I wanted to see Justin Smith of the Real Estate Tomato.  He wrote one of my favorite posts ever here on Active Rain.  As a former Diablo 2 player it really reasonated with me.  I also just came from a class about writing taught by Gretchen Faber and she had this listed as one of the two sites that influenced her the most.  He also lives in Castle Rock, which is just down the road from Denver so maybe I could see him personally for a drink when I visit one of the best outlet malls in the U.S.

He asked people, there were about 30 of us in the room what we were looking for.  He also looked at what people were using and 80 plus percent of the group was using WordPress.  That made me think about what I needed to be using.

He gave a great tool allinoneseo.com  This seemed like the most important thing that I need to be getting and this alone was worth the price of admission :)

Justin also talked about the importance of titles and showed how they actually showed up on Google.  You are limited to 65-70 characters and this was brand new information to me.  You are also not supposed to repeat the phrase more than once.  This message is to all you keyword stuffers out there.  You are also supposed to use dashes not commas.  Look above, see Justin I'm learning.

Duplicate content came up.  It sounded like there were two ways to get around this issue

1)  Always link from the copy to the original

2)  If you are going to do this then you should allow 2-3 weeks between postings to give Google time to update it

Tags are what I was concerned with.  I learned that tags were different on Active Rain versus what takes place on an outside blog.  On AR they work more like catagories on the right side.  This can make things to busy.  He suggested that you only use one or two at most.  On outside blogs they are not as important and he stated that he knows some very successful bloggers who don't use any at all.

The opening session and links to all sessions