Tim Converse Yahoo
He doesn’t work for the crawler group, but he knows that they find annoying. Crawlers are simple minded. Visit URL, store contents. Extract all links, decide when to crawl those links and decide when to refresh that page. Their crawlers runs continuously. External links and domain registration is how they find new domains. Crawlers are behind a few years from modern browsers, as in javascript, flash, css. your links should be in vanilla html, don’t rely on fancy other things being or not-being processed.
The perfect site for crawlers:
all pages reachable from root page, tree structure. Link to a sitemap.
links should be extractable in plain html, view source, or use old school webbrowser.
Wow, the exhibit hall just opened and the Google guys were taking 100 beta testers for their website optimizer and it was mobbed, pushing and shoving. Brutal.
Christine Churchill is asking how many people are doing international marketing, quite a few hands went up.
Dixon jones:
He says he only speaks english, but europe is his home turf. He’s expressing to MSN spaces for speeches and things that he does.
Receptional is an international marketing agency, they have two top 10 ranks for “internet markting”.
Europe has 90mm more internet users than the US right now and there is another half billion that aree coming online soon. There are 40mm who speak english in the UK. In…
John said that New Orleans pubcon was the first time he talked about federated media and if this audience didn’t boo him off the stage he felt it could be a good idea.
He’s talking about digitizing the back-office and showing a graph of people who were involved in technology, a little over 10 million in 1970. Now digitizing the front-office with over 100 million people who were touched by technology in the 90s. His mac just showed a blue screen and he said its an intel mac and its “totally screwing with him”. He says its bi-polar, it doesn’t have any idea what it wants to be. (He asked somebody to blog it, and I just did). Now…
Brett is talking about how long he’s been using opera and how much he respects it for charging for a product the two other major competitors gave it away for free. He’s had over 500 computers and never run an anti-virus program, because he doesn’t run a microsoft email client and he uses opera.
Jon starts talking about what Opera does as a company. He says they’ve been doing browsers since 1994. They setup the first intranet in Norway. He says they take one piece of code and they make it run on any device. As opposed to pocket Internet Explorer Opera uses the full browser on all devices. People wanted them to make an OS, an office suite or…
This panel is also called “big fucking site management”.
Andrew Gerhart Primedia Automotive:
The first speaker is talking about a site he just took over and the website evaluation they did on it.
it was a strong established site, a market leading authority, lots of incoming links, exisiting content, fresh content and they had previously done some SEO training. The site was built on a modified open source CMS system that output flat html files, the code was a mess, the majority of the content was not opimized, and it was input manually. The site’s structure was not optimized and it linked out to partners for specific content and the forum was no SE friendly. There was room…
