The Yin and Yang at 2008 ADVANCED SMX

SMX Seattle 144 , originally uploaded by John Beagle . The redeye seems appropriate for this photo of Stephen Spencer and Danny Sullivan . It was taken at the end of the SMX Advanced 2008 in Seattle the place where in the know SEO’s go. It appears that Stephen is shooting laser beams at Danny for the final assault at the conference. SMX in Seattle did have a bit of Yin and Yang to it. Yin was the anti-Moralist SEO, Jay Young of Link Fish Media, Inc. Yang was Google’s SPAM Buster, Matt Cutts. Moderator of the Yins and Yangs was mild mannered, Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land. Danny’s job is to keep everyone playing nice. A boundary that was breached at 2 of the SEO sessions, "Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques" and "Give it UP!" Around 11 o’clock on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, the assault on white hat SEO’s was opened up by Jay Young with this salvo -’were not in this for the morals, were in it for the Marketing!’ Mr. Youn...