Since work ended at 5:00pm, there was a lot of time to waste and old buddies Mikhail and Ivan where there early as well to talk about stuff and catching up on various stories. We were later on joined by our new friend Robert Ma who has his own air purification business. Several friends that showed up, Clint, Aron, Jesse, Shawn and Gilda. Although Shawn had to leave earlier and missed most of the networking part, Aron left after most of the presentation was done. Who I did not see that RSVP’d were buddies: Camron, Marko and John although I already knew John could not come for something came up that he needed to be at his place.
Anita talk about several link building techniques which was a pretty good comprehensive talk on several link building techniques. One thing I did not hear from here link baiting titles/topics you can target were the top/best list. Top 10 whatever, Best 5 something, Best 8 something, The top 11 people doing whatever. These list sometimes still get some link love, but overall it was all cool. Well done, thanks Anita.
Here are some random photos taken at the San Diego SEO Meetup.
Thanks to Rob for the Chipotle Hot Sauce, De Arbol Hot Sauce and Avocado Hot Sauce. Thanks to Dr. Lawrence for assisting me in installing Opera on my Old Palm Treo 600
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Benj, Great Post! I love the pictures. I think I am going to finish my SEM work and will start modeling
I look good on these pictures. LOL. For all SEO/SEM people – make sure you visit http://www.seoreligion.com
Here is a quick story from this SEO meeting. There was some guy who wanted to promote his sauce business. So he asked us a favor. Basically if we like the sauce we should blog about it and give that business owner some link love. Everyone’s like: Sure no problem! We will do that
Then I said out loud “So, if we won’t like the sauce, then we will place “NO FOLLOW” tag on it!” It was funny to see that businessman’s face reaction LOL
By the way, about 30% of the attendances were invited by Benj. Thanks to Anita Cohen-Willia and Benj Arriola for this wonderful gathering.
Mishon is a big dork – haha
thanks benJ for gatherging us together.
I sure missed out! Maybe you can organize a meet up too, Benj! Maybe sometime during the summer: Hot SEO tips to utilize this summer (or something)
Hmmm I think I will leave that for Anita, I think she would do a a better job. Doing SEO and organizing a meet up have two different skills.
What about Summer Beach Girls Optimization?
If you came to the Meetup, please rate it on Meetup.com . Thanks to Benji for inviting so many people.
The June Meetup’s topic is yet to be determined. Any ideas? We will be meeting somewhere else due to the tourists in Old Town.
I think Mishon is onto something here and I like that idea better.
Hey Mickhail,
no worries,
Funny face businessman doesn’t mind if you don’t like the hot sauce you can put no follow tags. LOL You could even put a rel=no “hot sauce” tag!
Best,
Rob
http://www.scorpionbayhotsauce.com/
Man Dru, you missed out! It was the most smart SEO meeting EVER! There was a kegger and we played pin the tail on the donkey…it was KRAZY!!!
Guys, please do not forget to use LINK CONDOMS!
Great gathering, a lot of valuable infos. Thinking about switching careers, hehehe. Thanks Benj for the invitation and Mishon for his positive attitude. You make me laugh dude. Keep me posted about upcoming gatherings.
Nice to meet Benj and all of “his guests”.
FYI to others, the big dork Aron is referring to as Mishon is Mikhail.
Mishon = Mikhail
*LOL*
Mishon, you will have to show me if you are better at SEO or ping pong!
-jesse, i had a boost leak, lets run again and see how well i do this time… -also added a k04…
Guys, i know what we need to do next! We should all get together and play some ping pong!
Here is some cool video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dcmDscwEcI
Ivan, thanks for comments. But how funny am i?
I had a great time everybody!
My phone’s wicked old, but I got a free shirt
shawn – let’s do it, I haven’t done anything to my car since then – I’m saving for a turbo kit. I’m so excited
…. 325hp in a hatchback yeehaw! and that’s only stage1; it goes up to 6 [800-1000 depending on set up; yikes!]
See ya guys soon!
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Benj,
Great photos and thanks to you and Mikhail for passing along the invite. Always great to meet fellow seo
Gilda
Gilda,
Glad you could make it. I really enjoy talking to you that evening. Please don’t forget about us!
Lets have a race and see who can rank higher for San Diego SEO. What do you say? You currently have 4 spots on me. Im here
Let me know!
I’m tired *LOL* Just wait for the 2008 SEO World Championship and I will work on that instead.
@Marko: But just for the fun of it… watch the ranking of this page by next week and check your site too.
Starting this very minute check the rankings.
@Marko: Ok 20 minutes of SEO work done. Let’s see how it goes.
Ok so you’re number 19 and I am 23. Let the fun begin!
Made it to #5 in Yahoo..
I’m impressed! Teach me.
Haha, like I said check the rankings after 1 week. At exactly 7 days I made the jump.
But you can still catch up.
Ok, first lesson, start by figuring out what I did and you will learn.
In the Philippine SEO world, we called this SEO Shadowing originally first mentioned by Gio Castro, winner of the Isulong SEOph and Ituloy AngSulong SEO contest.
Hmmm… Lots of images with San Diego SEO Alt tags, new comments so the page is being updated often, keyword in title, H3 and content… I gotta be missing something here..
Made it to the 1st page!!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=san diego seo&btnG=Google Search
OnPage stuff, what about the other things going on?
Follow me, follow you… the shadow.
SEO Shadowing.
Are their still SEO meet ups?
You guys seem like a fun group of guys (and gal)
Lets get the party started, who can have “San Deigo SEO League” at #1 on 03.11.08
Challenge starts today and party details will be presented on winners page… House rules
Hello all,
It looks sure like fun. Is there a comparable group in Los Angeles?
Cheers
man I would love the heads up for the next get together.
Nice meeting all of you.I wish you good success!