Vanessa Fox is the next session I will attend. She will speak about WordPress, Audience Engagement, and SEO.
Vanessa used to work at Google.
1 billion internet users worldwide
113 billion searches each month
More than half use search engines to find stuff….duh?!
www.internetworldstats.com/stats – I didn’t know about this site, but do now.
Awesome animation slide? Can’t read it from where I am sitting.
Vanessa is cute…but 20 minutes in to the talk, I am still waiting to learn something new.
New! – http://www.google.com/insights/search/ – didn’t know about this.
Interesting story about a woman who blogged about the TSA taking her baby away. TSA picked it up and within 30 minutes showed 8 camera angles to prove the woman was not telling the truth.
Use one domain,
Put dates in your post
Google news
use ALT attributes on images
Use RSS effectively
Speed of download is important
Google webmaster central…worth checking out.
SEO Quake – do not use plugins that scrape Google data.
There was one slide I didn’t get a good look at that seemed particularly relevant. Dang it!
I wonder if I can get copies of the slides.
Keywords ignore meta tags! Bummer…