The 140 conference in Tel Aviv was great. Best Lines: Bob Rosenschein: If you have a hot startup idea, let me know. But please don’t send me a business plan. Send me a 140 character pitch. Bob Rosenschein: Israel has such an advantage over the Americans. We wake up 7 hours earlier! [Australians have an […]
SMX Advanced was fantastic! Here’s the best of the best: Best Lessons: Matt Cutts: To the best of my knowledge Bounce Rate is not used in WebRankings Google tries to break up words in a domain name, even when there are no hyphens. Regarding MayDayupdate: Matt Cutts: MayDay is largely Google knocking out pages that […]
Great conference. Here’s the best of the best: Best Lines: Avinash Kaushik: I know my books were successful because the top search results for the book’s topics are the pirated versions of the book. Avinash Kaushik: The important question is the Why. The internet is full of weird people and they’re all on your Website, […]
SphinnCon Israel was great, thanx Barry! Thanks everyone for all your help in generating this post: Best Speakers: Sam Michelson: Funny, engaging, informative presentation on brand management. Eli Feldblum: Apparently a great session on SEO for Video. Miriam Schwab: Great tour of tools for Word Press. Debra Askanase: Great tour of Social Media tools. Uri […]
Jeff Pulver, Yossi Vardi, Mel Rosenberg, Noam Fine, and Sharon Ariel ran a networking breakfast and Bird Brain Unconference yesterday. A bunch of creative people doing different things. The highlights: Best innovation idea: Roi Chobadi: A chat client that looks like you’re programming in Visual Studio. You know, so when your boss walks into your […]
Best Lines: Carolyn Shelby: I don’t usually no-follow. I only do it if it’s somebody I really hate and I use it as sort of a digital middle finger ‘Hi’ Lawrence Coburn: Sharing is Caring but Google is King. Search: 97%. Social 0.55% Joe Laratro: [After giving URLs for Google & Bing Webmaster tools] You […]
SMX Advanced was fantastic. Here’s the best of the best … Best lines: Christine Churchill: “Anybody in this room not on Twitter? One person? Wow, let’s all applaud the last holdout.” Matt Cutts when asked “how do I know if I’m getting penalized?” : “If you disappear from Google. That’s what we call a leading […]