Dear Rand Fishkin, No, I’m not Melissa. When I saw you at the elevator of the Westin Hotel (you were going down and I was on my way up), and I took the courage to say “Hey Rand!”, a nod or a smile would’ve sufficed. But then you said, “Hey.. Melissa, right?“, and for one [...]

Nathan Buggia is up on stage again. He starts by disecting from an SEO standpoint a website called Arbor Snowboards. The site is very flashy and interactive, but when you look at the source code, the meta title alone does not say anything about the site — meta title is “Arbor: Home”.
Unsurprisingly, while the site [...]

In this session, the speakers repeatedly discussed issues on duplicate content and URL redirecting, URL renaming, and best practices in making your URLs search engine friendly. There’s a bunch of technical discussion on .htaccess rewrite modes and http status codes, whew. (Note to self: Get more air time with the developers). The panel is moderated [...]

Danny Sullivan, who’s facilitating the session, came in 2 minutes late, but made a grand entrance by telling everyone that he was late because he got the Javits wifi, which was really sucky about 3minutes earlier, fixed. Thanks, Danny, you’re super!
So now, with a front row seat to the Video Search Marketing session, and a [...]

So I’m finally here, and let me just say it again. The Philippines should be proud of me for braving this. :P This place is more intimidating that I expected. I haven’t seen any Asians yet, if there are, they did a pretty good job blending in. :) I did get acquainted with an Australian, [...]