Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'pubconvegas06'

I am back from the PubCon Vegas conference. It was the best PubCon ever, in my opinion, Brett totally did an awesome job, even without his wife not being able to come (we noticed). This conference is much more laid...

Posted on November 17, 2006 11:07 AM

With Matt Cutts, Tim Mayer, Greg Boser, Todd Friesen, Danny Sullivan and modded by Jake Baillie. This is a site review forum, so my not taking won't be so great... It is just funny how people trash on these sites....

Posted on November 16, 2006 5:29 PM

Vanessa Fox from Google to talk about bots... The basis is that major SEs bots behave well, they do not all use the same syntax, test your file to make sure you're blocking and allowing what you want and use...

Posted on November 16, 2006 3:12 PM

Roger B. Dooley is up first. there are youth oriented communities, the challenges include population changes from yea tot year, behavior issues and generation caps. But they spend a lot of time online, they are a desirable demographic and they...

Posted on November 16, 2006 2:23 PM

Moderator: Justin Sanger Speakers: Robin Liss, Founder and President, Camcorderinfo.com Lee Odden, President, TopRank Online Marketing Greg Jarboe, President and co-founder, SEO-PR, seo-pr.com David McInnis, Founder and CEO, PRWeb Moderator is missing, so the speakers will do this on their...

Posted by DazzlinDonna on November 16, 2006 1:04 PM

Brett Tabke welcomes everyone. He recaps things and talks about the schedule for today... He blamed Danny for breaking the news about the new sitemap protocol. He then talks about Danny resigning from SEW and how he asked Danny to...

Posted on November 16, 2006 12:54 PM

I was lucky enough to be invited to Yahoo!'s party last night at the Palms Hotel. Yahoo! rented out the Hugh Hefner's Sky Villa, which I hear goes for 40k per night. They had Chris Pierce performing live with his...

Posted on November 16, 2006 10:04 AM

Tom Hughes from Sentient Services was up first. Brand positioning research presentation. While we are delivery web site performance, we are also delivering brand performance. Why should I care about brand experience? The web site is the front line for...

Posted on November 15, 2006 7:35 PM

Amanda Watlington was up first. The typical causes of duplicate content include many. Tools to detect dup content include your ability to search, take content of 10 words and search on it, also see cyberspyder or webbug, domain ownership info...

Posted on November 15, 2006 5:51 PM

Purchasing Links Moderated by Jake Baillie, he quickly introduces Andy. Andy Hagans from Text Link Ads, and also “review ME” which launched last week. First most critical factor when looking at a link buy is the theme of the site....

Posted on November 15, 2006 5:25 PM

Search Blogger and Reporter Forum Todd Friesen (aka Oilman) is moderator. This is an open forum format (more difficult to cover but I’ll try my best.” This is certainly an all-star panel, from the moderator on-down. Speakers are Lee Oden...

Posted on November 15, 2006 4:06 PM

Ted Ulle gets up at the podium and welcomes every body. Adam Young is first up, WMW PHP mod forum. He explains that you can do anything with scripting. It is more important to know what you want done, versus...

Posted on November 15, 2006 2:03 PM

Warren Kay, Director, Emerging Products, Yahoo! Steven Stern, go2.com Jake Baillie, President, TrueLocal.com Doug Perlson, Chief Operating Officer, Seevast Moderator: Justin Sanger For 3 years, it was local search is hot. Last year, it turned to local search is now....

Posted by DazzlinDonna on November 15, 2006 1:05 PM

Last time he spoke here was New Orleans and it was before FM and his book. He showed an industry narrative, and calls this the third wave of tech and culture. Between 1970 and 1980 they had Digitize Back Office...

Posted on November 15, 2006 12:45 PM

Brett praises Opera.... Jon S Von Tetzchner is now up... They make browsers. They put the browser on anything out there. PC, Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc. You can also run it on your mobile, nintendo, etc. all running the same...

Posted on November 14, 2006 7:32 PM

Todd Friesen is modding. Andrew Gerhart from Primedia was up first. They acquired an auto site with tons of strengths... The weaknesses of the site are that; entire site was built on a flat file CMS, code is a mess,...

Posted on November 14, 2006 6:54 PM

Heather Lloyd-Martin, Jennifer Slegg, Ted Ulle, Byron White Ted Ulle gives overview. Working with a team, problems with teams, and why workflow is a critical factor. How to avoid a Franken-site. Work flow must support your priorities. Final result must...

Posted by DazzlinDonna on November 14, 2006 6:26 PM

Jake Baillie is moderating this panel. Elisabeth Archambault was first up, her aka is buckworks. She is not anyone's super affiliate. She pays more in taxes then what she earned teaching in a community college. Content for affiliates... Optimizing an...

Posted on November 14, 2006 5:38 PM

Link Development and Linking Optimization Moderated by Greg Niland aka GoodROI. Introduces Rae Hoffman, who will talk about “Delegating Link Development.” Quality link building takes time, so how to get them without doing it yourself. Is speaking extremely fast… outsourcing...

Posted on November 14, 2006 3:49 PM

Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR.com was up first. He shows a slide of news search, vertical search, local, blog and social search, as they are used more and more by agencies and marketers. MarketingSherpa tested the tactic known as SEO PR....

Posted on November 14, 2006 3:39 PM

SEO and Big Search Moderated by Joe Morin. He welcomes everyone to Pubcon, says that it is officially the largest conference in their history. Melanie Mitchell from AOL. Starts with a review of the “old AOL” versus the new AOL....

Posted on November 14, 2006 2:37 PM

A bit late to this panel, got caught talking outside in the lobby. Niall Kennedy is up on the stage, he is currently talking about wikipedia. He is now explaining web feeds as alternates. They are highly structured, discovery by...

Posted on November 14, 2006 2:20 PM

Guy Kawasaki from Garage Technology Ventures, worked at Apple in the past. He makes fun of PC's and then begins his keynote. He worked at Apple in the mid 90s and he was responsible for convincing companies to write software...

Posted on November 14, 2006 1:03 PM

I walk down from the conference hotel across the street to the conference center. As I am slowly lifted via the escalator up to the conference area, I see this line forming. The line must have been hundreds of people...

Posted on November 14, 2006 12:21 PM