Speaking Engagements - Michael Cottam

I was honored to be the guest on the Technology Association of Oregon (TAO) Techlandia podcast in November. It’s on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube.
I moderated sessions at SEMpdx’s Engage 2024 conference for Duane Forrester and another for Dana DiTomaso.
I was the guest speaker for the June 2024 SEMpdx monthly meetup. I gave a talk (mostly demos) on how to create Chrome Extensions using ChatGPT to help automate common SEO tasks. The slides are here, and the code is here.
I was the guest speaker on the Ecommerce Traffic & Conversion Podcast on YouTube with DJ Sprague and Scott Brandley (of Shopper Approved). You can also find it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Interview with John Horn of StubGroup about SEO that works in 2023.
I was the guest speaker at Perpetual Traffic’s podcast on practical uses of ChatGPT for online marketers, February 14, 2023. Hosts: Kasim Aslam (Solutions 8) and Ralph Burns (Tier 11).
I was the guest speaker at the Allinial Global Digital Marketers Conference Call on February 23, 2022.
I was honored to be one of the speakers on this podcast on SEO predictions for 2022.
A webinar for clients of Ink on how to get Google to see your content, including quality signals.
I was the guest speaker for the monthly SEMpdx virtual meeting on July 13, 2021 – I gave this presentation on negative SEO.
A webinar for Shopper Approved on page load time tuning and Core Web Vitals.
Did this podcast with Amy Rosenberg of Veracity Marketing on “Staying Ahead of the Puck that is Google”.
Gave this webinar on Search Marketing and Optimization for Montessori Schools for Nido Marketing.
Served as a panelist at Tidings’ Assembled conference in Portland, OR.
Presented at the US Storage Centers‘ Westport Marketing Innovation Summit.
I gave one of the Ignite presentations at MozCon in 2016, about making choices between work and family life. Jeremy Cabral, one of the attendees from Finder.com in Australia, wrote this about my talk.
Working with Internet Travel Leads – webinar for DWHSA (slides are here).
Podcast with Nathalie Nahai – the psychology of persuasion.
Moz Whiteboard Friday – on real-world Panda optimization.
SEMpdx: Hotseat – on the panel, reviewing sites for SEO best practices.
SEMpdx: Penguins & Pandas – presented with Ben Lloyd on Google’s Penguin and Panda algorithms – Oct 9th 2012 – see slide deck.
Searchfest 2010 – Display Ads panel
SearchFest 2011 – moderator
SearchFest 2013 – moderator
SearchFest 2014 – moderator
SearchFest 2015 – moderator
Innotech 2013 – presentation on Google’s algorithms with Ben Lloyd of Amplify Interactive