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6 Things We Learned at the Google Webmaster Relations Pubcon Keynote

6 Things We Learned at the Google Webmaster Relations Pubcon Keynote

Here are some of the interesting tidbits we learned from Google about disavowing links, featured snippets, link data, and more.

Virtual Keynote with Gary Illyes and Eric Enge


FREE online virtual keynote featuring Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes hosted by Stone Temple Consulting CEO; lead co-author of The Art of SEO, Eric Enge. Eric and Gary will be discussing major industry trends for the first 30 minutes of the event.

PLUS Mark Traphagen, Sr. Director of Marketing for Stone Temple Consulting, will be moderating your submitted questions!

The Changing Face of SEO and What it Takes for Google to Notice You


This week on the show, Eric and Jeff are joined by Stone Temple Consulting’s Director of Marketing, Mark Traphagen. Mark and Eric met at #BankSocial earlier this year and today explore some of the key areas where SEO is changing. We talk about rich snippets, rank brain and the continued impact of mobile on device specific searches. Be sure to check out all the great information that Mark shares with our audience to help “up” your game when it comes to getting found in search.

English Google Webmaster Central office-hours hangout


Join us for a *Google Webmaster Central office hours hangout* 🙂

*Topic?* Add your questions to this event page, this session is open to anything webmaster related like crawling, indexing, mobile sites, internationalization, duplicate content, Sitemaps, Webmaster Tools, pagination, duplicate content, multi-lingual/multi-regional sites, etc. 

*Where:* A hangout on air here on Google+. It works best with a webcam + headset. You can find out more about Hangouts and how to participate at https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/office-hours 

Feel free to drop by – we welcome webmasters of all levels!

State of the Index 2008


At WebmasterWorld’s PubCon in Las Vegas, Matt presented a webmaster-focused overview of what Google has done in 2008, and what to expect in 2009. Highlights from the year include improvements to Webmaster Tools and more communication between Google and webmasters.