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The following session have recaps at SEORoundtable:

- Mobile Search
- Search Algorithms: The Patent Files
- Weird Science: The Next Generation in Media Planning and Buying
- Earning From Search & Contextual Ads
- Eye of the Storm: Lessons from Large Search Marketers
- Searcher Behavior Research Update
- Search APIs
- Personalized Search & Search History
- Vertical Creep Into Regular Results
- From Broad to Specific: Capitalizing on vertical search and other niche publishing opportunities.
- Competitive Research
- Keynote Conversation with Ask Jeeves’s Steve Berkowitz
- RSS, Blogs & Search Marketing
- Fun with Dynamic Sites
- Ad Management: Do Humans matter?
- Should You Chase The Algorithm?
- Link Building Basics
- Landing Page Testing & Tuning
- Ad Reps: Friend or Foe? - How to Handle Situations with Search Engines Going Direct to Your Clients
- Indexing Summit 2: Redirects, Titles & Descriptions
- Search Engine Advertising Forum
- Converting Visitors Into Buyers
- Local Search Marketing Tactics
- Executive Roundtable with Search Engine Executives
- Advanced Linking Strategies
- Site ECG
- Buying and Selling Links
- Usability Clinic
- Search Engine Q&A On Links
- B2B Tactics
- Organic Listings Forum

A lot of talk coming out from this conference:

SEO Roundtable
Search Engine Strategies

Search engine penalties are present and pervasive, and are a primary method used by search engines to control webmasters. Unless webmasters understand what they are and what to do about them, their websites could easily trigger a penalty, losing traffic and revenue.

Article: Coping with Search Engine Penalties

Chris Sherman (Search Engine Watch) wrote an article, Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge, which reports:

The study looked at search results from more than 12,500 random queries on Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN search and Yahoo, and found that the overlap in first page results for these four engines was a scant 1.1% on average for a given query, suggesting that each of the four major search engines has a unique voice that’s not duplicated by the other services.

Books to read: Search Engine Marketing, Inc. : Driving Search Traffic to Your Company’s Web Site

For many (poorly) done SEO sites, scraped copy is the easiest way to create 1,000’s of pages. It has been reported that Google is starting to filter these sites out. (Read related forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.)

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