But supposedly, where you host your site isn’t supposed to matter, right?

However, what if the site linking to you (that’s physically right down the block) is hosted across the country? Is it really less valuable then?

That seems silly, but if so, there’s a strong case to be made for everyone to host locally, right?

Maybe Matt will weigh in?

Matter of fact; I just took a call from a SEO who has been in this industry for about as long as I have, but with a low profile. He called me specifically to introduce himself and to tell me he agrees totally with me about ALL things about this industry and what I write. Go figure? He’s from Canada and he aTTENDED the conference you speak about. He totally hated it. He also is posting in the Lisa Barone thread and just cannot believe the sorry people who praised that lyndon character and who also make up the “majority” of spin members. That’s a fact.

You can ridicule and talk about me all you want… and I want you to do so, but just remember that there are many more in this industry who do agree with me about most things. That’s another fact.

Trust me bud; I’m not the only one who thinks those conferences are total crapola. I’m just the only one who seems to call you all out about it. You need to expand your knowledge about actually WHO makes up this industry. You would soon realize that conference goers are a VERY small part of it. …. and for good reasons.

BTW: I’m happy I’m known at the conference. It gives me the warm fuzzie-wuzzies. LOL

However, I did have a real interesting conversation with someone at the SEOmoz party about the tactic of wasting people’s time by creating controversy just for the sake of controversy, and guess whose name was the first one to come up?

Thanks for your input…