Kevin Ryan Steps In at SearchEngineWatch
Kevin Ryan announced this morning that he has joined Incisive to lead SearchEngineWatch and the Search Engine Strategies conferences. As some of you know, Kevin briefly worked for Zunch, my former employer, during 2005 before leaving for the “Super Group“. Kinetic Results, formed by Ryan, morphed into Dexterity Media earler this year when Ryan left the company.
Since Danny Sullivan left late last year, Incisive has made a number of changes in personnel and strategy in attempt to stay competetive with SearchEngineLand and the new SMX Conferences (first one just ended this week). It will be interesting to see how Search Engine Strategies can compete with PubCon and now the more advanced and focused SMX conferences after SES San Jose, which will beSullivan’s last conference with Incisive.
I know personally I’ve been visiting SearchEngineWatch much less this year – mostly just to keep up with columns from Mark and Tony. It would be interesting to see HitWise metrics comparing the two sites for the past 8 months or so, eh? Nevertheless, search engine marketing is an expanding industry and there never can be too much good info. Best of luck to Ryan and the Incisive team.
