Video of Paid Links session at SES San Jose 2007 with:
Danny Sullivan - SearchEngineLand
Matt Cutts - Google
Greg Boser - WebGuerrilla
Dave Naylor - DaveN
Aaron Wall - SEO Book
Rand Fishkin - SEOMoz
This was a super secret session that bloggers aren’t allowed to blog about, but I managed to video it! Check it out before it gets DMCA’d.
[Warning: the dork factor of this video is extremely high.]
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Omg, that’s hilarious!
Wait… does that make me a dork…?
Don’t worry, after I finished uploading I had my wife watch it and my wife said, “Honey, it is kind of funny but it came out kind of dorky”!
Brilliant!
What a laugh! Probably true too, right?
I always wondered what the Google Bot looked like — frightful!
How did you make the video haha?
Great work
Very Funny! An armless Matt Cutts makes it tough to blog.
That was funny!!!
Robbie
Great video and great idea.
Even better, I saved $2000 passing on the SES conference and checking your blog.
Thanks everyone for the comments I had a lot of fun making it.
Glen, I basically bought some foam board to make the stage area and then shot the video takes - downloaded it to my computer and then edited and did the voice over work with Studio 8 which is about 4 years old and doesn’t even work on my new Vista machine.
Studio is so easy to use that even after years of not using it I could produce this video pretty quick.
I got a call from a friend that attended the real session on paid links this afternoon and he said they played my video before the session started!
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Pure Genius!!
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