SMX Wrap-Up on Beginning SEO Podcast
June 27, 2007 | Filed Under Conferences, Podcast, PubCon, SEO/SEM, SES, SMX | Leave a Comment
While it’s a little late, the Beginning SEO Podcast did not want to be left out of the spate of “SMX Wrap-Ups” so… here it is. Since Brian and NeO didn’t go, it’s pretty much them asking me questions about the conference and of course I blather on and on about it because… well… I like the sound of my own voice. (Just kidding. I actually can’t listen to myself on recordings for some reason. What I hear when I listen to recordings of myself doesn’t sound like what I think I sound like, if that makes any sense. It’s weird. That being said, though, I am a chatterbox… but anyway, I digress…)
Beginning SEO Podcast SMX Wrap-Up — Download the MP3
Brent Csutoras, Lisa Barone, Carolyn Shelby at MSN Party at SMX Advanced 2007
In the interest of keeping the topic focused on issues relevant to beginners, we discuss the tone and subject matter of SMX Advanced, and at what point in your learning curve you should consider attending. If you’re not to the point where you think you could hang with the big dogs of search, we also recommend some alternative conferences where you can catch more basic sessions and get up to speed.
For other stuff on SMX Advanced 2007, see:
- Long Overdue SMX Wrap-Up - moi
- Live Blogged Sessions from SMX Advanced - Search Engine Roundtable
- You’re all bright people… go do a search :P
[Photo: Brent Csutoras, Weird Asia News; Lisa "The Lisa" Barone, Bruce Clay; Carolyn "cshel" Shelby; Hanging out at the MSN sponsored SMX party on Sunday night]
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Google cannot see past private registrations
November 29, 2006 | Filed Under Domains, PubCon | 13 Comments
This whole “can Google see past/around private domain registrations” thing that came out of the Interactive SERP Site Review session at PubCon Vegas has been bothering me a little, not because I’m worried (because I’m not, okay? I’m not). But in the interest of furthering the academic discourse, I decided to do a little research.
I im’d a friend of mine who used to work for Moniker and asked if he had access to, or if anyone from the registrar side had access to, the WHOIS info on private domain registrations. His reply was that “only registrars have access to the private domain registration information, but only for those domains they hold/manage”.
So, Google, although a registrar, does not have access to anyone’s private WHOIS info because Google doesn’t manage or handle registrations for the general public.
To confirm this, I also read ICANN’s “Preliminary Task Force Report on Whois Services” issued on 22 November 2006. If you look under Summary of task force discussion (including proposals for access to data) you’ll see the following:
There are two different classes of requests for registration information.
1) Requests for information about registrations that are managed through a private registration or registration proxy service (a “type 1″ request)
2) Requests for information for regular, non-proxy/non-private registrations. (a “type 2″ request)
These requests are typically dealt with differently by registrars.
Requests are typically taken in by a single point of contact at a registrar which liaises with or escalates to the registrars legal department or staff.
There’s other information in the report, but that’s the part that I think is the most clear. It confirms what my contact said, which is that registrars have access to the registration data for private registrations, but only for the domains they manage.
So, Google cannot see past private registration protection. That being said, it doesn’t mean webmasters are not being profiled. It just means they aren’t using special, non-public information to build the profiles. (See comments to my previous post)
Just an update… I know I’ll sleep better tonight. ;)
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