Posts on State of Search about ‘Events’

Exclusive Interview: Danny Sullivan about SMX East, Google and a changing industry

Conference season has started again. If you are an eager (search) marketer wanting to learn stuff you can really make some steps in the next few months with lots of conferences around. Off course State of Search will be present. Sometimes speaking, sometimes blogging.

Mid-September we will be at SMX Stockholm where no less than three bloggers are speaking. A week before that however is SMX New York. We will try to get coverage from there too. Leading up to SMX East we are already looking forward to this conference. We talked to organizer, editor in chief of Searchengineland, and probably the most famous person in search next to Matt Cutts, Danny Sullivan about the show and his view on the current developments in search. Danny talks about his job as an organizer, what we can expect from the show and also gives us an insight into his thoughts about the changing industry. (more…)

Li Evans (@storyspinner) Reporting on SES San Francisco: Day Two

Li Evans , author of the book Social Media Marketing (reviewed here), is one of the speakers at SES San Francisco 2011. She is also a good friend of State of Search and has agreed to give us her insights on what goes on in San Francisco. Later today you can see some interviews she did at the Expo Hall, but here is her update of day two and a quick overview of what it all looks like there.

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A Speakers View on SES San Francisco: Li Evans (@storyspinner) reports

This week in San Francisco it is SES San Francisco, the major online marketing event in San Francisco when it comes to search and social. Unfortunately we couldn’t be there ourselves this year to report on the conference like we did last year. However, we are doing something very special.

Our good friend Li Evans, author of the book Social Media Marketing (reviewed here), is speaking at the conference and is doing training sessions for attendees. She kindly agreed to give us an insight view on what she is doing there. With her camera she records how she experiences SES San Francisco 2011. (more…)

Google Developer Timothy Jordan Talks Google+ for SES San Francisco

This week San Francisco is host to one of the bigger SES Events in the year: SES San Francisco. Again many marketers will gather to absorb information from experts in search and social. You can expect something special from us too.

One of the topics will off course be Google+, how to handle it, how to make it work. And what does it really mean? Searchenginewatch already looked forward to this by doing an interview with Developer Advocate at Google Timothy Jordan, who will be talking about Google+ in San Francisco. (more…)

BlueGlass announce their 2011 TPA conference

BlueGlass have announced their next conference, BlueGlass TPA 2011, which will take place in Tampa, Florida on September 26th and 27th. From the press release:

BlueGlass TPA will provide its participants with 10 incredible online marketing panels & session along with constant opportunities to connect with leaders, speakers, and others in the industry over breakfasts, lunches, dinners, hosted cocktail hours and team building events.

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The UK Search Awards: celebrating the very best in SEO and PPC

This year for the first time the UK Search Awards are organized. In several different categories the best in Search for the UK are chosen. The organizers, who are also organizing SASCON, are planning to make this big.

We talked to Peter Young, one of the organizers (and State of Search Blogger off course) and asked him about the awards.

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Panda – The Quality Bear of Search eats Affiliates

It has already been two weeks since the A4Uexpo in Munich, but I still want to cover the “Panda-session”, because it was one of the best sessions at this conference. Ralf Schwoebel of the downloadportal Tradebit, one of the victims of Panda, started the session explaining what changes he did to get back on track. After that Dixon Jones, Marketing Manager of Majestic SEO, showed the results of some research Majestic SEO did.

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Sam Crocker and Kelvin Newman about affiliates, conferences and Panda

At A4U Expo we have been doing several interviews with speakers and attendees. Two of the speakers were actually State of Search bloggers: Samuel Crocker and Kelvin Newman are two very smart young men with a strong opinion and a good view on the world of Search and Social Media.

In this interview with Bas van den Beld they talk about the difference between affiliate conferences and search conferences, the differences between affiliates and SEOs, the Panda Update, the future of SEO and much more. Check out also what Sam wrote about the future of SEO!

Rather listen to it on your iPod? Download the mp3 here!

The Future of SEO

Today I want to walk you through and talk you through some of the interesting conversations that emerged from a panel comprised almost entirely of State of Search bloggers on Monday at a4uexpo in Munich! I joined up with Martijn, Roy, and Kelvin to discuss what the future of SEO may look like and what’s in store over the next few years.

This is not an exhaustive look nor is it necessarily reflective of what the future will look like for SEO because hey, as I’m sure Harold Camping can attest, we can’t predict the future. However, I’m going to do my best to summarise here the different viewpoints from the panel as well as the audience so please feel free to disagree, even I disagree with some of the predictions but we’ve all used our experience to try and figure out what is in the future of our quickly maturing industry. (more…)