Conferences and Events

I attend many WordPress and SEO Conferences and Events. Here are my notes and insights from the various sessions I’ve attended.

5 Killer Web Strategies for Chiropractors – Free Webinar

November 1, 2011

Click Here to Register I’m teaming up with Demandforce for a great webinar this Thursday November 3 at 9am Pacific Time. In the webinar I’ll show you: How to optimize your website for better search rankings Key tips for ranking in the local search results How to build and manage your online reviews What makes [...]

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What’s Next for WordPress?

September 1, 2011
WordCamp SF 2011

WordPress is on fire. Latest stats show that almost 15% of the sites on the Internet are powered by WordPress. And out of every 100 new domains registered, 22 of them are for WordPress websites, which indicates continued growth. After attending WordCamp in San Francisco a week and a half ago, I was planning to [...]

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Revealed: Why You Should Attend Industry Conferences

August 23, 2011

Do you find yourself wondering if you should attend an industry related event? Do you find yourself wondering if it’s worth the expense? I found myself thinking exactly that in the Summer of 2001. I had learned about a conference that was being held in the Fall of that year in Santa Barbara, California. It [...]

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What is WordPress Jetpack? A Deep Dive at WordCamp SF

August 17, 2011
WordPress Jetpack Plugin

WordPress Jetpack is showing up on many WordPress installs now. In fact, if you use BlueHost for your hosting and install WordPress with SimpleScripts, Jetpack is installed automatically for you. At first glance, it looks like a bundle of plugins. But it’s really much more than that. So what is Jetpack? I get a lot [...]

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Scrubly Launch Event!

March 16, 2011
Scrubly Mascot Thumbnail

A good friend of mine, Bob Thordarson, is launching his new service called Scrubly tonight at my favorite Jazz Club – Boxley’s Place. I really wanted to be there but couldn’t make it up to North Bend, so I’m missing the party and blogging about it instead Scrubly is a super cool tool that backs [...]

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Quotes and Sound Bites from Local University in Portland, OR

February 22, 2011

I‘m heading to Searchfest in Portland (sitting in the airport right now) but I screwed up my ticket and didn’t make it in time to attend Local University on Tuesday. Local University is a great event where many of the Local SEO Experts help small businesses learn how to build an effective web presence and [...]

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Ten Things I Learned at PubCon Last Year

November 4, 2010
PubCon Las Vegas

Pubcon 2010 in Las Vegas is fast approaching. Starting November 8, thousands of Internet geeks will be converging on the Las Vegas Convention Center to talk about websites, SEO, Social Media and affiliate marketing for PubCon. I went to PubCon for the first time last year, and it was an outstanding conference. I learned a [...]

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Blogging Brainstorm Session at ShareASale Think Tank 2010

October 19, 2010
ShareASale

I‘m at the beautiful Ritz Carlton at Half Moon Bay for the ShareASale Think Tank affiliate conference. I’ll try to capture the highlights of the sessions I’m going to and share them here. Panelists Shawn Collins, Chris Pearson, (I will add the rest of the panelists soon!) Which blogging platform do you use? Mostly WordPress. [...]

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See You at WordCamp San Francisco

April 30, 2010
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Expand2Web is going to be at WordCamp SF (#wcsf) this weekend en-force. (Yeah, that’s right, all THREE of us ) We’d love to meet up with you, so if you’re going to be there ping me on Twitter at @doncampbell and we’ll grab a coffee and geek out over WP themes and plugins. Thomas, Randy [...]

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SmallBiz WordPress Website Theme Featured at SES Chicago!

December 9, 2009

Fellow Local Search Expert Dev Basu presented at Search Engine Strategies Chicago yesterday. Dev is a local search expert based in Toronto Canada, and a contributor to the Local Search Ranking Factors report. His presentation, entitled “Local Search On a Dime” provided a nice step-by-step guide for small business owners showing them how to build [...]

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