The folks at Google webmaster help group sent me a t-shirt, and a card with some notes from the whole Google webmaster central team.

Awww shucks, I love t-shirts and I really appreciate the fact that they took the time to do that. Good stuff.

Vannesa, Adam, and Maile have really made a difference in the way that webmasters and search engines communicate.

More importantly, however, is the way they give me T-shirts and coffee cups. I like that.

There have been times that I have been critical of the way things were going down in the Google help group, but they have constantly improved and innovated and added things that webmasters asked for. Google is a group of people and those people really listen to what you as a webmaster says. I can honestly say that I have seen the input given by webmasters implemented throughout many facets of the Google world.

Mostly due to the great Searchengineland article about Googlers , Maile has been known as the girl in a blonde wig hugging a giant Racoon.

Her role in Google encompasses more than racoon hugging, and she is an Google support engineer, and a busy and effective one at that. She has been an important piece of the help group and her efforts are noticeable and appreciated. (thanks Maile!)

Hawaiian lesson of the day….But her name is what was interesting to me, because I always knew the word “maile” as something very different than a Google engineer.

Thank you, Google webmaster team!

I am now in Canada! This is me on my new patio in Toronto.

The easiest way to get a mention on SEOish is to give me a Tshirt. Sad but true.

For example, when Acquisio gave me one of their now famous “I hate doing this shit” t-shirts, I knew that for damn sure I would be checking them out and giving them some link love. T-shirts are great. You know how after a conference you are hazy and confused after all the drinking, information overload, and meeting 12,000 people?

Well T-shirts serve as absolute reminders of something. They are right there in my bag and I can see them and touch them. I am dumb, I require such simplicity. I don’t want to have to remember a products web page, I want a t-shirt with that address on there.

Now, even if you don’t give me a tshirt, you can still get some SEOish link love. Lisa from SEO Chicks didn’t give me a t-shirt. But she rocks and so does her blog where she has conveniently gathered together all the smart search hotties in one easy to find place. The new addition of some familiar faces over there pleases me to no end.

(Hi Dewitt! Hi Rebecca!)

If anyone wants to give me a tshirt, I will link to them. Pretty simple, no? I am thinking of starting an SEO directory that consists solely of companies that have provided me a t-shirt.

Rhea has a new blog that I wanted to mention, even though she has not provided me with a t-shirt.

Barry Schwartz gets a bubble which is about neato as can be and he also mentions a very very interesting article about how 25 percent of search queries in Google are new and so longtail is super important and search is hard to do… awww poor Google.

Didn’t I already explain this whole thing using midgets and recycling?

SERoundtable wraps up SES Latino is a pretty package, much as they had done with SMX earlier.

MarketingPilgrim continues working on weekends to tell us about the search strategies event in New Zealand. The part that stuck out in my brain is that the event was 40 percent women, which means I will probably be covering this event next time because New Zealand women (Kiwis) often look like this.