PubCon last week was a fantastic show. It had the strongest, most useful content of any search show I’ve been to in the last few years. The attendees were numerous and enthusiastic.
One area was curiously weak, however: the exhibitor floor.
There were less than fifty exhibitors for the entire show. Most of these were search engines, [...]

The final session of PubCon last week was the Search Engine Smackdown, with representatives of each engine giving a “State of the Engine” address, and then answering questions as a group. On the panel were Matt Cutts of Google, Sean Suchter of Yahoo, and Nathan Buggia of Microsoft Live Search. It was moderated by Brett [...]

The final round of Interactive Site Reviews at PubCon included a panel from the search engines themselves. It was moderated by Greg Boser and included Matt Cutts of Google, Nathan Buggia of Microsoft Live Search, and Tony Adam of Yahoo Media.
Instead of taking notes, I decided to shoot pictures instead.

If you know of good coverage [...]

Here are a few links to coverage of my sessions at PubCon:
Universal and Personal Search – This Changes Everything

Kooshy
Search Engine War
TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog
Trinitude Network

Brand Reputation

SEO Roundtable
Bruce Clay Inc.
Online Marketing Blog
WebPro Business

From Michael Stebbins, CEO of Market Motive in the “Learning To Love Your Quality Score” session at PubCon:
For e-commerce advertisers, instead of deep linking your paid search ads, take visitors to the homepage and dynamically adjust the content of the page to match what they had searched for (within the homepage’s look and feel). You [...]

Wednesday night at PubCon, Rand Fishkin and the SEOmoz team hosted their second annual Search Spam Party at PubCon.
The theme of the party was a clever spin on the Werewolf game, with a custom deck of cards with the following substitutions.

Villagers are White Hat SEOs
Werewolves are Black Hat SEOs
The Seer is Matt Cutts
A Danny Sullivan [...]

Powerful you have become, my former padawan, in the ways of the search marketing. The dark side I do not sense in you.
Great job at Pubcon, Kate! It was nice to see you speak.

After two whole days at home, I’m on the road again today. This week it is PubCon in Las Vegas. PubCon, from Webmaster World was originally a show focused on technologies, strategies and tactics for websites, but has morphed over the years into one of the leading shows on search and internet marketing.
I am on [...]