Where do I even start with this one. To me this year Think Visibility had the whole PubCon feel from many years ago, SEO’s sharing tips, war stories and basically doing crazy stuff!
One of my normal complaints at search conferences is the parties, not because they aren’t good parties they are, but they aren’t good for networking and I guess for anyone who is organising a conference you have to get the right mixture of imparting knowledge, networking and partying.
Google has a new 404 page, kinda made me laugh a little
mine is :
what’s your favourite 404 page and why ?
Farmer still hasn’t hit the UK yet, but if you’re interested to see it in action you can actually do a live before ‘n’ after comparison. Go to google.com from the UK, do a search and note what you see. Then add &gl=us to the end of the URL and you will see the updated SERPs. I’ve dug out a couple of entirely random examples below that hopefully illustrate what you might find. I’ve also been completely dumb and not done a like-for-like comparison at all, as some commentators have pointed out. I’ve never got a handle on Thursdays.
We did a post last week on Mahalo and mentioned we’d check back to show you the true impact of this latest release:
Mahalo Visibility Drop
Ouch, that’s a nasty drop. Mahalo aren’t the only one though, check this graph out for ezinearticles.com, it’s even worse!
Ezinearticles Visibility Drop
It appears that Jason Calacanis has had to fire 10% of the workforce at Mahalo, according to this article on Center Networks. James brought our attention to the comments on Hacker News, where Jason replies to a few of the comments.
I’m looking forward to this weekend when I will be heading over to my favourite city, Leeds, for the return of the Think Visibility conference. I will be making a weekend of it with Becky, and Anthony and Kean from the Bronco team will be coming too.
This time round I won’t be doing the usual presentation on a specific topic but I’ll be in “Dave’s Den” from 4pm on Saturday and will be doing live site clinics. It should be an interesting session, unless everyone heads off to the bar before me. If you have already put your site forward for review you may be one of the (un)lucky ones getting a few top tips, and if not you should be able to learn some good SEO techniques by attending the session and seeing how I analyse sites and form a plan of attack.
For those of you that don’t know yet, Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal did a blog post on the Official Google Blog yesterday talking about their new update and how it helps “to reduce rankings for low-quality sites”.
So if you’ve seen a drop in traffic from the US, this is likely to be why. According to the blog post it is likely to affect 11.8% of all queries, so it is likely to have a big impact (positive or negative, depending on your type of site).
Just noticed this: ( click to make big )
old layout :
I guess that stops the Shoulder surfers looking at gmail addresses
Dave
Next week I will be heading to London with Becky for a few days to speak at SES London. The conference is changing venue to the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre and I’m really looking forward to this year’s event.
I will be doing all of my speaking on Tuesday 22nd February and I have 3 sessions.
First up I will be in the Expo Hall at 11.15am doing an Express Clinic. I’ll be available to do a mini site clinic on your website or answer any specific questions that you may have.
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