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Link Ninjas is going to end after our January training dates.

Link Ninjas didn’t stick with us, but keep reading to find out about the first annual SEO mini PowWow.

For those 10 people who were chosen for our free class on Jan 18th, I still guarantee that they will think this is 5 times better than any SEO conference they’ve attended to date. (or your money back…hehe).

Why do I think this? 
At a conference you get to listen to lots of people speak on lots of topics for ~15 minutes each.  I know what most of you are thinking when you attend those conferences, because I’ve been there myself, your attitude at these conferences tend to at some point turn to:

"Give me the dirt! Tell me something I didn’t know that will directly help my business because I paid thousands of dollars and want to take home some knowledge that will justify my cost of attending this conference." 

So for those lucky people who get our one day of classroom training from 4 bright people at We Build Pages, with special guest Aaron Wall – (all for free for 10 people (class limited to 10 companies), we’re still going to give those people the SEO show of their life. We’re going give these lucky 10 people a free pass to go deep into "What we think you should do to achieve high rankings on any site with a focus on "How to Get Links (and be under the radar)" They will get 1 or 2 hours of classroom training with each special guest Aaron (1 hour) as well as Justilien, Sean, Todd, and Me. We’re going right for the dirt information, no fluf, no sales…just great info for free so they can do the work themselves.

Then the doors are shuting down on the Link Ninjas training.

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What’s next you ask? Well why not have a small SEO gathering?
The first annual SEO PowWow at night on Jan 18th or 19th (not sure which day yet). I’d love to chat and share a beer with you.

If you’re an SEO and want to come, let me know. Let’s see if an annual really small SEO gathering in upstate new york sticks.

Details on the First Annual SEO PowWow

Cost – Free – You pay for getting here, your own meals, the hotel, whatever, and there is no charge for this and we’re not going to plan much – we’re winging it. I don’t expect this to cost us anything except our own beers.
When – Night of Jan 17th or Night of Jan 18th….unless you really want a 2 nighter. (we work during the days).
Where, Troy NY – just north of Albany – 20 minutes from airport, hotel next door, bars within 3 minute walk.
Why? Drink at a bar and chat SEO might even make a few good connections. 
How many will be there? I don’t know. I’ll be there, I’ll be pushing the rest of my team to come. I’ll be bending Aarons arm to have a drink as well, since he’s in town as our special guest for our first and last link ninja training class.. I think I’d be lucky to get a few other SEO’s to come too, who knows.

Goal is to be small and free and fun. Come over for a beer. Can you make it?

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Computers stolen from office in the middle of the day!

I just got an email from Bill Hartzer stating:

As you might already know, we had several laptops stolen from our offices on Wednesday. The guy walked right into our offices during lunch time and walked out with laptops, a cell phone, and a purse.

Please–please make sure you secure everything in your office as people are getting bolder and bolder now. I honestly didn’t think someone would walk right in while we are all in the office. Due to the fact that the police wouldn’t show up and take a report even though we have surveillance video, I was able to get MarketNet featured on CBS last night. Here’s a link to the report

Crazy eh? This could happen just as well to my business….could it happen to yours too? It really is something to think about.

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Search Engine Strategies is right around the corner!

So on the heals of Vegas, we’ve got Search Engine Strategies in Chicago coming on December 5th – 8th in Sunny warm Chicago…haha, yea more like cold and windy Chicago!

Danny’s been asked a lot why they do chicago in december, and once he replied:

Yes, I’ve suggested trying to rework the US shows at least to put events in more season-friendly order. However, Jupiter’s wanted to stick with what’s been done because it has worked and because it feels people have gotten use to certain events being in certain places at certain times.

I’ve heard him joke about having it in Death Valley, but he might not know that Death Valley in December is really Awesome

Maybe now that Jupiter no longer owns SES, maybe we’ll change that, eh Danny?

I’ll be speaking 3 on 3 panels: "SEM Via Communities, Wikipedia & Tagging", "My SEM Toolbox", and "Buying and Selling Links".

SEM Via Communities, Wikipedia & Tagging will be a bit challenging, but I should have some good info to present about these new and exciting marketing techinques that are hot today, and only getting hotter. It’ll just be Jeff Watts from National Instruments and I presenting, with Gary Price (the Search Engine Watch News Editor) moderating (whom I hear knows tons on Wikipedia as well).

SEM Tools,  I did at the last SES show, but my tools for this presentation have mostly changed (catch the show to see what tools I’m using – yea, I’ve got more than our own tools that I use). I’m on with Paul J. Bruemmer from Bruce Clay, Bill Hartzer of MarketNet, Ken Jurina from Epiar,and Todd Malicoat my fellow team member.

Buying and Selling Links – I’m totally honored to be on this one, and I couldn’t ask for a greater group of guys to be on a panel with. This panel includes: THE Eric Ward (whom was on the link building panel with me at WW),  Thomas Bindl of OPTOP, Greg Boser (WebGuerrilla) (A legend himself and recent blogger - a man who speaks his mind and knows his shit),  as well as MR. Text Link Ads – my ole buddy, Patrick Gavin.

I’ve been wanting to speak on "links" as SES for years and this time I snuck in since Debra Mastaler, from Alliance-Link (one of the worlds best Link Gurus) couldn’t make it and recommended that I fill in for her. (Thanks Debra! and Thank Danny!)

If you haven’t signed up to go yet, Go here to get all the info on Search Engine Strategies December 5th – 8th. If you’re coming be sure to say "Hi" to me and tell Danny you want to have the conferences in National Parks from now on.

Have you gone to SES before and are you going to this one in Chicago?

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Brett has been kind eneough to give me a free pass which I can give away for the WebmasterWorld Conference!

as Brett told me

but they can not be combined with any other offers
and no people that have already paid, or people that have been comp’d before.

So you want to go to the Webmasteworld conference in Las Vegas Nov 15th – 17th?

Tell me why you want to ge below (and please, only respond if you can really go (you’re responsible for all expenses, except getting into the show).

One lucky person will get my free pass.

I will choose the winner on Thursday morning.

If you’re already signed up, be sure to stop by our booth, and see me speak on "link building campaigns" and Todd speak on "Paid link advertising".

Webmasterworld conferences are one of the best places to meet other SEO’s and to share knowledge, ideas, and to network. Sometimes talking with people in person can really make all the difference with your contacts.

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