My Thoughts On The SEOmoz Expert Training Conference

I just got home from the SEOmoz expert training series and I really enjoyed the conference! I was a tad disappointed with the content as I already knew 99.9% of what they presented but that shouldn’t scare you off as I live and breath SEO and this conference was just part of me making sure my skills were up to snuff. It is hard to know what expert/advanced means in search engine marketing and optimisation and I think this conference would be perfect for an in house SEO or someone who doesn’t have time to read and test everything. I highly recommend this above everything else out there, it was well priced, amazing speakers, and from what I hear great parties/networking!

My favourite part of the conference was the site review and discussion section. If you want to make a 100% advanced-advanced SEO conference I think just having that group of guys there for three two hour sessions on broad subjects would be amazing. Just being able to ask questions, argue, and make your case is what sparks creativity IMO. All the presenters were great and my favourites were by Nick Gerner and Danny Sullivan because they were on broad subjects about how search engineers think and where they are headed. Jane, Rand, Will, Rebecca, Sarah, and everyone were just amazing!

I can’t comment on the network part of the training apart from meeting a few great guys during the presentations. I ripped the cartilage in my chest the week before and was in a lot of pain so I just went home after the conference to sleep and recover (got to visit a local Seattle hospital to make sure I was ok). I’m sure, as with most conferences, drinking after the conference is the really valuable part and from comments from others this part was were the value was.