Back at the grind - international analysis for SEO - I love the international overlay - adds so much intellectual challenge - keeps me young

Blog Entry Via Ping: Technical SEO: Introduction to Site Load Times and Natural Search Rank.. http://bit.ly/B0V2J

Not sleeping is good for the blog-can use the extra time to read/write..and keep up with guys who don't have to pay private school tuition

Spent 2 fun hours talking SEO and social media with communications head at York School. How do you communicate "unexpected" in social media?..hmm

Am researching social media on men's topics. Posted radically chauvantistic site on Fbook- definitely not for this feed. Some humor instead: http://ping.fm/cawOn

Murphy's law of demos proves itself once again - two minutes before prezo it worked - now connectivity dies

In San Luis obispo before Annika's last meet Big Sky Cafe is our faborite place to eat. Yum.

big change in search: Bing-Facebook and Bing-Twitter deals-small RT engines now must face the music. http://ping.fm/lDqFD

At Monterey Bay Invitational working the grill - hard to watch Anikka and serve

No Free Lunch: Either I get SEO boost from messaging on Ping via social media amplifier OR improve Twitter authority by entering there. Not both.

Blog Entry Via Ping: Why Search Engine Optimization Matters: Yesterday, a reasonably well-k.. http://bit.ly/43sySw

Blog Entry Via Ping: Do Americans Want Advertising Even if Tailored?: There is one frustrat.. http://bit.ly/pc6In

Blog Entry Via Ping: Own Your Online Brand – knowem.com: This is a review of a service crit.. http://bit.ly/3YqVuo

Blog Entry Via Ping: Targeted Advertising: Tailoring Paid Search: An argument for changing .. http://bit.ly/y93Va

Blog Entry Via Ping: Social Media Strategy and Search Engine Optimization – You CAN Own the.. http://bit.ly/xnHzU

Google Announces New Specification for Crawling Ajax - http://ping.fm/dboPT

Ever heard of a "headless browser" - if not you will need to understand it for the new AJAX crawlability proposal from Google http://ping.fm/VBxIo

Been at the Marriott all afternoon working away - good wireless and good food (shhh...don't tell the kids they want me on a diet).

At S'bucks NY early working-what to say about homeless lady who sits in(upscale, maybe lost job can't afford NY rent)-she has right to live

Caught up with two longtime friends - watched Yankees (they did, I didn't. Now 1 last meeting and then back to blog

With Ralph Severini at the Times Square Marriott doing site analysis - no wifi at my apartment ^&@@^!!! :(

If you haven't seen this & are doing SEO/social media-you must look-reports & ability to measure SM value huge- http://ping.fm/ymuGm

Last session at SMX East - Social Media Analytics - good three days, but short-term memory is utterli (pun intended) full!

great session on social media and reputation management

Probably best public resource page for SEO tools and learning-Stephan Spencers is great but behind a login http://ping.fm/xGBgE

Great linkbuilding session at SMX East - link and content evolution go hand in hand

OK - I'm officially a SearchEngineLand groupie - Just met Josh Dreller of "In the Trenches" - this guy knows search. We're not worthy.:)

Yahoo no longer supports meta keywords tag - they never said anything!

Press release SEO-use images! 15-25% higher CTR. Helps drive blog articles + images last-picked up on image search long after release. Cool

Most ecommerce stores report avg conversion rate of 2%. BUT wide range - Schwans 45.1%, Proflowers 34.1%, for example

A great tool for determining/improving load time on your ecommerce site- http://ping.fm/3W8AD -it matters for indexing of site

Retailers - best practice goals to set for performance of your category pages: Bounce Rate <5%, Exit rate < 5% - Khalid Saleh, Invesp

40% of visitors enter via home page; 60% enter other pages. BUT 60% who land on home leave immediately, only 40% leave content/category pages

Finished SMX East - now off to drinks with Ralph Severini before he heads to the Ferry

finally got connected at Javitz-session on pagerank sculpting ++ -my takeaway is as always, do good UE design and info architecture first

Shari Thurow is right - build good information architecture and that is more powerful than pagerank sculpting -I have written the same thing

Eric Enge case study on pagerank sculpting shows that nofollow change did happen a nofollow not useful any more. New approach is ....?

SFO-wall to wall people. Huge security lines. The entire US travelling public must be saving $ flying red eye. Not me-gym schedule drives

Late night travel - red eye to NYC for SMX East - want to get to first session on pagerank sculpting after Cutt's input at SMX Advanced

Late night travel - red eye to NYC for SMX East - want to get to first session on pagerank sculpting after Cutt's input at SMX Asvanced

up until 4AM building a computer - the problem with being he family IT manager. Scott McNealy had it right - Bill Gates is the culprit. :)

back from a tough day at the gym - first mediocre day in 2 years-there is always a first. Been recovering by doing estimated taxes. :(

"Language is an involuntary emanation of the mind, no work of nations, but a gift fallen to them by their inner destiny"-Wiliam von Humboldt

leaving to go to AlohaFest at Airborne gym. We're a team of 3 vs teams of 10-15. David vs Goliath- Annika may be small-but she's powerful

Up early working away - catching up from playing hooky yesterday afternoon-but that's the beauty of being your own boss-better family time

jet lag hit me at 5PM yesterday - down until early today. Now off to Palo Alto for meetings