The Best of SMX

Don’t have time to read our extensive SMX Advanced coverage? We still want you to be able to get something out of the conference, so here’s the best of SMX Advanced, from tips to soundbites and everything in between.

Open Letter to Yang

Welcome aboard, Chief Yahoo. I did a little asking around, to some people that matter in the industry, people that care about your search division, and especially about your Panama rollout. What will happen next? Anything cool? Bold? I've got some rough news for you: they don't think you'll do it. Maybe they don't think you can do it. Everybody's couching their language in lukewarm…

Double Dipping in Google’s Organic Results

Subdomain Spam Since Google has been over-representing site authority in their relevancy algorithms many sites like eBay have begun abusing the hole with the use of infinite subdomains. These techniques not only effect branded search results, but also carry over to many other competitive keywords. 

Google Could Get Content License In China

It’s not a sure thing - “preliminary regulatory approval” is all that Google’s gotten so far - but it appears the Mountain View-based corporation is on its way to receiving an Internet content license in China.

(Yawn) Google Still King of Search

The US uses just four search engines mainly, and one of them almost two-thirds of the time. The same one dominates traffic driven to most ecommerce sites. Can you guess which?