This morning I was fortunate to be able to participate in the ‘First-ever Google Webmaster Help Group Chat’. Though it was labeled as beta, it turned out to be a great session.

The group chat, hosted by Webex, consisted of a panel of 13 Googlers, namely our Google friends Matt Cutts and host Adam Lasnik.

After web-cam-assisted introductions, the Googlers reviewed a site which had been chosen from a small group of submissions to this thread. The very lucky site was pictureline and a comprehensive review covering design, usability and SEO was given. Pictureline was chosen since the site already implemented many SEO best practices, but still had room for review and improvement.