I love the SMX search conferences. They’re fun, they’re informative, and I get to spend time with people that I really like. Here’s what I’m most looking forward to: You&A with Matt Cutts 5:00 – 6:00 PM Tuesday The Matt Cutts / Danny Sullivan one on one is the most fun and informative session of […]
Ah, SMX Israel. Marty Weintraub, Michael King and others flying to Israel to join Israel’s top SEOs. I get to go to a great conference without flying anywhere. And great Kosher food. This is the life. Here were the best lines: Best Lines Roman Zelvenschi: Nobody knows how to pronounce my last name, but that’s OK, […]
I’ve been enjoying ProBlogger for a while so it was great to hear him in person at BlogWorld. Here’s the essence of his talk. I’d like to start with an experiment. Find a person next to you that you don’t know and ask them why they started blogging. [Think about your answer, I’ll wait.] I […]
BlogWorld was awesome. Here’s the best of the best: Best Lines Amber Naslund: There are these big changes going on in how people interact, and we’re in charge. Are your parents scared? They should be. Our top fear isn’t failure, it’s being blamed. … they’d stone me to death. And not in the good way. […]
SMX East was awesome. Here’s the best of the best: Best Lines Jeff Jarvis: Google is portrayed as Godzilla but sees itself as Snufflupagus (hat tip: Lisa Barone) Marty Weintraub: Make your Facebook ads fun! “Lost your head”? “Goodbye stupid tools”, or “Don’t be a dumb__clockhead” ..”Facebook won’t let you say ass (hat tip: Akvile Harlow) […]
I was thrilled that WikiMania made it to Haifa. It was a great conference. Here was the best of the best: Best Lines Jimmy Wales: We need to recapture the spirit of innovation (in software) and not have a massive debate for each change. (hat tip: @Wittylama) Wikipedia cares about quality. Many articles the average […]
Thanx to great Tweets, blog posts, and the incomparable Lisa Barone’s SMX coverage, here’s the Best of SMX Advanced 2011: Panda Matt Cutts: There’s a change coming related to scrapers outranking people for their own content that will be released soon. Panda is a site-based signal that will affect you based on where we think […]
SMX London was great. Here’s the best of the best. Best Lines & Lessons David Burgess: [For Extreme Makeover SEO Edition had to get a site from unranked to page 1 in 3 months]: I was told if I couldn’t get the site ranking #1 I’d be sacked. So this is his first and last […]
Extreme Makeover SEO Edition. They gave webmasters 3 months to take a site from nothing to high rankings. Here are the results. Moderator: Rob Kerry, Head of Search, Ayima Speakers: Richard Baxter, CEO, SEOgadget.co.uk David Burgess, SEO Consultant, Ayima Rob Kerry, Head of Search, Ayima Search Marketing Stephen Pavlovich, CEO, Conversion Factory David Burgess […]
Entering the final afternoon of SMX London, starting with Refriending Google: Dealing With Penalties & Suspensions. Moderator: Chris Sherman, Executive Editor, Search Engine Land Q&A Moderator: Kelvin Newman, Creative Director, SiteVisibility Speakers: Craig Danuloff, President, ClickEquations Inc. Mikkel deMib Svendsen, Creative Director, deMib.com Craig Macdonald, Chief Marketing Officer, Covario Michael Wyszomierski, Project Manager, Google @cjsherman @cdanuloff […]