SEO Seminars & Conventions

Anyone know of some reeeeeeeally good SEO conventions and seminars that are comming up??

Got any recommendations??


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Yep, we with www.samarainternet.ru in Russia,Samara yesterday had a best seminar ;)

I will probably go to the http://www.jupiterevents.com/ meeting in New York - June 15/16. Its not really SEO, more like online business, conversion and marketing. Never attended one of these before.

I learned a lot at the March Search Engine Strategies Conference in NY - also jupiterevents.com.... was good, don't know if it would meet your... "reeeeeeeally good" criteria.

I believe I will be attending the August 2-5 convention in San Jose. Looks good. If its not sold out.



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I am thinking about San Jose too. Anybody else going to that one?

hope to.

I've yet to go to one of these...to be honest, I don't see a lot of value in it. Perhaps I'm jaded by all the other professional seminars I've been to that really aren't much of anything than a networking meeting. Is anything said that materially affects the way you do or plan to do business at these seminars; stuff that couldn't be derived by reading threads started by Rustbrick, SEO-guy, et al? I'm a frugal guy.

Cygnus

I would love to go to one of these - but only because I would find it fun to meet some of the folks I talk to on the forums. Like you, cygnus, I doubt I'd gain much in the way of actual knowedge. Never know though, one tiny little nugget could spark a new idea. (like i need any of those...my family already says i dream up way too many ideas).

Well, if you decide to go donna, lemme know and I'll bring the beer for the flight!




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Well I go and it drums up good posts here. ;)

To tell you the truth, I am not the networking type of guy. I go there, write notes, post my notes and then leave.

It is nice meeting SEO chatters at the conference and its nice meeting some of the industry experts. But i do not go to build a prospects list. I go because I love the topic of SEM. Most of what is spoken on is just basic stuff but you can get a few gems if you listen real hard.

What you should expect from the future SES conferences is the push on conversion rates over building traffic.

I too like to go and run into guys like Danny Sullivan, Mike Grehan, Kevin Lee, Brian Eisenberg, Andrew Goodman and many of the other big name SEO's.

Sometimes guys like Kevin Lee may sit next to you at lunch and B/S with you for over a half an hour. The ratio of speakers to non speakers is pretty high (maybe like 1 to 10 or 1 to 20). A good tip for running into many people is to sit in the front row.

Sounds like a perfectly good reason on it's own! I would not use one to look for clients though more to meet others in the industry to exchange ideas and make contacts that could be useful in the future.

Regards, S

You can read these boards until the sun don't shine but most of what you read is pure speculation - nothing more - and much of it posted by rookies such as myself.

But at these meetings you can listen CLOSELY to what the speakers from google and yahoo are saying - and you get nuggests of true information straight from the source. You also have a chance to get YOUR question(s) answered by these people, not only in the sessions, but also between sessions in the hall or at lunch.

Some of the sessions include reviews of websites and point out features that make them successful or failures - again getting your questions answered if you only take the initiative of asking.

If you go to one of these meetings and don't come back with a long "to do" list for your sites then you are either an expert already or you spent your time in the bar.

Often times what they are saying those has caps on it or is what they should say for the company. Craig Silverstein, for example, great speaker and funny guy...but he doesn't really devulge nuggets.

One of the things I think is really funny is to listen to how competitive the speakers from Teoma and Google are with each other. By listening to a few of the "meet the crawlers" type forums you would think that Teoma had more distribution than Yahoo and was right behind google.

The first SES I attended I went to the "meet the crawlers" hoping it would be a basket of goodies that I can just pick from. It was not, I went and left pretty much the same. But it was interesting to see Teoma go at Google. It was then when I became a Teoma fan.