Shoemoney

Yesterday Jen and I did the first show in like a month! I still suck at doing all the live video stuff but its getting better. We talked about lots of topics everything from the Top affiliate Challenge to everything that has been going on in the search industry to the obligatory twitter talk.

So all the buzz about SMX Advanced was about how dark it was. But there was another thing extremely noticeable to me too, and that is how seriously under-represented women were at the conference. Someone pointed out a few weeks before we all made our second annual pilgrimage to Seattle that there were hardly any women listed on the panels on the SMX agenda. Now, we all know how things change and like half the speakers end up not being added until the week before. So I kinda filed it away with the things that make you go hmmmmm and promptly forgot about it. Forgot about it, that is, until the conference was underway and it was like stepping back in time. Where were the chicks?

I wonder at what point MC Hammer references will leave my mind… This song rocked. ANYWAY….

Amazing lol…

Aaron “SEO Book” Wall has an awesome article about Google’s new Knol service.

The Google/Digg acquisition negotiations were in full swing as of last Tuesday, had passed the term sheet stage and the two companies were in final negotiations in the $200 million range. But sometime this last week Google decided to walk from the deal. Digg was notified on late Thursday or Friday.

Barry Schwartz is one of the most respected journalists in the SEO industry and when he wrote this article called The Sadness In The Industry the other day I was a bit surprised.

SearchEngineCollege.com is an online SEO course website. It doesn’t look like its nationally accredited, but hey, you get the SearchEngineCollege.com stamp of approval once the courses are completed.