Search Engine Strategies 2008 Conference Roundup

What a week! Four days of sessions on just about every search marketing topic you can imagine from mobile marketing to black hat SEO to social media. Our Minneapolis based SEO agency sent 5 bloggers to San Jose California to attend and blog the SES conference morning, noon and night. Networking, education and more evening networking (that's what you tell the boss) was documented in text, photos and video.

Here's the roundup from TopRank's SES San Jose conference coverage:

Day 1

• SES San Jose: Search Industry Update - Jessica
• SES San Jose: Video Search Engine Optimization (VSEO) - Ashley
• SES San Jose: The Next Wave for Online Video - Ashley
• SES San Jose: Search Around the World - Part 1: Asia/Pacific & Latin America - Ashley
• SES San Jose: Keynote with Lee Siegel - Jessica
• SES San Jose: Pay Per Conversion - Jessica
• SES San Jose: Storyteller Marketing: How The Art of Storytelling Matches Up With the Business of Marketing - Thomas
• SES San Jose: Semantic Search: How will it change our lives? - Thomas
• Orion Keynote Panel: How Much Search Is Enough? - Dana
• SES San Jose: Igniting Viral Campaigns - Dana
• SES San Jose: Universal and Blended Search - Dana
• SES San Jose: More Customers, Fewer Costs: Why Marketing to the “Long Tail” Makes Sense - Thomas
• Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Rebecca Lieb ClickZ Network - Lee
• Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Kevin M. Ryan Incisive Media - Lee

Day 2

• Advanced B2B Search Marketing - Jessica
• Identify, Analyze, Act: SEM by the Numbers - Thomas
• What’s New with Google Analytics and Website Optimizer? - Ashley
• Global Search for the B2B SEM - Jessica
• 5 Things No One Will Tell You About SEM - Dana
• Search Advertising 101 - Dana
• 7 Proven Ways to Get Your Website on Page 1 Organically & Then Convert - Thomas
• Landing Page Testing & Tuning - Ashley
• Keynote with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella - Jessica
• SES San Jose Expo Hall Photos - Dana
• Measuring Success in a 2.0 World - Dana
• Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Danny Sullivan Third Door Media Lee
• Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Robert Scoble FastCompany.TV - Lee

Day 3

• Successful Tactics for Social Media Optimization - Ashley
• News Search SEO - Jessica
• SEO Rehab & Intervention - Thomas
• Social Media Marketing - Jessica
• Ads in a Quality Score World - Ashley
• Search Behavior Update - Thomas
• Internet Marketing Conference Tips: David Berkowitz Search Insider Summit - Lee
• Getting Vertical Search Right - Thomas
• Landing Page Utopia Expert Roundtable - Ashley
• Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Chris Sherman Third Door Media - Lee

Day 4

• Google Dance 2008 Photos - TopRank Team
• Blog SEO Tips from SES San Jose - Lee
• Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Michael Brito Intel - Lee
• Social Media Analysis and Tracking - Jessica
• Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Heather Lloyd-Martin DMA SEMC - Lee
• Black Hat vs White Hat Playing Dirty with SEO - Ashley

It was a pretty good event and if you attended, we'd love to read your feedback in the comments. If you didn't be sure to visit the session coverage above and the photos to get a feel for what you missed.