I (along with fellow SEO´s John Andrews, Dustin Woodard, Aaron Wall, Chuck Price & Dave Bascom) attended the 2007 Domain Roundtable in Seattle . There has been a lot written about domaining recently by SEO´s…some of it complimentary, and some of it misinformed. I find domaining to be fascinating because I view it as an online extension of old-school business that just so also happens to reasonably immune from the shifting search engine algorithms. Even more compelling, the amount of money that successful domainers earn from their investments is downright scary.

Read Ben’s SES San Jose 2007 coverage over @ the Amplify-Interactive Blog. It’s not as comprehensive as Scott’s “nuggets of knowledge” post, but Ben talks about the sessions attended, and what he did after hours…

• Mid-Week Update post covers Monday (8/20) & Tuesday (8/21) including pictures from Google Dance
• SES Wrap-Up Covers Wednesday (8/22) & Thursday (8/23)

When I attend conferences, I always try to pick out the most important takeaways of information at each session, and then apply these nuggets to client sites or to my own. This year’s San Jose SES 2007 did not disappoint, and if anything, I learned more than I even expected to.

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I wrote up a quick recap of last night’s SEMpdx Hot Seat event over at the Amplify Interactive blog.

The event was held at Hotel DeLuxe, and the panel reviewed 5 sites:

• www.livepdx.com
• www.sportsmanagementworldwide.com
• www.albina.com
• www.mtgxps.com
• www.gerberstore.com

Participants included:

SPECIAL GUEST MODERATOR - Anne Kennedy - BeyondInk

• Ben Lloyd - Amplify-Interactive
• Leo Chung - Overland Agency
• Gary Pool - White Rose Productions

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I will be attending the Domain Roundtable in Seattle between August 12th and August 15th.

Thinking about how I could have fun at this event, I realize I can accomplish the following three goals with one action:

1) Generate quality content for the SEMpdx blog.
2) Draw publicity to myself and my organization.
3) Have other people pay for my drinks.

The number of places where I can promote our SEMpdx events has exploded recently. For those of you who need to promote your own events online, perhaps my list would be of value to you:

Facebook: I promote each event to the members of our SEMpdx Facebook group as well as to the Portland network as a whole. If you haven’t joined our Facebook, I strongly recommend it.

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This post was written by Everett Sizemore, a Guest Blogger from the First Page Fitness Marketing Group.

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