Comments on: Day Two Recap – SMX Sydney SEO SEM Conference 2008

By: Survivor, Entrecard and Stuff | Dipping into the Blogpond

Survivor, Entrecard and Stuff | Dipping into the Blogpond — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:05:00 +0000

[...] Neerav did a comprehensive wrap up of day 1 and day 2 of SMX Sydney (if you look really closely you’ll see me playing peek-a-boo behind the podium). He also wrote about the the possible cloaking by Flight Centre, which looks to have been explained (see the comment by Colin Bowman, GM Marketing Flight Centre Limited). [...]

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:36:40 +0000

That is a ton of useful information. Thanks very much. Local searches still suck. Getting US SERP’s from google is a must. But I think only a total newb would not be in the know. Wish I could attend something like that.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:54:08 +0000

Neerav

Great coverage of the conference mate. And thanks for the detail on the Local Search Roundtable – I was in the main room at the time and missed that one.

Andrew – Gord Hotchkiss gave us some amazing insights into Searcher behaviour. Fascinating stuff.

Leigh

EDITOR: thanks for linking to my Day 2 recap Leigh

By: Ciaran Norris

Ciaran Norris — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:34:54 +0000

Neerav – another great write-up. One minor point though:

“Google News – you need to be a big name to get accepted as a source.”

Nope, not at all. You need to tick a number of boxes, one of which is having at least 5 contributors, but you don’t have to be big. We get some nice traffic from Google News, and we’re no New York Times. Check this out for details:
http://www.google.com.au/support/news_pub/bin/topic.py?topic=11665

EDITOR: Thanks for the correction Ciaran