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SearchFest 2009 early bird discount

Come find me and say hi at the premier search engine marketing conference in the Pacific Northwest. Whether you’ve attended SearchFest in the past or not, this is not the year to miss. There’s a full day of search marketing brilliance, highlighted by a keynote from Danny Sullivan. Yes, that Danny Sullivan.

Be sure to join me for a session I’m moderating called, “Beyond Theory: SEO Tips from the Trenches.” I’d be thrilled to have any one of my panelists in the lineup, but to have these four is a moderator’s dream.

Marshall Simmonds - New York Times
Laura Lippay - Yahoo
Jeff Quipp - SearchEnginePeople
Derrick Wheeler - Microsoft

Register now and take advantage of the early bird discount.

See you at SearchFest on Tuesday, March 10 2009!

See my latest article in June issue of MultiLingual magazine

Check out my latest article in the June 2008 issue of MultiLingual magazine. It is in a special regional focus section on Japan and is about localizing websites and software for Japan.

It's a fairly short article. I take a brief look back at the history of Japanese localization and then cover some dramatic changes over the past few years. I also touch on some key considerations when localization a website for Japanese visitors and search engines.

Check it out and let me know if you'd like me to elaborate on anything I bring up in the article!

Free download: Presenation from SearchFest 2008

It was great to meet those of you who were able to make it to SearchFest 2008 yesterday here in Portland. It was a fantastic conference. I speak at and attend a lot of conferences and it's always a pleasant surprise when one goes as smoothly as this one did. It ran on time, the food and beverages were great, the rooms weren't too hot or too cold, all the audio and video equipment worked... An event like this is no accident. Kudos to the SEMpdx folks, the volunteers and the Oregon Zoo catering crew.

I took it as a good sign when I flipped open one of the free magazines being given away, Website Magazine, and found that the first article was entitled Geo Targeting Countries For SEO. It offered a solid, albeit brief introduction to international search engine optimization and covered some of what I had in my presentation. It's great to see this kind of visibility for international SEO. It's definitely a sign of things to come.

All the SearchFest 2008 speakers were first rate. You should be able to download all their presentations as they're uploaded to the site over the next few days. You can download mine from the event website, or grab it here:

International Search Visibility: Go Where the Growth Is (PDF - 726KB)

Please bear in mind that it was only a 30-minute session—including Q&A time. So it's a very high-level view of things. It would take a half-day seminar to do the topic justice. Please ping me if you'd like more information on anything I talked about. Or anything related that I didn't talk about!

I'm thinking about doing an online seminar with an expanded version of this presentation, so stay tuned here or let me know to contact you when I do that.

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Come say hi at SearchFest 2008 this Monday

If you're going to be in Portland this coming Monday, March 10—or if you can make it to Portland—please consider attending SearchFest 2008. It's the premier area event for search marketing professionals and those looking to learn how to optimized their sites. [Click the logo to learn more and register]

SEMpdx brings you SearchFest 2008, a full-day search engine marketing conference featuring multiple learning sessions and expert panels to help you leverage search engine marketing (SEM) in your organization. Whether you are an SEM professional, work in an advertising agency or part of an in-house marketing department, SearchFest 2008 will connect you with the leading thinkers and practitioners in SEM today.

I'm doing a session on how to gain maximum visibility in the major international search engines: China, Japan, Germany and so forth. It's a short session so I won't be able to go into a great deal of detail, but we'll have a Q&A session at the end and I'll be sticking around to discuss and answer questions after.

Hope to see you there!

Link:
SearchFest 2008