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Here I am writing about the Search Engine Strategies conference in NYC and I’m in an airport in Minneapolis - go figure. Even though I’m not at the event physically, I’m certainly there in spirit. Here are the sessions during day one that I would be attending:

The 9-10:30am session is a tough one for me between Video Search Optimization and In House: Big SEO. Both are hot for our SEO firm right now as our PR agency expands its multi media and social media offerings with video and as TopRank continues to add very large companies as SEO clients. Bill Hunt and Marshall Simmonds always put out some great information and I would love to ask National Geographic as well as HP a few questions about their programs.

A glitch, 7 hours on standby and I end up flying from Mpls to NYC a day late. Oh well, better late than never. I will miss some premium sessions and several meetings and interviews I’ve been very much looking forward to, but Wed-Fri I’ll be doing my thing in full force.

For fuller than full conference coverage, be sure to watch Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Land.

Joe Morin tells us the official 2007 SES NYC Party & Events Schedule is up over at the Search Engine Watch forums.  After conference events are a great place to network with other like minded search marketers as well as potential clients if you’re on the agency side of things. Some of the best tactics info is traded at these events since SEO and libations mix together so well.

Since we have an obligation to cover the conference including after-conference events, Online Marketing Blog will do it’s part and humbly suffer for the greater good of the search marketing community and attend at least 1 event Monday, Tues and Wed of the conference.  Photos and video are to be counted on. 

The eighth SES New York conference is coming up pretty quickly and as one of the last “Danny” programmed events, it should be a great one. I’ve been blogging SES shows for several years now and have advanced both knowledge and industry contacts tremendously by doing so. Barry, Chris and Ben have also done a bang up job in the past with triple and sometimes quadruple coverage of the event.

Whether you are an old hand SEO and online marketer or a noob, large conferences like Search Engine Strategies offer a number of excellent benefits. Here are my top five: