Where’s Rand the First Half of 2009? London, Munich, Sydney, Reykjavik & More
2009 is shaping up to be my busiest travel period ever (and that's saying something). I'm going to be on the road a lot between February and June, and while it's nothing like the 250+ days per year guys like Enquisite's Richard Zwicky spends away from home, it does present a great opportunity to meet with lots more folks from the SEO community - quite possibly my favorite part of the job. If you are planning to attend any of the following, please keep an eye out and say hi!
2007/2008 Travel Photos from Sydney, Madrid & Beijing
I'll be speaking with Todd Malicoat & Lauren Vaccarello at the Online Marketing Summit - and I'm really excited about the session we're giving:
Stories from the Front Lines of SEO
Tales of mishap, success, woe and delight from decades in the SEO business. Rand Fishkin, Todd Malicoat & Lauren Vaccarello will share some of their most fascinating stories of mishap, success, woe and delight from their years in the search engine optimization business. If the best learning is doing, the second best is surely hearing how others have fared and applying that inspiration, so don't miss out. Note that some accounts may be anonymized to protect the innocent (and the not-so-innocent).
I expect it will be one of the more unique and hopefully valuable presentations I've given. If you've ever leaned your ear over the booth at a crowded SEO bar meetup to hear the war stories fly, expect more of that at OMS.
Wednesday & Thursday, February 11-12 | Santa Clara, CA
I'm on two panels at SMX West:
In House: Training the Company on SEO
In-house SEO isn’t easy, and often short staffed. In this session, you’ll learn how to bring in an SEO novice and work with the entire development team to help you execute SEO campaigns.
SEO Status Report Metrics
How are your SEO efforts going from a technical standpoint? This session looks at "status report" metrics you can tap into such as link counts, page counts and more.
For the In-House panel, I've got plans to talk about our experience training folks at large organizations like Microsoft, Real, NPR, etc. and how to build a culture of SEO into your business, rather than just apply it as an afterthought. On Status Report Metrics, we've been doing some really cool research about using metrics to predict both traffic and rankings, and I'll be sharing some of that for the first time publicly.
February 17-20 | London, UK
I'll be speaking on the Orion Panel on the second day of SES London, where I'll be interviewed by Mike Grehan, alongside Brett Tabke, Kevin Ryan, Chris Sherman & Jill Whalen. Definitely looking forward to not only London itself, a town I love, but this panel in particular, which I expect to have a lot of energy and some very unique opinions - as evidenced here.
March 20th | Reykjavik, Iceland
Kristjбn Mбr Hauksson and the awesome crew from Nordic eMarketing are hosting an exceptional conference experience in Iceland. We haven't determined what I'll be speaking on, but I'm thrilled to finally make it out to Iceland and speak alongside some very impressive search marketers. Given the incredibly low airfares (and the low cost of the conference itself), you should put this on your list of potential events if you haven't already. I'm particularly excited at the prospect of meeting some of the search folks from Yandex, Russia's largest search engine, as I don't have a lot of experience there.
April 2-3 | Sydney, Australia
As promised, I can't resist the pull of SMX Sydney and Barry Smyth's amazing hospitality. Last year, I wrote that this may have been the best conference I'd ever attended, so a repeat was certainly in store. Again, plans aren't yet finalized for what I'll be speaking on, but I'm certain there will be a few exciting topics (and maybe some more on-stage outing of spam). :-)
April 22-23 | SMX Munich
I'm extremely excited to return to Munich, this time to keynote the SMX conference. My talk will be:
What the Web's Link & Content Structures can Teach Us
There's a tremendous amount of information we've gleaned and lessons learned from building and researching an index of the WWW. Share in the fascintating statistics, and examples of both success & failure that can inform your search marketing strategy.
I think this will be one of my most unique presentations, as the data from our index and our efforts to building a considerable portion of search technology are revealed in a way best suited to help SEOs.
More to come as it's finalized (including, most likely, SMX Mexico City in November)... During this stretch, I'll also be in Boston, Washington DC and San Francisco, but I'll try to provide advance notice via the blog of any public events. It's certain to be a busy few months, but I'm looking forward to spending some time away from rainy Seattle :-)
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published @ January 23, 2009