Speaking Engagements

Welcome to my personal blog. This section is where I keep links to some of the speaking engagements I've held recently. Generally I discuss search in some form or another, often evangelizing the importance of SEO to technical audiences, or representing my company at industry events.

Resources: Speaker's Bio

Past engagements: Presentations | Interviews

Presentations


	Advanced Search Engine Optimization for Web Developers Technical overview of search engine optimization for web developers. Topics covered: What is SEO, How do Search Engines Work, Page-Level Optimization, URL and Information Architecture, Working with Marketing, and Diagnosing SEO Issues in Your Website. Find slides here.

	The Truth About SEO Clarifing many of the misconceptions about SEO, including those held by the industry. And it caused quite a stir, and here :) Live Site Reviews Reviewed websites of companies from the audience, highlighting things their doing well, and not well form a technical, SEO and marketing perspective. Bot Herding Panel Represented Microsoft's Live Search on this panel about managing robot's access to your website.

	SEO Friendly Web Application Design 1/2 day technical workshop for developers on search engine optimization. Topics covered: What is SEO, How do Search Engines Work, Page-Level Optimization, URL and Information Architecture, Working with Marketing, and Diagnosing SEO Issues in Your Website. Find slides here.

	Advanced Search Engine Optimization: Generating More Site Traffic from Search Come learn how to use search to drive significantly more traffic to a site including the top ten best practices for designing and developing a site for search engine optimization (SEO).

	Search Enginer's Q&A Linking Q&A SEO 2.0 for Web 2.0

	Dealing with the Penalty Box Local Search Optimization Live Search Webmaster Tools Launch

	SEO for Web Developers A 1.5 hour general overview on search engine optimization for web developers. Download the presentation from microsoft's server (preferably), or from my server. You can also learn more about the session and see the slides here.

	Sitemaps & URL Submission The major search engines have recently united around a common "sitemaps" standard to provide them with bulk URL submissions. This session looks at how sitemaps works, along with other submission options.

	Search Capabilities for Dynamic Websites [BD007] You can view the session via a rockin silverlight viewer. But they need to read my RIA Strategy Guide post, because you can't link to it. Here are the steps: Go to http://sessions.visitmix.com/ Click on Mix 07 --> Breakout --> Developer --> Presentation Title --> BD007 Search Capapbilities for Dynamic Websites.

	Using Gadgets and Macros to Your Advantage [Sponsored Workshop] Overview of Live Search Macros, and Gadgets. Find presentation here. (Note, conference has wrong speaker listed for this event)