Sounds like a fun lineup... would be worth checking out

i'm looking forward to welcoming all of you back to manhattan and having a great time.

where in manhattan?

Midtown Manhattan, near Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.

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I cant even dream of attending such great conferences and pubcons meetings at this moment , they are far away from what i can even think of affording . I am looking forward to read some good blogs and coverage from guys who are attending

Please listen ( :) and write ) carefully only you are source of learning for me.

Good luck to all who are attending

SEOclass also contains some PPC knowledge as well. One of the items to be covered will be creating synergies between PPC and SEO so that you can apply what's learned from one section of SEM and apply it to another.

The last class was quite enjoyable, and a great success for the attendees. I'm definitely looking forward to the encore.

Excellent! I'm sure that many will find the smaller group size of the premium program extremely rewarding.

benevolent001, I get what you are saying, I really do. It was that line of logic that unfortunately kept me away from the early PubCon's. I still wish I'd made it to those, but I'm glad I stretched into finding my way to one finally. It paid for itself within weeks, since one of the things I learned was applied to my existing Web sites and produced an almost immediate positive effect.

Plus this sort of thing offers the added advantage of the bullpen thing. IMHO, people might instead be wondering: "Can I afford NOT to go." ;-)

This comes from the heart. I have no relationship with SEOClass.

>I have no relationship with SEOClass.

Other than getting to know us from some great times at pubcon;)

Benevolent - I would definitely encourage you to hit the closest pubcon to your area to get a feel for it. Vegas is quite inexpensive if you don't gamble actually. Flights/hotels are reasonable, and can be used as a tax writeoff as well.

Looking back - I can definitely see my first pubcon as a turning point in my career, and echo caveman's sentiments that my only regret would be not going sooner.

With regards to the SEOClass - we're very excited to have such a fantastic group of folks together - and I think it will be extremely helpful to attendees.

Until we put on our first SEO Class for non-profits - I thought "this can't be too hard". Believe me, I have a whole new appreciation for just how difficult it is to plan a conference correctly. Luckily, we're now with pros, so us SEO'rs can focus on the things we do best. Helping folks to understand SEO/SEM better through teaching concepts that will help create actionable strategies for moving up the rankings.

Cheers to some great stuff to come.

Great news indeed. May have to attend a class or two myself!

First class was lots of fun and education and got me to attend SES where I met lots more great people. Too bad Brett wasn't @ the first class. What is your topic about Brett?

> my part

I will be playing the part of Jason Calacanis and denying everthing the other 5 speakers have to say. ;-)

Seriously - I am the organic on-the-page guy.

Heh heh....

I still remember that on-page-factor post of yours from lo those many years ago...

Excellent, wish I could attend :)

I am seeing the schedule of conf at here [seoclass.com] and it says something diff about dates , which is correct?

i guess its just copy paste error from last conf.

The dates are the 30th and 31st of July. That's an error which should soon be corrected.