Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 11:23 AM
All of us with Webmaster Central share one passion: a serious love for improving the Internet.
If you're organizing an event with an audience that would benefit from our discussing building search-engine friendly sites and maximizing the resources of Webmaster Central -- such as our Webmaster Tools, Help Center and Discussion Group -- please submit a speaker request. We'll work with our Corporate Communications team to see if we can add your event to our schedule.
With the intention of helping people make great content accessible on the web, we attended over 15 events this year -- including search conferences, business schools and marketing expos. We feel that we can be most helpful to:
- Site owners/webmasters/bloggers who feature original, compelling content or tools, such as their...
- Neighborhood store, restaurant, dentist office, etc.
- Service or product (e.g. freelance photographer or online wizard for house decorating)
- Passion, hobby, opinion (latest from the San Francisco music scene, perspectives on the upcoming election)
- Web developers, web designers, SEOs/SEMs who build sites for others
Now I'd love to introduce two of our newest speakers who have been active in the Webmaster Help Group for some time: Michael Wyszomierski and Reid Yokoyama.
Hi, I'm Michael, but I go by "Wysz" in the Webmaster Help Group. When I'm not talking to webmasters or doing other search-related work, I like to tinker with my personal blog, take photos, and edit videos. Blogs, videos, podcasts, and other online media often come to my rescue when I'm searching for information online, so I'd love to talk to fellow content providers about how to make sure their sites can be understood by Google.
Hi, I'm Reid. I'm originally from St. Louis, Missouri, but have fallen in love with the weather, biking trails, and culture of the Bay Area. I studied to be a historian and even wrote a Senior honors thesis on Japanese American resettlement in San Francisco after WWII, but as an avid blogger, found myself increasingly interested in the transaction of knowledge and information through the Internet. I'm particularly passionate about helping small businesses build out high quality websites and helping them understand how Google's tools can help them in the process.
10 comments:
Good stuff...thanks Maile, Wysz, and Reid. Glad to see the community ethos extend into real life too! Sometimes it's too easy to forget that real people drive all these things :) Will look into having one of you speak to our group this summer.
Hey Guys,
I am looking for help promoting my website. would you please tell me if this somthing that may interest you or, do you know of other collegues who may be interested?
Lior
liornavok@gmail.com
I just attended the Search Insider Summiton Captiva Island and was surprised not to see anyone from Google there. Hope to see you next time!
Jenn
It's great that you have an outreach program! The only thing I would have thought was that you attended every possible conference out there being the world's leading engine :-) I read 15 and thought it was a typo - like it should have been 15k :-) Cincinnati would love to see you!
The link to the Webmasters Tools doesn't work... I think you have write the href without http://, no?
:D
Here is the link to Webmasters Tools
David Carreira
LOL yea did you expect the webmaster blog audience to not catch the broken link to Webmaster Tools? hehe
Tip one) Test every link on your page after its final launch, no matter how diligent and quality control minded you think you are.
Do you know how to make pagerank 8 ? how ? anyone can help me.
It's good that Google has this initiative to lead in these effort to make internet better through giving importance to relevant and helpful websites. Google is making much effort to improve the internet. (I guess we are in the same boat, my site was conceived because I believe I can contribute in my own little way to make things better for some web users). I hope Google will find a way of ranking sites not based on paid directories. ... consider this I opted NOT to renew my subscriptions to these paid directories : botw.org, yahoo.com, business.com, stpt.com. and some more because it costs so much money and based on Google Analytics, nobody is seeing mysite from these websites... also I felt as if I am paying these guys just for me to rank high in search engines which is wrong.... guest what my website can no longer be found in Google from the highly searched keywords such as birthday cakes, wedding cakes, wedding cakes pictures, pictures of wedding cakes and more. My site's visibility sank deep for weeks because I didn't pay these paid directories. It's good experiment though for me to see that Google's ranking is much more on linking not based in the actual relevance of the websites. I hope things will change in the future that relevant sites with no money for advertisements, linking and promotions will at least be visible on the web. Honestly, most of the links in the web are not natural, organic but based on partnering with other websites, submission to paid and unpaid directories. Directories are no longer being visited by actual web users but webmasters trying to rank high in search engines. Many are suggesting to make my site a link-bait ... to require other sites to link to me first, then I will add their links. In my opinion they may be good in the early days of Google but search engines must mature to find sites based on actual relevance that cannot be gamed and manipulated. Unfortunately Yahoo and Live are just trying to copy this linking ranking that's why they won't come close to Google.
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