The https issue certainly is going to be a running sore in SEO and Internet marketing/analytics in general. I wonder, though, whether they have jumped from teh privacy frying pan into the antitrust/monopoly fire? Their stated objective – to organize (or was it control?) the world’s information is pretty much realized. But with control comes responsibility and in many ways, lots of well intensioned Googlers do “good stuff” which conspires unexpectedly into something potentially evil… Google’s own ecosystem is lookin a bit like the starlings in the video wouldn’t you say?

Ultimately, the reach and low cost of WP will win out – see also Apache – and the slog of getting there will ease up. And of course, using SuperCache is the only real way to deploy WP – at which point you’re effectively using the same architectural approach as MT.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Nick, and to everyone who’s chipped in – particularly the insightful note from Dave.

Its a big business culture thing I suppose.

1. The coming WP 3.0 addresses some of the MU complexity issues – it really does work.
2. It’s possible to harden WP versions and installations adequately in order to protect the implementation. You also have to consider the nature of the vulnerabilities – not all are critical to a given installation.
3. From within an enterprise, eg for Intranets, attacks on WP are very limited and there is less of a need to consider the four monthly upgrade cycle.
4. It’s possible to back-port a lot of the fixes. As our Enterprise client base grows we’re looking at offering this as a service, but there’s complexity in managing this that needs to be addressed but we feel we have answers.

What WP needs is a company with an Enterprise focus that can contribute the requirements of Enterprise into the system and/or maintain a fork that fits better. We are that kind of company, but until recently there wasn’t enough interest to justify the expenditure. However, interest has improved dramatically since late 2009 and as a consequence we have plans that will help to make WP something that is far more attractive to the large companies both from an Extranet and an Intranet perspective.

2010 is, I feel, going to be the year where WP starts to hit the Enterprise sweet spot.

I remember speaking with you which must be over a year ago now and you mentioned all of the above.

I plan to take a look at MT over the next few weeks as more to do with learning what else is out there, but want to compare with wordpress.

I agree that I have found wordpress very hard to be scalable and a few of my bigger projects I have had to move from wordpress to custom sites.

I have a lot of blogs and I have yet to automate plugin updates and wordpress upgrades, therefore I have to login into every blog – time consuming and time wasted.

I also think the real story behind this campaign is doing an article on Marc Andreessen, a founder of Netscape and a board member of Facebook, the guy who first met Obama and pulled everything together for him.

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Thanks you your great answer.

By analogy, its why there are still business systems consultants and PR companies.

Thanks for the comment BTW kev

in fact, in about 95% of cases we’ve looked at, our sites are performing somewhere between mildly and dramatically better on Caffeine at this point.

I would agree with you its possibly the death of SEO spam, and article marketing in particular, but that’s far from the death of real SEO.

there is no escape from the fact that all the time webbies keep building $h1t sites, there will always be a need for real SEO.

Thanks for your contribution to WordCampUK – the SEO information you shared is very valuable to me and I got loads to go through from your presentation.

Your input in the Site Surgery session was also of great value – consultations with expertise such as yours is a rare thing… and I also picked up a couple of extra gems in that session too!

I hope you can attend WordCampUK next year and look forward to bumping into you in the future!

I can speak for ipadio re the business model. Rather than advertising, it centres on the development of bespoke applications (private channels, shared revenue services with community owners, developing niche applications etc). So take Betfair, we’d work with you to develop a bespoke service that might have secure channels for your different sports, Tweeting to your followers on new commentaries, email to those who don’t Tweet, maybe even content generated by your punters?

We’ve 30 or so different conversations on the go, and it looks like the English Golf Union will be first to the post (apologies for the pun) with coverage from the Brabazon this weekend.

jd

Glad to provide something of use to you.

All the best!

Barry.

I’ve been banging the sites out in WordPress (and to a lesser extent Drupal) recently and discovered it’s much more flexible than it originally was.

I’ll not link spam but write the URLs
http://www.underdogpoker.co.uk
http://www.europeancashgame.com
are both a couple of sites I’ve just set up in WordPress and neither of which you would class as a traditional blog.

I’ve gone off All In One SEO, I use Headspace 2 now for the most part.

A good resource on how to optimise WordPress was written by Joost de Valk
http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

Hopefully catch up with you later,
Barry.

This is an excellent presentation and really appreciate for your great work. The presentation which shows SEO success Map is great. In a single slide itself you have explained the process in SEO.

Thanks,
Rathna