The San Francisco PHP Meetup Group

SEO for Developers

Feb '09 12 Thu 6:30 PM

Location: CBS Interactive

235 2nd St
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 344-2000

Estimated attendance: 75 people attended.
4.5014 (14 ratings)
Who organized?
Mariano Peterson and Mike Tougeron

Please note the slightly different date & time

(Note: Unfortunately Dormando is sick today so we're rescheduling his Memcache Q&A session for a future meetup)

David Gomel, Senior Program Manager leading SEO within CBS Interactive, will speak about SEO in a Web 2.0 world. The session will cover many of the important SEO issues that involve front and back-end engineers on a daily basis. Many of the decisions that tech folks make have the potential to materially impact search engine traffic. Even if you have been to a similar talk in the past, you should consider attending as we will be discussing topics that are frequently evolving. Please bring questions!

Topics will include:

HTML fundamentals
CSS Usage
JavaScript/Flash/Ajax
Graceful Degradation
Multimedia Content
Duplicate Content
Redirection
URLs
Bot Traffic
Robots.txt

...And More!

David Gomel is the Senior Program Manager leading SEO within CBS Interactive. He is responsible for SEO knowledge sharing and training within the company.

Agenda:
6:30 - 7:15 -- Doors open/general socializing & food
7:15 - 8:15 -- Main presentation by David Gomel on SEO.
8:30 - 9:00 -- Main presentation Q&A
9:00 - 10:00 -- General discussion/Q&A/networking/etc.
10:00ish -- end of group

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75 attendees
- Paul
  
  “ Nice to hear about what CNET is doing about SEO. Got in a few good tips that we'll be implementing for sure. ”
- david waclo
  
  “ Really excellent talk, very good back and forth with the presenter. I felt like I came out of there with a lot of knowledge about the subject. Thanks a ton! ”
- Jamie Flournoy
  
  “ The presentation was well structured and well delivered. The content was very clear, and I found it useful. I was convinced that the speaker knew his topic well. The talk ran pretty long (90 minutes, I think), mostly due to questions, but I stayed until the end. ”
- Kurt
  
  “ I'm not a developer, but was curious about the subject--and the speaker was clear, consise, excellent. ”
- Steve Lentzen
  
  “ It was really enlightening to see that there was a lot less voodoo in real world SEO than many others would lead you to believe. ”
- Mary Yi
  
  “ This is an important area for web site developers. I'm still learning it. ”
- Mike Tougeron
- jose d lopez
- Chris C
- Parijat Kalia
- mai wurd
- Chris
- philhardaker
- Oswald
- Christopher Peri
- stevegoodwin
- Phil Quinn
- Danny
- Eric Theise
- Scott Hildebrand
- Ian Shields
- Johan Mickelin
- Ping-Hsien Lin
- fuad
- Michael
- Andrey
- Jeff Moore
- Stuart
- Dave Edelhart (+1 guest)
- Marcos
- PAS
- Stephan Branczyk
- Sana
- Firebrand
- Nan
- Edmond Hui
- Sachin Anand
- Nathan Smith
- Ronnie Liew
- Michael
- David Dull
- Peter Spangler
- estelle
- David Triebwasser
- Beau Lebens
- Kim Flournoy
- Janis Rough
- Milena
- Alka Gupta
- Steffen Frost