Neil Patel is presenting at this time on SEOC practices with WordPress.
Basic SEO practices so far:
Using alt tags for images. Keep them relevent.
Use the Head Meta Description plugin to make sure you have a meta description tag describing the page.
Some guy was asking to be banned by Google because he thinks that opening up a bunch of sites to link back to yourself is helpful.
This session has some really stupid question in them. Aside from the above comment, the same guy has asked about what is, in essence, keyword stuffing. How dumb can you get.
Mostly this session is very elementary. Backlinks, keyword density, some stats programs that analyze search terms, etc.
This session is presented by Om Malik, well known blogger from GigaOM.
There’s a big misconcpetion about the difference between blogging and journalism. I disagree with Om as he defines blogging as a personal genre. Perhaps thats the misconeption for those of us who do professional or niche blogging that what we do is actually more journalism than anything else.
Quote of the day:
If you can write something in 1000 words, why write it in 2000? If you can write it in 1000 words, you can write it in 500 words. If you can write it in 500 words, you can write it in 200 words. Those 200 words have to be the best quality words that convey the message.
The photo above was taken by Scott Beale (Laughing Squid).
I did not have a chance to live blog the last session because, hey, I was hosting the session. The topic was Blog Architecture and how we can drive more traffic deeper into a blog. Good times. It was the first session of that sort that I ran and so I had no idea how it would go, but the conversatio took off.
I started the session describing some of the stuff I’ve been wrestling with over at Technosailor as well as the wholesome argument about tags and categories.
Matt Mullenweg presenting State of the Word (keynote).
Matt thanks the people who have made this happen and thanks the sponsors.
When WordPress got started two years ago, as a fork of b2evolution, WordPress has come a long way. WordPress 1.5 was downloaded 700k times. WordPress 2.0 has been downloaded over a million times. Matt thanks the people who have submitted patches, plugins, themes and forum support. Such a great community… er, he used the term ecosystem. Good choice of words.
As we progress, there is so much that everyone wants that is specific for them. The key is to keep the core light so many different avenues can be pursued for various purposes. read more
What is “Compelling”? He is taking questions about what is compelling… in a movie… in a TV show… in a song. What makes things compelling? An emotional response?
Chartreuse is as compelling, pardon the pun, in person as he is on his blog. He is a natural speaker, really has a great knack for capturing the attention of people, and communicating his heart in an incredible way. It’s hard to document it.
Continuing on with the “What makes something compelling”… Personalize it. Everyone is all about vanity. How does it affect ME? How can a blog about vending affect me? Can it motivate me to read because it affects ME?
This is a great point and the more I think about it, it makes sense.
Oh, 100 point bonus to Chartreuse for using the word “esoteric” in a sentence. :)
This session is presented by Om Malik, well known blogger from 
Matt Mullenweg presenting State of the Word (keynote).
