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 […]
This is the presentation I’m giving at SMX Advanced 2010. With 2 of the livebloggers that were scheduled to cover this presentation out sick (feel better Lisa and Virginia), I figured I’d cover it myself. Don’t worry, I’ll be objective 🙂 The presentation’s goal: that in 10 minutes the listeners will have thought up some […]
The book I picked up (Logic of Life by Tim Harford) on the way to SMX Advanced had a chapter on cities that somehow contained excellent insights into: Why I attended the conference Social Media (one of the conference’s key issues) WikiAnswers (one of the sites we’re trying to make even better) Living near Jerusalem […]
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 […]
SMX Advanced 2008 took a darker turn than many people expected, and an implicit challenge came out of that: can you do an Advanced conference that’s mostly white hat? The SMX Advanced 2009 agenda gives the impression that the organizers accepted this challenge.
I’m looking forward to SMX Advanced in Seattle next month. Last year’s conference went a bit off course, IMO, with an over-focus on “Black Hat” SEO. I’m not an expert, but I nonetheless need to attack two myths: Myth 1: There’s No Room for Morality in SEO SEO expert Todd Mallicoat wrote the following post: […]