SMX Advanced Agenda posted

It’s only a few months away… Having just returned from what is (in my mind), the most fun and interesting search marketing convention, SES New York, my thoughts are turning to what is (in my mind) the most challenging and intellectually stimulating one, SMX Advanced.

SearchEngineLand posted the agenda and schedule for SMX Advanced yesterday afternoon. Held at the expansive Bell Center on Seattle’s waterfront on June 3rd and 4th, SMX Advanced is viewed by most long-term search marketers as the best show of the year.

Incidentally, the name of the conference suggests exactly what attendees should expect. This is by far the highest-level information sharing conference on the annual circuit. With no time or even inclination to cover the basics, attendees are taken to the cutting edge by some of the leading search and internet marketers in the business.

There is a limited number of tickets available and last year’s conference sold out very quickly. If you are interested in having your brain expanded and your high-level networks filled, register now. As I wrote, SMX Advanced is exciting, enlightening and for those of us who live and breathe search, inspiring.

Here is a short story to exemplify the tenor of SMX Advanced. Loren Baker and I were sitting together eating a catered lunch at the inaugural show last year when we saw Matt Cutts walking towards the buffet table. Matt was walking alone. The usual mob surrounding him wasn’t there. Amazing…  Neither of us had seen such a sight before. Matt Cutts walking through a room full of SEOs unimpeded. The reason? We all know each other and don’t need to seize every opportunity to button-hole luminaries like Matt. It was a nice sight to see.

Check out the SMX Advanced schedule. If you consider yourself a high-level SEO or SEM, you’ll want to be in Seattle June 3 and 4th.  Also: If you consider yourself adventurous, you might want to come back to Victoria BC with the large contingent of Vancouver Island based SEOs who will be attending.