Comments on: SMX London 2007

By: conference

conference — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:31:21 +0000

I can understand why us older, more grizzled and gnarly toothed gits who have been in the biz before even Infoseek.com and 14k dial up, get a bit pissed off with guys who are younger and been in the biz less time

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:44:07 +0000

Glad you attended a search/social conference. It’s really amazing to get together with so many great minds in one place! SMX is definitely a great series.

By: Chris B.

Chris B. — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:56:15 +0000

Hey,

You should demand a partial refund on your room if the wireless isn’t working :-).

-CB

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:11:03 +0000

Well I certainly didn’t see you doing any Moz bashing. You were even nice to google ;)

By: g1smd

g1smd — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:16:46 +0000

I am still not quite sure how to take your initial comment to me, something like:

“”Hmm. Oh hello. I can’t remember if you’re the one who writes the stuff that I really like, or really hate. Are you one of the Moz-bashers?”"

LOL.

Did you manage to work it out in the end?

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:32:25 +0000

I would say Lisa and Kelvin should arm wrestle for it, but I know Lisa would win ;)

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:30:49 +0000

It was a good session lisa, not as good as mine though!

By: Dean Chew

Dean Chew — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:45:15 +0000

Hey Lyndon, Nice little write up. Great to speak with you in the sports bar, although mixing the grape and the grain did start to get to me :o)

Looking forward to catching up in the future, hit me up about the FB stuff.

By: Lisa Ditlefsen

Lisa Ditlefsen — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:55:02 +0000

Hey Lyndon,

Great to meet you finally =) Glad you liked my session on facebook, that’s a big compliment coming from you!!

Keep in touch =)

By: g1smd

g1smd — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:06:48 +0000

Well that was a hectic few days!

Thoroughly fuelled up on new projects, but first need to sleep off the excesses of spending the last week in London.

Yeah, it’s 4 a.m. on Tuesday – I arrived home only a couple of hours ago…

By: Dan Caplin

Dan Caplin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:14:02 +0000

Hi Lyndon, great to meet you at SMX.

Really enjoyed reading your write up and look forward to catching up with you at the next UK conference..

By: Daz

Daz — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:41:26 +0000

Heh Lyndon

Great to meet you and everyone else who attended London SEO after SMX London.

I don’t think I’ll ever forget you and I being admonished over breakfast by 2 “respectable” seniors next to us for being too loud in our conversation on linkbait and seo…. still chuckling now (but I bet the fella was writing down all your tips and tricks!) LOL

Heres to the next one! :)

Daz

By: gabs

gabs — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:23:01 +0000

Glad you made it… Time is always against you… Hope to have more time and beer @ ses… :D

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:00 +0000

I think a good time was had by all, I should have booked a hotel and stayed later… though I think my liver is glad I didn’t

By: Simon Heseltine

Simon Heseltine — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:33:47 +0000

Hey Lyndon,
It was great to meet you and the rest of the crowd over there. It was a refreshing change to get to know the UK based crowd, and to hear the presentations from a slightly different perspective.

BTW – It’s Heseltine ;)

By: Janusz

Janusz — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:04:06 +0000

Slightly offtopic- but if anyone is interested in slideshows from the conference then they will be here – http://searchmarketingexpo.com/london/smxpreso.shtml
(along with username and password you find in the leaflet you got on the conference) by this Wednesday.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:41:42 +0000

Danny that’s great to hear. My philosophy is the more you share with people, the more people share with you. And for people with the right attitude there is more than enough work to go around at the moment.

The sessions were great, but obviously it wasn’t aimed at the “advanced” crowd. I guess SMX advanced is for that, which I am definitely up for going to.

Good to meet you Danny and hope to see some interesting stuff from you in the future, stay in touch.

By: Janusz

Janusz — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:35:32 +0000

It was nice meeting you Lyndon! Good writeup as well – juicy meat for my rss feed reader.

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:24:55 +0000

Thanks Lyndon for the great advice you and Tom(distilled) gave me. I now have some great ideas in the pipeline…

Me and a lot of the other “young” SEO’s were also really impressed on how freely you gave “link bait” advice (but as you said it?s a far greater thing to actually be successful with it.)

I think I personally learned more from speaking to you than some of the sessions!

Thank you

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:07:06 +0000

Andrew, It would definitely been worthwhile having a chat with you. It seems the nature of a conference is you just cannot give everyone the time they deserve. I’m probably going to London SES, but I assume that will be even more manic.

Tom, I know you know I meant “young punk” in a positive way. I can understand why us older, more grizzled and gnarly toothed gits who have been in the biz before even Infoseek.com and 14k dial up, get a bit pissed off with guys who are younger and been in the biz less time and yet seem to know it all.

I think it comes down to the nature of the industry we are in, although life knowledge can still be very useful.

Basically, if a young guy wants to make it in this biz the only thing stopping him is himself, or herself. We really could do with more estrogen in the biz.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:51:09 +0000

Nice round up Lyndon! Was great to finally meet you in person (and a whole bunch of other seos) – even if you did refer to me as a “young punk” ;-)

By: Andrew Girdwood

Andrew Girdwood — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:43:00 +0000

Heya,

It was good to meet you. It’s a shame we didn’t have more time to chat – must make a better effort next time!

By: Michael Dorausch

Michael Dorausch — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:23:05 +0000

Excellent SEO lessons to be learned just by reading this conference recap.

While there are no old pubs in Santa Clara (SMX West) it’s sure to be a good time.

By: Mike - Twenty Steps

Mike - Twenty Steps — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:35:18 +0000

Nice write up, Lyndon. I was planning on gate crashing SMX London up until the last minute when I picked up some work which was a bummer. Would have been great to put a face to the..ermm..face.

Interesting point about the young bucks. I wonder if their enthusiasm and understanding is as a result of not being tempered with the old ways of thinking. SEO as a whole as moved on dramatically in the last few years and, as a result, become a lot more exciting than it used to be.

BTW your spam protection. Not fun trying to add up numbers after a few beers. Hic…

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:15:56 +0000

Apparently ‘muffin top’ started in Austrailia and recently spread to the UK. I’ve an Australian friend who said they use it all the time down there… anyway…