SMX Advanced is right around the corner and the Yahoo! Search team is in on the Seattle action. If you're heading to the Bell Harbor International Conference Center as well, be sure to check out our panels.

Tuesday, June 3rd

Time: 1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Session: Bot Herding
Description: This session looks at some advanced techniques in herding bots and how search engines view cloaking issues today.
Yahoo!: Priyank Garg, Director, Product Management

Wednesday, June 4th

Time: 9 -10 a.m.
Session: Search Friendly Development
Description: Highlights the most important elements to consider for SEO when building a web app infrastructure and provides tactical details about how to implement those elements.
Yahoo!: Sharad Verma, Senior Manager, Product Management

Time: 12 - 1:30 p.m.
Session: Building Search-Friendly Web Applications
Description: This casual tabletop discussion is taking place during lunch at Developer Day.
Yahoo!: Paul Tarjan, Technical Yahoo!

Time: 1:45 - 3 p.m.
Session: Analytics Every SEO Needs To Know
Description: This session focuses on analytics that SEOs should be considering.
Yahoo!: Laura Lippay, Group Program Manager, Search Strategy

For more on Yahoo!'s whereabouts, head over to the YSM Blog. See you there!

Yahoo! Search Blog team