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I’m over in Seattle this week for Danny’s first SMX conference event. We kicked off last night at the Microsoft pre-conference party, which seemed to have more Googlers present than MSN Borgs. It turns out that Vanessa wasn’t joking about always registering domains on her Blackberry, buying seobreasts.com at the party after Danny suggested it as an alternative to Lisa’s SEO Chicks idea (would be funny if she stuck an MFA site on it). I’m sitting in a session right now about duplicate content, it’s a little disappointing that the content being presented is just as basic as found at SES conferences. It’s great stuff for beginners but not exactly worthy of the “Advanced” title. I suppose it’s the age old problem of advanced techniques being too valuable to just give away. The duplicate content panel is made up of all the engines as well, and lets face it - they hesitate and circumvent even the simplest of questions at all the search events. I’ve put some photo’s up on Flickr if you’re unable to make this event or want to see if you got into one of my pics. Not sure who’s blogging the sessions, I’m guessing that Barry and Tamar will be over at Search Engine Roundtable.

UPDATE: I’ve just come out of a “SEO, meet SMM” session and it was actually very good. The majority of it was the usual Social Marketing basics although I felt that Rand and Stuntdubl did well at expanding things a bit more and offered some excellent tips. More “Advanced”