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nice to meet you today, steph. and your recaps of the sessions are awesome!
i hope your wrists are ok and that your butt's not too sore... mine is still recovering. not looking forward to 8 more hours on those chairs. :)
Thanks for putting this up! There's a good guide as to how spotting Wikipedia defaces can help with SEO efforts at Search Engine Land, http://searchengineland.com/070717-113550.php. What's "liveblogging"? Is there any chance of a brief synopsis of the whitepaper on getting noticed that you mentioned?
Why is my job, your job or anyone else's job to fix the flaws in Google's algo. They make quite enough money and have more than enough people to stop getting other people to do thier work for them for free
very usefull
Thansk for this
"sell your moustache on eBay — linkbait!"
That was done purely for reasons of aesthetics.
I see what you mean about problems with the comments form. I was saying that the parts of the post that I could understand were indeed useful. I wanted to say that checking what searches led people to my sites has been very helpful in knowing how to title blog posts and what text to include so that people can find the info they need. However, at my personal blog I have found that people have gotten there by googling things like "knitting sluts" -- I know they must be very disappointed when they actually reach the page.
Good stuff - still so little talk about microdata in the SEO realm. GRDDL rocks and Google really cares about pingthesemanticweb entries. So SIOC (Shock) the web and start marking up for the machine.
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Nice one Steph, thx !
Thanks for those recaps Steph.
Thanks for this Steph.
I was waiting for more on wordpress to see. Specificaly on duplicate content avoidation. Which not addresses properly.
Anyway top secrets hmmm!
Great recap - I missed day 2 of WP, but your posting rocks! Now I don't feel left in the dark. :)
I'm gonna link to it, so people reading my recap of day 1 can get some day 2 knowledge as well.
Lauren: I missed day 2. Matt Cutts was the end of day 1.
oops, i feel like a big dork - had to duck out a bit early b/c of another obligation. I thought he was on day 2 though...either way, I was sorry to have missed him and appreciate your thorough recap! :)
this was very helpful, thanks!
So link depth (slashes) doesn't matter? Has anyone tested this theory?
Stephanie, Thanks for posting this. Interesting read.
@graywolf, doesn't he mean to be careful you don't buy/sell irrelevant links, as that will water down the focus of a page's content? If so then that kind of follows, right?
I really enjoyed your recap. I found it through Matt Cutt's blog. Since I'm pretty busy it was a great way to get the gist of the talk.
Thanks!
It was really useful. Thank you very much. I'd hate if I had had to view Matt's 1 hour video :)
Can someone give me an example of how not to "put your blog at the root of your domain" ? Thanks!
What about the info on Wordpress' dup url's? PS - thanks for the write-up, much easier than going or watching the vids : )
Very usefull info. Thanks!
BTW, what is LiveBlogging?
Cool, thanks for the summarised version, defo not got time for 1 hour video. All sounds great and in line with my thoughts on best practice. My only sorta query is about why not to use wordpress in the root of your domain. I know people might decide to do different things latter, but if you are a blog, mainly and foremost, why would you put it in a subdirectory. I personally think that the pro's of having it as root uot weigh the cons.
I guess the main question to ask here is "Why can't you just 301 the pages if you decide to change"?
Any reasons??
More questions -
could I name my blog with my personal initials?
About keywords, I've heard that Google changes its requirements to well-optimized web sites, it concerns keywords usage, do you know?
Finally, thanks a lot for this article, it gives me some points to think about.
I wonder why some of my sites are in index really fastm while others take
too long....
Thanks for the tips.
Marian
Great write up. For those of us too poor to spend 2K on a conference, it is great to get the key points. This information is especially good for white hats.
I think the entire issue of SEO is a confusing one. Seems like everybody is confused by what exactly it means and the whole whitehat vs blackhat issue... Even readying Google's guidelines leaves you scratching your head on a number of issues.... I guess that happens in any new industry.