PubCon

WebmasterWorld's PubCon, or just "PubCon", is an educational conference and industry trade show targeted specifically for web professionals and website owners. Although the conferences center piece is search engine marketing, WebmasterWorld Conference and PubCon events are for thought leaders in search engine and Internet marketing professionals to gather to share best practices in the, design, development, promotion and marketing of their businesses and brands.Fact|date=August 2007

History

PubCon's roots run far deeper than the web. These really started back in the 1980s with BBS users. Brett Tabke, a SysOp, running a BBS system on a Commodore 64 would often have meet-n-greets at user group meetings. That was a common event and done by a lot of other sysops too. Bret Tabke continued this tradition when he founded the Internet forum for webmasters in 1996 called WebmasterWorld.

The first WebmasterWorld PubCon was held in London in the year 2000. Over 125 WebmasterWorld members showed up at the Cittie of Yorke Pub in London. This PubCon and the two that followed were user group meeting like events and not a real conference. The first conference style PubCon, PubCon IV was held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Wyndham Tremont Hotel Boston, Wyndham Tremont 821 Washington ST on Saturday April 26th, 2003 [http://www.pubcon.com/boston2003/schedule.htm PubCon IV 2003, Boston] Conference Schedule (and some date errors, showing 2004)] .

PubCon today

The PubCon 2006 was held from November 14th to 17th at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Over 2,100 attended and the keynote speaker was Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineWatch and Search Engine Strategies Conference.

Lee Odden describes Pubcon as "one of the best conferences for hands on search engine optimization and paid search marketing information".Lee Odden (April 17, 2006), [http://allbusiness.sfgate.com/blog/SearchEngineSmarts/3968/005066.html SEO Marathon] , "San Francisco Chronicle" (Search Engine Smarts Column), retrieved on August 29, 2007 ] . Search Engine Strategies on the other hand is considered to be more corporate and for larger businesses [http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum5/4951.htm Recommended SEO Conferences?] , "WebmasterWorld Forums " (thread at from 2004)] .

References

ee also

*Search Engine Strategies
*Search engine optimization
*Search engine marketing
*Internet marketing

External links

* [http://www.pubcon.com/ PubCon.com]
* [http://www.webmasterworld.com WebMasterWorld.com Forums] (Event Host)