SMX West

[mike]

SMX West is just a week out now and of course we'll be there. If you haven't registered... you really are taking the whole procrastination thing a little too far at this point.

I always look forward to meeting WebProWorld people at the shows, so if you see a bald guy with a video camera nearby... it's probably me so be sure to flag me down.

For those of you who will be unable to attend, you should find plenty of show coverage both here and in WebProNews to keep you in the loop and at least give you a taste of what goes on (though you really should go if you can-- it's a lot more fun).

We'll have special pages on WebProNews dedicated to all of our show coverage and I'll be sure to come back and update this post to a link to it once it exists.

Beyond that, I wanted to throw some names out of a few people I hope to catch up with a little bit and see if you guys had any good ideas for questions/topics/subjects.

I don't have anything set in stone with anybody yet... OK, I haven't even sent any of them emails yet... But I am pretty sure I can get a few minutes with most of them. So if you have anything on your mind you'd like to get some straight from the horse's mouth kind of answers for, now's your chance.

Obviously, this isn't any kind of exhaustive list either... I'm sure I'll run into all kinds of interesting SEOers out there. So if you have just anything you'd like to see discussed in general.. feel free to throw it in the pot too.

Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Search Engine Land

Vanessa Fox, Features Editor, Search Engine Land

Andrew Goodman, Founder and Principal, Page Zero Media

Dana Todd, Chief Marketing Officer, Newsforce

Eric Enge, President, Stone Temple Consulting

Todd Friesen, Vice President of Search, Visible Technologies

Gord Hotchkiss, President and CEO, Enquiro

Bill Tancer, General Manager, Global Research, Hitwise

Matt Van Wagner, President, Find Me Faster

Chris Sherman, Executive Editor, Search Engine Land

Eric Ward, CEO, EricWard.com

Matt Cutts, Software Engineer, Google

Shari Thurow, Founder and SEO Director, Omni Marketing Interactive

Stephan Spencer, President, Netconcepts

Andy Beal, Internet Marketing Consultant, MarketingPilgrim.com

Rand Fishkin, CEO, SEOMoz

Neil Patel, CTO, Advantage Consulting Services

Natala Menezes, Product Manager - adCenter, Microsoft

Ken Jurina, President and Founder, Epiar

Michael Gray, President, Graywolf's SEO Blog

Rebecca Kelley, Search Marketing Consultant, SEOmoz

John Marshall, CTO and Founder, Market Motive

Brett Crosby, Senior Manager, Google Analytics

Greg Boser, President, 3 Dog Media

Jake Baille, Managing Director, STN Labs

Priyank Garg, Director Product Management, Yahoo! Search

Jeremy Schoemaker, President, Shoemoney Media Group

Jennifer Slegg, Owner, JenSense.com

Barry Schwartz, SEOroundtable.com

[kgun]

Originally Posted by mike

SMX West is just a week out now and of course we'll be there. If you haven't registered... you really are taking the whole procrastination thing a little too far at this point.

I always look forward to meeting WebProWorld people at the shows, so if you see a bald guy with a video camera nearby... it's probably me so be sure to flag me down.

For those of you who will be unable to attend, you should find plenty of show coverage both here and in WebProNews to keep you in the loop and at least give you a taste of what goes on (though you really should go if you can-- it's a lot more fun).

We'll have special pages on WebProNews dedicated to all of our show coverage and I'll be sure to come back and update this post to a link to it once it exists.

Beyond that, I wanted to throw some names out of a few people I hope to catch up with a little bit and see if you guys had any good ideas for questions/topics/subjects.

I don't have anything set in stone with anybody yet... OK, I haven't even sent any of them emails yet... But I am pretty sure I can get a few minutes with most of them. So if you have anything on your mind you'd like to get some straight from the horse's mouth kind of answers for, now's your chance.

Obviously, this isn't any kind of exhaustive list either... I'm sure I'll run into all kinds of interesting SEOers out there. So if you have just anything you'd like to see discussed in general.. feel free to throw it in the pot too.

My proposals:

1. Chris Sherman, Executive Editor, Search Engine Land. Ask him about the staus of the invisible web: Searchwise - Chris Sherman's Search Engine & Invisible Web Consulting or Invisible-web.net - Searchable databases and specialized search engines
   IncyWincy: The Invisible Web Search Engine
   
   Related link: Can't Find On Google - list
2. Matt Cutts, Software Engineer, Google. The staus of rel="nofollow" on internal and outbound links. Anything new on spamfilters - the status of OpenId at Google -
   openid-test - Google Code
   
   Technology Leaders Join OpenID Foundation to Promote Open Identity Management on the Web ,
   
   PageRank and TrustRank. Algorithmic news. New tools or resources.
3. Rand Fishkin, CEO, SEOMoz ideally together with Matt Cutts. Status on paid links and ad links.
4. Brett Crosby, Senior Manager, Google Analytics. Any new tools to survey adSense links. Tracking reports etc?

Regarding OpenID: Read the short article: Autenthication using OpenID. Note that february 7 2008, it was announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo have joined the board. This is a definite step to a safer web and reducing spam.

[incrediblehelp]

Have fun out there Mike!!

[bobitza]

Hey Mike,

If you still have room on the questions links I got two:

1. Technical question:
When are the SEO changes on-site and off-site recognized? Is there a difference between onsite and offsite, like for example on-site recognition on the spot (when it's crawled) and off-site only with PR updates or something periodically ...

2. Trend Question:
With the ad fatigue and the need for (even more) relevant content, what do they thing of marketing and SEO merging in the future as one service. Is there a trend towards that or not?

[mike]

Good questions guys. Notes made...

Anybody else?

[kgun]

Social media optimization.

There are three threads. In chronological order:

1. Add To: Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo My Web | Furl, and others
2. SMO:: Social media optimization content and IBL's
3. For best SEO - Social networking direct links, or 3rd party tools like AddThis ?

BusinessWeek February 20, 2008, 12:01AM EST:

Social Media Will Change Your Business

"Companies over the past few centuries have gotten used to shaping their message. Now they're losing control of it.
Want to get it back? You never will, not entirely. But for a look at what you're facing, come along for a tour of the blogosphere".

And note:

"The potential bubbles are in Internet advertising and in Web 2.0 companies, including social networks. VC investment in Web 2.0 companies rose to $464 million in the first half of 2007, according to data released by Dow Jones VentureOne and Ernst & Young".

[kgun]

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