Thomas McMahon aka TwisterMc

Just got back from the GoogleDance and it was a lot of fun. Got pictures too. I know I haven’t gotten any posts up today but I’ve been busy. Hopefully more information tomorrow.

My last session of the day was on competitive research. Knowing what your competitor is doing can help you out. Things to watch include: Alexia – Check stats, traffic and analyze links PPC – See what competitors are bidding on or optimizing or Market Leap to check backlinks Use email alerts to keep track of […]

Another session I was looking forward to but not really impressed with. It was mainly about Yahoo, Google, Ask and A9 talking about their personalized search and search history services. How they worked, how they can improve your personal search and things like that. No real information on how they would effect regular search results […]

I was a little disappointed at this one, however it was still quite interesting. They spend most of the time talking about video searches and no time talking about how to create Podcasts like I was hoping they would. Blinks has the best service because they have software that actually listens to every Podcast and […]

My first session today was on search engine patents; what they mean an how they relate. It was pointed out that every search engine knows that SEO’s and competitors will read these patents and so they know to disclose only what is necessary. Here are a few pointers from the conference. Search Engines can see […]

So far the morning sessions have been ok. The first one was about search engine patents and the second about audio and video searches. I was hoping for more podcast information that I received but it was still. So much that I can write about from the patent session but internet access is limited during […]

Well I’m here and all signed in. Not a whole lot of people here yet and I don’t see breakfast. But I did get a bag of materials for the conference and a free t-shirt.