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I’m back to San Jose, CA for the SES 2008.

The SES in 2005 was the first US search engine conference I’ve been to and now four years later I’m back, still knowing that I will learn and profit from sessions which cover 80% of the stuff I already know.

Main reason for that is because of the people I meet here and will meet again, not solely the sessions.

Just yesterday I met Brent Csutoras when shopping for some food and Monte Baumgartner of Promopeddler past midnight to recap our business strategies and exchange ideas til 3.30

I showed off our cool link building backend and some sample links to Monte and I think he was pretty impressed with what we do and how we do it. We really do have a pretty cool toolset that we built, that does automate so much manual admin work around researching and building/hunting links or even developing Personas for SEO on the web. And research for common backlinks or forward links is only a smart part of that. The interesting part is how I queue those link targets for lnk builders, keep track of their reseach and the actually built links – and their stats. And report those to the client – up to date to the minute.

Today I’ll meet SEO stars like Jim Boykin Eky and Danny Adam Sussman and Brian of BOTW Greg Boser or Pascal Fantou and Marcus Tandler and many others like Lauren Vacarello, Frank Watson, Todd Malicoat (who I didn’t happen to find pictures of now) at the

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I know for sure on this years Google Dance I will get some more great insights and clues from Google people “not” answering very specific questions and a lot of personal chats

See you at the SES

Altough Danny Sullyivan started his own thing with SMX after departing from SES, he’ll give a keynote at the SES here this year! That’s cool!

I bet when coming home I’ll have the next information overload … and I won’t have much time to diget that, as I’ll just be in the office for over a week before we drive for a leisure trip to Crotia for a Regatta training…

Some nice posts I want to point you to

• a classic post by Roger/Martinibuster about the sex of linkbuilders... "seems like getting a request from Georgina, Bunny, or Debbie has a better chance than one from Hank, Frank, or Bruce." old but very funny
• new Wordpress plugin by Gab for automatic internal link building great stuff and was just recently updated
• Patricks Quantum physics and Pagerank... sorry, this is over my head... but interesting to see what some people spend time with
• Monte still uses indians for linkbuilding (to some extend) ... well, some clients were burnt in India, we were burnt in India.. not something I'd vote for, but still nice post
• bit older, but nice analysis on how mainstream media link out ... I'll put all those sites into our common forward links tool now to see which link targets to approach first :-)
• using url search top get thousands of visitors... nice idea

Also, we just recently posted german translations of some classic authority posts from top bloggers like StuntDubl, Jim Boykin and Aaron Wall on the german spin off MarketingFan.at that you might want to check out

101 Link Building Tipps by Aaron & Andy

Backlink Quality by Jim

Link Types by Todd

and then there' comment and trackback spam again...

• It's been almost FIVE years now, that some guys called me a trackback spammer for pinging them without linking to them ... oh well, we all started somewhere :)
  

• Blue Hat SEO just released a plugin to do that automatically on a large scale
  

• Just in Time ShoeMoney starts to blog about how to improve his comment and trackback spam fight on his blog
  

• It appears that now in mid 2008 not much has changed in the spamming world since 2003, expect that _some_ bloggers use NOFOLLOW and _more_ of the links get caught in filters and algos... but it appears by just scaling up their bots, some people are still successfull to boost their spammy sites... ATTENTION: Not something I would recommend of course!

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This year we’ll see the first SEOktoberfest. This is going to be a SEO VIP gathering at the time of the real Oktoberfest in München and is being run by Marcus Tandler and Quadszilla …

The price point is only at EUR 5000 (about USD 8000 ) to get one of the 10 elite SEO seats to drink, dance and have fun with fellow blackhaters as well as six playboy bunnies in Munich’s most classy clubs and after hour clubs. But you get two days of party for that :-)

Folks like Rsnake of ha.ckers.org have already joined the guest list. So Hurry Up – try to get one of the seats – TODAY.

Cheers