The problem I have, is EVDO phones are not GSM and won’t work outside the US. EDGE phones are not as cool as, say, the Treo series. So, what to do? Danny bought a Treo EVDO phone while at the conference on a shopping trip. I broke down and did the same. The thing is, the aircard requires its own service agreement! Verizon really ought to bundle and encourage more purchases that way.

*cheers*
-detlev

Regarding the auditing click fraud session, well maybe I tripped over the wrong group of people, but I was going by in the hall and there were 30 people outside the room watching on monitors. Maybe this means people need to be a bit more aggressive about grabbing empty seats rather than trying to cluster around in the back.

I registered a sitemap a while ago, and because the system probes for a 404 before it will verify ownership, I used the .htaccess file to send a 404 when the probe filename was requested. Some servers don’t send 404s, and webmasters don’t have control of the servers.

It was fine for a while, but then the probe filename was changed, and the sitemap became unverified. What’s the point of that? Why make me go through the process of downloading a huge logfile to get the new filename and set up the .htaccess file again? Presumably, I’ll have to do it every time the filename is changed. Most webmasters won’t even have the knowledge to fiddle their way around the 404 probe, and if the server doesn’t send a 404, they are stuffed..

Why doesn’t the Sitemaps team do what people have suggested ever since the probe was inroduced - i.e. use a verification that all webmasters have easy control over, such as some unique text in the probe file, or a unique line in the robots.txt file?

re: http://www.threadwatch.org/node/5780

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/33351.htm

Any word on that if you are back at work today

Anyway, off to read the Google Webmaster Guidelines again and do more work on the site!

How about addressing googles policy on the use of the rel=”nofollow” in non blog sites. Because of the large spam issue with domains expiring etc, I will add the rel=”nofollow” to sites I like, but don’t trust long term. What is googles policy on the use in links to other sites.

Look forward to hearing your words on this matter in the various SEO forums I hang out in.

So others suffering is happiness for you. The new big daddy pages dropout affected million of sites. Almost 50% of sites in different niche.

Most of the sites affected just have their homepage listed all legitimate pages dropped out of google index.

check for the keyword “search engine optimization”

You can see 40 out of 100 sites affected with this google bigdaddy bug.

Including sites like seochat.com , seobook.com , semlist.com lost all their pages except their homepage. All other age old pages listed are only supplementary. Is it wrong to ask matt regarding this. You need to stop your bragging dude.

I’d like to get around and do a bit more schmoozing but I have to man the booth when at the shows. Anyway, I’ll try to track you down in Boston

BTW - Heard from Bill that you guys ran into each other; he’s a swell chap, eh?

One day a 7.5k page site has 800 pages cached, the next day reporting 8300 on a live datacenter 72.14.203.104 and they are all really old url’s - all supplimentals. However, other datacenters have current url’s and proper caches.

Search phrases that have been top now don’t exist since the pages are not cached. Is this Bigdaddy muck ups that we have to ride out?

Not very nice when I have to survive on msn and yahoo number one serps. They are seeming to be far more dependable but have low traffic.