This thursday and friday was the time for SAScon in Manchester, where I gave 3 formal presentations, I’ve embedded them here (using an updated SlideShare plugin, more on that in the next post):

Feeds & Microformats

This panel, together with Richard Baxter of SEOgadget and James Lowery of Latitude, contained some great discussion on how to use microformats for rich snippets in the Google SERPs. I mostly discussed hReview & hReviewAggregate:

Tools, tools & tools

Next was a session with my buddy Dixon Jones from Receptional and Majestic SEO (who by the way just launched the Majestic Million) and Ross from Ad Insight, a pretty cool call tracking platform. I discussed 22 free tools that I use regularly:

WordPress SEO

The last session of the last day (yeah that’s a painful spot) but still a decent turn out of people listening to me and how I think they should optimize their site’s structure using categories, tags and custom taxonomies more, and some other geeky stuff:

Presentations from SAScon is a post from Joost de Valk's Yoast – Tweaking Websites.

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