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February 27 - March 2, 2006 Hilton New York NYC
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February 26: 5pm - 8pm (CONFERENCE & BOOTH PERSONNEL BADGE PICK-UP ONLY)
Feb 27: 7:30am - 5pm (Conf. Only)
Feb 28: 8am - 6:30pm (Conf. & Expo)
March 1: 8am - 6:30pm (Conf. & Expo)
March 2: 8am - 12:30pm (Conf. Only) Conference Hours
February 27: 9am - 5:45pm
February 28: 9am - 5:30pm
March 1: 9am - 6:30pm
March 2: 9am - 1:45pm Expo Hall Hours
February 28: 10:30am - 6:30pm
March 1: 10am - 4:00pm
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Agenda* - Thursday, March 2, 2006 Day 4 - Conference
8:00am - 12:30pm
Registration
8:00am - 9:00am
Morning Coffee
9:00am - 10:15am
Attendees may choose to attend one of the five sessions offered during this time.
Local Track Local Search Marketing Tactics
This session looks at ways search marketers are tapping into an audience using local search engines, online yellow pages and other local search methods. Moderator: Greg Sterling, Senior Vice President and Program Director, Interactive Local Media, The Kelsey Group Speakers: Patricia Hursh, President, SmartSearch Marketing Justin Sanger, President, LocalLaunch! Stacy Williams, Managing Partner, Prominent Placement, Inc.
Measuring Track Measuring Success Overview
How do you know if you've been successful with search engines? You can check your "rank" at search engines for particular keywords, analyze log files to see the actual terms people used to reach your web site or make the ultimate jump and "close the loop" by measuring sales conversions and return-on-investment (ROI). This panel explores ways to measure success and what statistics you should really care about. Last part of session offers Q&A; with measuring tool vendors. Moderator: Danny Sullivan, Editor, SearchEngineWatch.com Speakers: Bryan Eisenberg, Co-Founder and CPO (Chief Persuasion Officer), Future Now, Inc. Laura Thieme, President and Founder, Bizresearch Q&A; Panelists: Brett Crosby, Product Marketing Manager, Google Analytics, Google, Inc Chris Knoch, Principal Consultant, Omniture, Inc. John Marshall, CEO, ClickTracks.com Jay McCarthy, VP of Product Management & Business Development, WebSideStory Barry Parshall, Director of Product Management, WebTrends
Organic Track Organic Listings Forum
Pose questions to our panel of experts about free "organic" listing issues, plus participate in this session that allows the audience to share tips, tools and techniques. There's no set agenda, so this is an ideal session to discuss any major recent changes with organic listings. Moderator: Detlev Johnson, VP, Director of Consulting, Position Technologies Speakers: Bruce Clay, President, Bruce Clay, Inc. Todd Friesen, Director of Search Engine Optimization, Range Online Media Mike Grehan, CEO, Smart Interactive David Naylor, SEO, Bronco
Advertising Track Getting On Top In Paid Search
Back in the "good old days," getting to the top of paid search results ultimately was a matter of spending enough money. Life is more complicated today, with quality scores, clickthroughs, mixtures of broad match and exact match and other factors all making it hard to know exactly where the black box is going to put you. This session explores the problems and tactics to help you cope. Moderator: Rebecca Lieb, Executive Editor, the ClickZ Network Speakers: Kevin Lee, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, Did-it.com Matt McMahon, Executive Vice President, Fathom Online
Clinics Track Site Clinic
This interactive session takes volunteers from the audience and examines their web sites live to provide general feedback about improving them to gain more traffic from search engines. It repeats at twice on Day 4. Attend whatever session is most convenient! Moderator: Jennifer Laycock, Editor-in-Chief, Search Engine Guide Speakers: Matthew Bailey, The Web Site Accessibility Blog Shari Thurow, Webmaster/Marketing Director, GrantasticDesigns.com
10:15am - 10:45am
Morning Coffee Break
10:45am - 12:00pm
Attendees may choose to attend one of the five sessions offered during this time.
Local Track Local Search Ads
Looking to target a local audience specifically through search ads? This session gets up close with targeting options offer by major players, offering tips, tactics and advice. Moderator: Greg Sterling, Senior Vice President and Program Director, Interactive Local Media, The Kelsey Group Speakers: Jake Baillie, President, TrueLocal Brad Geddes, Director of SEM, LocalLaunch.com Warren Kay, Director, Emerging Products, Yahoo! Search Marketing Dominic Preuss, Product Manager, Google, Inc.
Measuring Track Measuring Success Case Studies & Tactics
Come hear real life examples of how companies are measuring their success with search engine marketing, either through use of particular tools or certain types of tactics. Moderator: Michael Sack, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Inceptor Speakers: Glenn Alsup, President, Viewmark Rand Fishkin, CEO, SEOmoz.org Tony Wright, Director, Client Services, Kinetic Results
Organic Track Meet The Crawlers
Representatives from major crawler-based search engines cover how to submit and feed them content, with plenty of Q&A; time to cover issues related to ranking well and being indexed. Moderator: Danny Sullivan, Editor, SearchEngineWatch.com Speakers: Matt Cutts, Software Engineer, Google Inc. Kashual Kurapati, Senior Search Product Manager, Ask Jeeves Tim Mayer, Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Ramez Naam, Group Program Manager, MSN Search
Attendees may choose to attend one of the four sessions offered during this time.
Measuring Track Search & Phone Calls
Pay-per-call keeps getting attention, while others are becoming more savvy of linking ordinary search ads through telephone calls. This session looks at how to tie calls back to search. If you're not tracking these leads though call center queries or custom 800 numbers, you might not be measuring conversion properly! Moderator: Danny Sullivan, Editor, SearchEngineWatch.com Speakers: Christer Ljungdahl, Director, Web and Direct Marketing, National Instruments David Roth, Director of Search Marketing, Carat Fusion Brian Waldman, Vice President of Marketing & Strategy, Merchant Warehouse Q&A; speakers: Marc Barach, Chief Marketing Officer, Ingenio Ted Carpenter, VP ClickPath Division, Who's Calling
Advertising Track Ad Copy & Landing Page Clinic
This clinic will examine actual ads and landing pages offered up by volunteers from the audience, suggesting changes that may improve clickthrough and conversion. Moderator: Jessie Stricchiola, Founder, Alchemist Media Inc. Speakers: Joe Agliozzo, CEO and Co-Founder, BetterPPC Brad Geddes, Director of SEM, LocalLaunch.com
Clinics Track Site Clinic
This interactive session takes volunteers from the audience and examines their web sites live to provide general feedback about improving them to gain more traffic from search engines. It repeats at twice on Day 4. Attend whatever session is most convenient! Moderator: Elisabeth Osmeloski, SEM Consultant Speakers: Jake Baillie, President, TrueLocal Christine Churchill, President, KeyRelevance
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