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That’s it. I’m cutting myself off. Four conferences in ten days<\/b> is my max. But oh, did my conferencing streak end with a good one…\"\"Today I attended the Search Engine Strategies<\/a> Conference and Google Dance<\/a>. My host was Matt VanWagner, a speaker at the conference and the CEO of Find Me Faster<\/a>, a major search engine marketing agency on the east coast. He brought me along into the expo center (where I ran into BrainJams’ Chris Heuer<\/a> and Kristie Wells<\/a>), and also into a session on building good website architecture. Interesting tidbit from the session:<\/b> You know those websites that use dropdown menus on their homepages, requiring users to choose a country or language before they can even enter the site? Well rumor has it, by doing this they’re preventing search engine spiders from getting through and properly indexing the pages within. “Spiders don’t have mice.”In addition to this, I also attended a private meeting with Matt at Google, where he met with his account reps and discussed his experiences with Google AdWords. I have to say, on Google’s behalf, that they genuinely cared about Matt’s feedback, took his requests seriously, and showed a ton of appreciation for his business. That just cemented my respect for them. I was impressed. They also demonstrated some new products, like the AdWords Editor<\/a> and their new Video AdWords<\/a> capabilities. I’m actually really excited about the video ads for two reasons:<\/p>\n