In-house SEO Exchange @ SMX Advanced

Seattle, WA: June 13, 2013

Hosted by: Jessica Bowman In-House SEO
Advocate and Expert
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The only event designed by in-house SEOs for in-house SEOs

The In-house SEO Exchange is one full day that is 100% dedicated to in-house SEO and 100% of the speakers and attendees are in-house SEOs. This means that the types of challenges you face and the types of questions that you have can be discussed openly with people in the room. Attendees will build relationships and share solutions that you would normally only hear behind closed doors. It’s unlike any event you have ever attended!

The Only Event Addressing Enterprise-level SEO Challenges

Jessica Bowman, SEO expert and in-house advocate, presents her exclusive, closed-door workshop specifically for non-agency SEO’s. Get insider tips and tactics from some of the best in SEO within an intimate, "fire-side chat" atmosphere. Past speakers have included top SEO’s from Disney, eBay, AT&T, Match.com, and many more. Workshop curriculum and topics are attendee driven, so no subject is off limits.

Walk Away With Actionable Solutions On How To:

Address Enterprise-Level Technical Issues: Learn from a room full of others in e-commerce, publishing, lead-gen, and B2B, how they deal with unique technical issues in their applications. For example, the use of canonical tags, mitigating the negative effects of Panda updates, integrating social media and UGC, improvements in search bots’ capabilities, etc.

Deliver Powerful Reporting for Stakeholders: Find out the who, what, when, how other in-housers are reporting SEO metrics and KPIs to help demonstrate the value of SEO or build the business case for bigger SEO budgets.

Manage SEO across the Organization: Learn from top brands, the strategies they use for making SEO a bigger priority, distributing the workload to other positions, and integrating SEO into the workflow more seamlessly.

Trouble-Shoot SEO Strategies: Whether the focus for 2012 is doing a better job of local SEO on a national level, going through a major site-redesign, measuring the impact of link building campaigns, or expanding your online presence into foreign markets – someone at the In-house SEO Exchange will have been there before.

Get More from Your SEO Budget: Hear first-hand the experiences other enterprise-level SEOs have in getting the most value out of their SEO budget – discuss frankly the must-have tools (and those that can be skipped), what gets outsourced (and recommended vendors), and even personal experiences with *gasp* paid links!

Get More Mileage from your Work Week: Learn how to be a more efficient in-house SEO, leverage other roles in the organization and what other in-house SEOs are doing to shave time off their tasks.

And Much More: The In-house SEO Exchange and brainstorming is dynamic by nature. Attendees help set the agenda to ensure your most pressing SEO questions are addressed.

What Attendees are Saying:

What Makes this Event Especially Valuable?

“In-house SEOs will benefit from the safe haven of this event so that we can share openly, get input from people who have been through their challenges and get several solutions from a room full of people who understand the unique challenges of in-house SEO.”

- Duane Forrester, Senior Program Manager, SEO – Microsoft/MSN

“The small group atmosphere lets you tap into the collective intelligence of talented search marketing experts from across the internet. Moreover, by meeting and sharing with these individuals, you have the opportunity to establish friendships and grow your network of resources – a HUGE plus for future conferences.”

- Attendee from SMX Advanced Seattle 2010

Why Can’t Other Conferences Match the Value for In-house SEOs?

“The needs of search marketers doing SEO in-house are broader than the topics covered at most conferences. It’s not just about basic tactics: you also have to deal with organizational, political and process-related challenges. Insights into how to get past these hurdles often come from peers at other companies who either are or have been going through similar challenges. Having a day that is dedicated to enabling these conversations is priceless.”

- Olivier Lemaignen, Group Manager, Global Search Marketing – Intuit

“The opportunity to just sit and bounce ideas off others in a semi-guided and themed way was unique and clearly the best bit…pub meets never have that kind of focus, and those kind of conversations rarely flourish in a standard conference situation. Understanding and agreeing that what was said in the room stayed in the room allowed for a much free-er discussion and I think was really valuable for everyone.”

- Attendee from SMX Advanced, Seattle 2011

Any Final Thoughts?

“I came away with really good knowledge that will help me put together our long term plan.”

- Attendee from SMX East, New York 2011

“The course was incredible and I can’t thank you enough!! If i could dream up the perfect SEO course to attend every year this would be it!”

- Brian Ledis, Product Developer, Thompson Reuters

for for In-house SEO Exchange @ SMX Advanced.

Registration Options	Conference Rate Now – Jun 10	On Site
All Access Pass + Workshop	Sold Out	Sold Out
Workshop Only*	$1,095	$1,195
Workshop Only – 3 Pack	$2,950	N/A
Workshop Only – 6 Pack	$5,600	N/A
Workshop Only – 12 Pack	$10,500	N/A

* Requirements to Attend:
You must be willing to share your experiences, insights, lessons learned and contribute to the Exchange. You must be an in-house SEO professional to attend (not employed by a company offering search marketing services).

If you have any questions, please contact Jessica Bowman at 415-990-3407.

About Jessica Bowman

Jessica Bowman is a leading advocate for in-house SEO and is known for getting in-house SEO programs up and running quickly, systematically and profitably. She tells it like it is, with candid, realistic advice about SEO strategy, tactics and implementation options.

Jessica comes from an IT background which gives her a different perspective than many search marketers on how to execute SEO by integrating it into existing systems and processes. Her diverse experience in project management, website usability and process analysis gives her the insight to ask the right questions in the right order to identify the best approach for implementing SEO at your company.

Now an SEO consultant, she specializes in helping companies implement SEO so that it becomes part of everyday business activities, whether you do SEO in-house or with an agency.

Jessica has a talent for figuring out what a company needs and what it doesn’t need, identifying where the focus should be, pointing out what isn’t worth the effort, and taking action to start maximizing a company’s SEO efforts. A long-time advocate of in-house SEO, Jessica leverages your existing resources and talent to produce the maximum return on SEO investment.

Identified as one of the industry’s top in-house SEOs by Natural Search Blog, Jessica has built in-house SEO programs for Yahoo! Inc., Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Business.com.

With 10 years of web experience and multi-million dollar successes in search engine marketing and website design, Jessica knows how to set the strategy, identify what needs to change on the site and within the organization, and motivate people to move forward and improve the bottom line.

Jessica graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Information Systems Management from Washington University, holds a B.A. in International Economics and Management from Hiram College, volunteers by working with refugees, has been featured in the SEO Bible and Marie Claire magazine, and plans to move to Europe… one day.