… you launch a new blog with a post like this: Time For A Valid Opinion
Oh well, I’ll just sit back and watch the flaming begin 
PS. Stick the RSS Feed in your aggregator, or I’ll <edit>someone scary</edit> will come and beat you up 
Adam Lasnik joked during lunch at SMX and at the SEOmoz party that I was “that guy who hates Google”. Maybe some of my blog posts such as “Hacking Your Way To Number One” gave him that impression, although I do truly love Google. It’s my default search engine of choice, my email provider, my calendar organiser and my income source. Sure, I’ve said lots of negative things towards the Big G, although correcting these issues will only make the company stronger.
I also cannot think of one person I dislike at Google; my comments about Matt Cutts’ views on paid links were aimed at challenging Google’s policies and plans on this matter - not challenging Matt on a personal level. I don’t really speak to Matt much at conferences as he’s usually busy in big crowds of star-struck newbies, although I’ve had a few drinks with Brian White, Vanessa Fox and Amanda Camp before and think they’re top notch. I’ve also seen a glimpse of the future and was very impressed after chatting with Google Webmaster Central intern, errr… Red Googler (sorry that I can’t remember your name despite you telling me several hundred times).
So in summary, please don’t hate me just because I’m evil. Anyway, more tips and tricks on how to spam and hack Google coming soon
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” 