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SES London: the ultimate list of blogs about it » malcolm coles — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:31:12 +0000

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By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:12:56 +0000

This was a really enjoyable session. I’m amazed too at how much detail you’ve managed to post! I’d love to see Lisa locked in a cage with Maile though. I know that she’d eventually come out with the answers to those burning questions even though Maile played great defence!

As someone who does handles some very small businesses i’m a big fan of local search facilities though. It’s like I can hijack google!

I suppose I have some sympathy for Dixon et al. as I don’t believe paid links should give organic search primacy. I reckon Maile was able to milk a good PR line on Google’s stand against paid links as being ethical and fair and maintaining organic search as a level playing field but at the end of the day Google monetizes prime position and it doesn’t want others to profit from its next best prime position. I’m sure i’m enjoying the benefits of localised search for free – for now….

By: Nichola Stott

Nichola Stott — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:51:21 +0000

It was all the same a great session, if the question wasn’t quite answered. It’s always a bit difficult on such sessions when there’s a Googler in the house. It’s a bit like inviting the Priest to your Hen Night.

By: Lisa Myers

Lisa Myers — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:46:17 +0000

Wow I’m amazed how much you managed to get from that session, you must type like 100 words per second It was great taking part on this panel but I was a bit dissapointed how “lite” on the actual SEO talk it was. Kept on going back to things like twitter and applications and stuff. I really wanted to talk more about the big changes we are facing with Universal Search and maybe particular local listings are integrating in the “standard” results and pushing standard listings down. Yet the search engine spend (seemingly) very little time in supporting these areas. I.e my big issue last month with hijacking of a Google Local Business listing and so on. Anyway, really enjoyed it even so.

I was also quite impressed how well Maile handled some of the harder questions, my favourite was “how does Google detect paid links” …ha!