Someone from Yahoo is coming to SEO days to talk about the new Panama system as confirmed here and here.

It’s amazing how quickly everything has been organised for this event and I’m sure it’ll be a great experience too

As you may already know, SEO Days is the new conference headed by David Naylor (AKA. DaveN) Greg Boser (AKA. WebGuerrilla and Jennifer Slegg (AKA. Jenstar).  The conference is being held in London at the Hilton Hotel.  They have guest speakers from a number of great places too.

It’s going to be a great event, and if you don’t have a ticket, get one now.

PS. I’m going too see you there

MSN have updated there SERP’s page, again in the page of two days. They could of done this the same day to help conserve blogging energy! Anyway, MSN have updated two things today so that sames my blogging energy for tomorrow

The first thing you’ll notice now when you go to MSN is the new search box. Looks pretty much exactly the same however it’s got a cool little eye-catching mouseover glow to it. Here’s a screenshot of it in effectI thought it was pretty cool

I thought it was pretty cool anyway

The second thing which a few people may not of noticed is how MSN have got rid of those stupid > < buttons to go next/previous buttons and now have ‘next’ and ‘previous’ instead.

Good to see MSN improving the layout even if the SERPs themselves aren’t improving

Didn’t take Google to copy MSN on this one. Everytime you do a search on Google for whatever, right at the bottom of the page above the page links, it displays a related searches section now

Also to all UK residents, it only appears on Google.com at the moment, same as MSN. here’s a screenshot using the legendary search on cars:

MSN are implementing new changes onto there SERP’s, just like Google has been recently. However MSN have gone a bit further than changing colours round, they have recently implemented a new ‘Related Searches:’ section on www.msn.com top right when you do a search, any search, I haven’t found a search where they don’t return this.  Here’s a quick look at the new related search box when I did a search for ‘Cars’:

So is this because MSN may think people are interested in the results and may find them helpful, or is this MSN showing off there LSI skills, or even, both?

In case you didn’t know, MSN have recently issued a new Patent about duplicate entries on one search page.  The first thing that springs to mind is that any page that’s listed in the organic with multiple entries, like www.domain.com Vs. www.domain.com/index.html, it would be perfectly fine for MSN to do this.  However as Bill posted at Search Engine Land is that it does not specify if this Patent is going to affect the organic side of things , the PPC side of things or scarily still, both.

Now what that could mean is that if you have a PPC ad with Adcenter and have a good organic listing in MSN, your organic could be thrown out of the window because you have a PPC ad.   So you can’t truely dominate the SERP’s if the latter does come true and will hurt advertisers and will screw over MSN in the long run I reckon.

Now, if the latter does come true, there’s a very obvious exploit already in this new Patent.  If Organic listings are getting banned (they may only get pushed down, you never know) when you have a PPC ad on the same SERP’s page, why not make ads for your competition!  Dunno about the rest of you but I’d quite happily pay pence to see a competitor say bye bye to there organic listing.