The O'Reilly search aquisition conference which was due to take place June 9-11th in Burlingame, California has been postponed, according to the O'Reilly website, "Due to the challenging economic environment".

We take that to mean that their rather high price for seats put the majority of people interested off.

The notice continues with. "If you would like to continue the conversation on making the web easier to find, please visit janeandrobot.com and follow twitter.com/janeandrobot to become part of the community, read the latest on technical SEO issues from industry experts, and attend local technical SEO meetups.".

Perhaps nobody found the site in natural search? Or maybe it's just time for conferences to start looking at the continued high price tags for day seminars and gauging their value to the end user?

Reading through my ever increasing and busy Twitter stream this morning, I picked up on a tweet from online music magazine drownedinsound.com.

It simply said 'Sign of the recession: insane (like 2000!) "i've been made redundant" and "no longer works here" out of office replies to our mailout.'

It got me thinking. How can we analyse our email marketing bounces to improve our results and understand more about our market area?

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