Ian McAnerin: When we talk about geolocation we are talking about a page, not a site How bots identify a webpage as belonging to a particular country First the bot checks the CCLD (.ca, .cn,.uk) If no CCLD (e.g. .com) then the bot will look at IP Address If they still can’t tell they rely […]
Russ Mann of Covario is now talking about Fortune 500 CFO’s starting to demand more accountability on the marketing spend. Search engine marketers need to help their clients prove the value of the marketing spend because it’s one of the first things to get chopped. Jon Miller: I think you’re going to be less spending […]
This panel is turning into a CNBC talking heads fest. Not sure I care what these guys have to say about the recession except as it applies to search engine marketing. Are people buying ppc with their stimilus checks? If not I don’t want to hear about it as SMX Advanced. This just in: @TechLH […]
Andrew Beckman Location3Media Recession is mild but it’s trending the wrong way. CPA costs for clients are going up and search budgets have decreased. Dave Davies Beakstalk SEO of Canada The biggest effect they are seeing in Canada is the exchange rate of the dollar. Russ Mann of Covario The glass is not half-full, it’s […]
It made my day yesterday to meet a lot of you and get your feedback on the blog. If there are any more of you out there in the shadows and you are feeling the need to boost someone’s ego today please come up and give it a shot.
There was a good supply of coffee. The food at lunch was a little too salty, but that may be because I have been drinking too much coffee – apparently caffeine can cause your mouth to have a salty taste. The wifi was good. It usually blows at these conferences. Good gathering of SEM pros. […]
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Got to this one a bit late: ShoeMoney says if you buy a lot of domains for SEO don’t 301 redirect them all at once as this could send up a flag to the search engines. 301 them over time. Jeremy Wright of b5 media – a blog network of about 700 sites Metrics for […]
Evan Roseman from Google: It’s ok to use Nofollow Your site is not going to get flagged because you use internal Nofollow links Avoid conditional redirects – this is a “risky technique” This just in: MSN may have dropped its support of the NoFollow tag but the Microsoft engineer on the panel isn’t sure.
Presented by Priyank Garg from Yahoo Standard Across All Engines Robots.txt Disallow Allow Wildcard tags Sitemap location Meta Tags: NoIndex NoFollow NoSnippet NoArchive NOODP Optional Robots.Txt/MetaTags by Engine Yahoo Crawl delay NOYDIR Robots-nocontent Google UNAVAILABLE AFTER NOTRANSLATE NOIMAGEINDEX MSN Crawl Delay