I know I have a lot to update here, but I will start with the last session on day 1: You & A with MattQ: How can you tell if your site is in the penalty box?A: If you don’t see it any longer in Google (hahaha) there are different types of penalties, like for simple stuff, hidden text, or hacked. Other penalties have fine nuainces – we dont make all penalties public, only the most obvious ones. If you find your site dropped out completely, go to the Webmaster Forum and ask for help. (more…)
June 10, 2009
It is also better for search engine optimization purposes: When a person searches your name on Google, it’s likely your vanity URL-infused Facebook page will be among the top results – well this isn’t what I had in mind when my name is Googled, but I am sure there will be a provision in place to omit this from showing up in Google. Actually surprised it took them this long.
June 10, 2009
If you SEOs can go to one conference per year, by all means, get to next year’s SMX advanced. Sooooo much great stuff, which I plan on posting once I get a chance, but for now here’s a little something:
1) SEO audit – here’s a report that just came out you can use from Microsoft the SEO toolkit
2) Try semrush – first time hearing of this, but looks very cool!
3) Jane and Robot – aka Vanessa Fox had some really cool stuff – am working on getting her presentation but here’s some of her resources for now anyway.
Ok much more later from sunny Seattle (yeah it’s like 85 and sunny for the last two days – weird but very nice!)
June 3, 2009