The Top Ten SEO Conferences in the United States
August 31, 2010 
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This is a guest post by Amelia Von Wolffersdorff. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.
Whether you are new to the field of search engine optimization, or you are a professional in the web industry, you will no doubt find a conference that fits your needs from the following list. All of these U.S. conferences feature professionals from the industry who offer their own insights and experiences pertaining to search and web marketing.
1. eMetrics: Marketing Optimization Summit: This San Jose, California, conference features seminars on current tools and techniques as well as the best practices and lessons learned by professionals in the digital marketing industry. Speakers include marketing executives, authors, consultants, CEOs, and other experienced and engaging individuals. In addition, this conference offers face-to-face networking opportunities for its attendees.
2. Online Marketing Summit is a three-day event that occurs in over ten major U.S. cities each year. This conference offers three tracks, allowing beginner, intermediate, and expert-level practitioners to find seminars that suit their needs. Topics covered range from website usability and social media strategies, to website conversion and field marketing, to web marketing and eCommerce. Seminars and discussions are integrated with keynote speakers.
3. PubCon : Best suited for those with professional to expert experience, the PubCon conference covers topics such as search, net marketing, affiliates, and domainers. Pubcon spans four days and features 200 different speakers who are experts in the latest web technologies. This conference is located in a different U.S. city each year.
4. Search Engine Strategies is a search and social marketing event held in major cities around the United States. Designed for marketers and search engine optimization professionals, this conference teaches its attendees important points, including how to increase traffic via organic listings, how to avoid “spam” penalties, and how to improve the user experience.
5. Search Exchange: Internet Marketing Conference: Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, this conference features two keynote speakers who discuss pay per click advertising and social media marketing. In addition, other professionals in the industry participate in panel discussions on search engine optimization, web analytics, and more.
6. SearchFest is Portland, Oregon’s premier search engine marketing conference, focusing on marketing education and networking. Topics covered include social media marketing, advanced search engine optimization, local search, analytics, and paid search marketing. This conference offers several learning tracks and features speakers, workshops, and panels.
7. Search Inside Summit, a three-day conference located in Florida, presents speakers from the search industry who offer their insight on search marketing and new technology. Most of the speakers are executives who have experience developing search strategies and search budgets for their companies. This conference boasts a limited number of attendees so as to foster a more intimate, discussion-filled atmosphere.
8. Search Marketing Expo West: This conference is ideal for individuals in areas of corporate or marketing management, or members of a marketing or IT/Web staff. Topics raised at this conference center around current trends in search engines, including issues surrounding Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
9. SunCity SEOcon, a conference for online marketers located in Phoenix, Arizona, offers two days of training and networking events. Attendees will hear tips and secrets from experienced online marketers. This conference boasts a laid-back atmosphere in a very sunny setting.
10. Web Usability Week, located in San Francisco, offers six days of speakers, panels, and discussions on topics ranging from writing for the web to navigation design to web usability to social features on mainstream websites to brands and customers. Speakers are executives and other individuals from the web industry.
Amelia Von Wolffersdorff is a guest blogger for My Dog Ate My Blog and a writer on online degrees from accredited colleges for Guide to Online Schools.
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