Had a blast this past weekend in vegas, but I didn’t have very good internet access anywhere the whole week, so I’m doing my wrap-up now. I got labeled “shifty eye Dan” in the first round I played of SEOmoz’s Werewolf game, but I managed to survive a few votes before being lynched and revealed as a black hat (Matt Cutts did a a “black hats rule” dance later that night when he too was a black hat).
The best part of the week was the networking, Dave and I met a ton of great people, including Cyril, Cory, Melinda, Sugarrae, Todd, Vanessa, Rand, Justine,…
So an email just went out about a new post on the pubcon blog with links to liveblog coverage of the conference. I was excited, this blog was listed a number of times.
But ‘lo they’re not clean links, they’re all directed through ra.cgi. And how exactly are they redirected? 302s
Are you serious Brett?
They’re probably not going to be doing a spring conference. Instead likely more of the one day type events.
Tim Mayer
Several of the search engines have announced a unified sitemap structure. MSN, Google and Yahoo. Ask is invinted too.
Yahoo search mission is to enable people to find, use, share and expand all human knowlege. Find: enable people to find what they are looking for, use search not for sake of searching but to achive a purpose. Share sharing knowldge with people you connect with and connecting to people who you share knowledge with. Expand: yahoo answers helping expand the amount of information on the web.
Getting into the search index: Link to the url from an…
PromoPortal.co.uk
They’re looking to improve the URL structure of the site.
They have id= in their urls, someone on the panel says its not ideal, but its not a death sentance.
The site is a year old. They say this is a problem.
Matt Cutts says the content is duplicated by other sites that are using the same suppliers. Matt says to ask what’s your value-add.
Everyone is joking about Matt using his laptop with the secret tools.
The real problem is that the content is not unique. There are dozens and dozens of sites with the same content, they need to alter the data and make it unique. Rewriting the descriptions or adding review…
