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Originally Posted by Garrett
But I have talked to several people who, like myself, are beginning to get the sense that the value of Search Engine Strategies isn't really there anymore, just because there's a sense of repetition in most of the sessions.
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I'm glad you said this because it's the reason why I chose not to attend...well, that and the fact that I didn't want to go to Chicago in the winter! I'm cold enuff up here in Baltimore. I always thought the price of this conference to be a little steep. That's especially true if most of the information is what we're getting from Search Engine Watch and some other forums and blogs and from the search engine webmaster faq's anyway.
All this turmoil over Google...I for one am glad to hear that they are saying the old tried and true methods are the best way to improve your sites positions on SERPs. After an update in the spring, and I got clobbered, I decided not to stress over it anymore. With this November update, a couple of my sites are now buried in the results for some choice keywords, but rank well for others; a few sites stayed the same and others went up in results. My page rank on several sites increased however :-]
I think we all need to take the "expert" advice with a grain of salt. Remember it was the "experts" who told us to stuff the alt tags in the 90's. And imho, it's the unscrupulous "expert"
seo marketers who cause the little
seo gals like me so many headaches. Especially those that buy and sell links. No wonder Google got ticked off! Talk about manipulation of results! Sheesh...
That's my 2 cents for the evening :] ...Thanks for reporting back to all of us from the conference; your posts have been informative and I've enjoyed reading them......cripchick52