I’m just sitting in the Stansted Express heading out for SES London which I really look forward attending to. Busy times ahead, since I started travelling a couple of days ago and will be on the road for the next seven days. Because directly after SES London (which I’ll be leaving Thursday evening – yeah I know, I’ll miss the LondonSEO party, which really sucks…) I do a quick stop-over in Berlin for a meeting and continue travelling on Friday to head out to beautiful Barcelona, Spain for The Barcelona Summit 2010 which is going to be held in the amazing ME Barcelona hotel.
London is always a great place to travel, I like the city but even more I do look forward to the event and especially meeting some friends and colleagues from the industry. Most times you just meet at these conferences or the events around it which often sucks because it’s not much time to talk. Luckily my SES schedule this year looks quite relaxed so there is going to be a lot of time for this. I think there are still a lot of people in online marketing who don’t understand about the value of these events – because it’s so unbelievably important to network and just get connected to others doing what you do. Sometime you’ll need something and this is going to be so much easier with a big network!
Barcelona is – I guess – going to be quite the opposite. Last year’s event was really one of my conference highlights in 2009 (I spoke twice that time) and this year I even do have three panels / workshops to be on (event schedule).
Starting out on Saturday morning with a SEO Site-Clinique style workshop which I’ll be doing together with Christoph Cemper and continuing on Sunday with a session dedicated to link building strategies and another one called the SEO Expert Q&A – on both I’ll be moderating. I guess this is really going to be fun.
And if you’re attending to one or the other event please come by and say hi! Looking forward to it!
EDIT: In case you’re wondering why this comes a little late – because of the amazing wifi at SES (which doesn’t work 99% of the time) I couldn’t put this post online yesterday. First day of SES was pretty good, especially one session with Rob Kerry, Dave Naylor and Richard Baxter was interesting – they were discussing various industry specific optimization tactics and at some point got to geo targeting domain paths (on gTLDs) vs. sub domains vs. ccTLDs – very interesting stuff 
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gTLDs? Don’t you mean ccTLDs? I would always prefer ccTLDs rather than gTLDs when targeting multiple countries with separate domains.
hey malte, thanks for the hint – of course because the path targeting would be on a gTLD like a .com and the other version would be having sth. like a .de (which of course is a ccTLD) – i corrected that one
however it was a very interesting discussion – Kerry showed a deck from an poker analysis and in that case the gTLD / path thing was always ranking best even with having way fewer links. quite interesting