companies that can help you get better search engine rankings.