Vancouver is indeed going to be a treat.
This topic raises a very good point in the timing of the Vancouver Search Engine Boot Camp.
The fact that this question was raised today shows webmasters' desire to do what they can to circumvent any time barrier or algorithm barrier that would keep them between top listing and their traffic.
Whats my point?
MSN = New Crawler and New Algorithm (to be launch soon)
Yahoo = Acquires Inktomi and rumours have it that they will be dropping Google shortly and utilizing that 300 Million Dollar investment.
Yahoo acquires Overture and now dominates the PPC market.
Overture had acquired Fast Search & Transfer and AltaVista.
The full circle nature of Spidering to Pay Model to now come back to have Spidering become much more prominent again means you better have a grasp on your SEO skills for spiders.
Tons of changes in this space and they are going to dictate our methods and tactics on how to get there and posture your self to be spider friendly and potentially on the top of the pile when changes come down.
Timing on this Boot Camp couldn't be better.
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