Jim Boykin's Conference Talks and Presentations
I went to my first SEO conference in 2002 and ended up speaking at more than 100 of them in over 15 countries, mostly on link building. Here's what I could find... my own posts about each event, other people's write ups of my sessions, and the slide decks that are still online.
2002 to 2004
The attendee years... my first SES was San Jose 2002, first Pubcon was Boston 2003.
- 2002SES San Jose... my first conference. Pictures with Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Craig Silverstein, Danny Sullivan and Bruce Clay are on the SEO Conference Pictures page
- 2003Pubcon Boston (first Pubcon), SES Chicago, and a Pubcon in Scotland... all in the conference pictures
- 2004SES New York and the Google Dance party in San Jose (pictures with Jerry Yang, Barry Schwartz and Roger Montti)
2005
Started speaking at Pubcon this year.
- 2005Pubcon New Orleans and SES San Jose (Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and WebmasterRadio parties)... pictures
- Nov 2005Pubcon Vegas Nov 15-17 and my Few WebmasterWorld Pubcon Vegas Pics
- Dec 2005SES Chicago
2006
First year speaking at SES.
- Feb 2006SES NYC 2006, it is all about networking and the crazy pictures
- Apr 2006Back from Boston Pubcon
- May 2006SES London... London, Vacation Days and SEO Nights, Pictures
- Jul 2006Hostingcon Vegas 2006
- Aug 2006SES San Jose 2006... first pics, Google Dance day, Yahoo and Ask party, all my pictures
- Nov 2006Pubcon Vegas 2006
2007
- Apr 2007SES New York, Linking Strategies with Justilien Gaspard and Greg Boser... Search Engine Roundtable liveblog | Bruce Clay liveblog | my Internet Marketers of New York party post
- Jun 2007SMX Advanced Seattle... SMX 2007 Seattle Pictures + Olympic National Park
- Aug 2007Domain Roundtable Conference in Seattle
- Aug 2007SES San Jose, in the crowd for the Are Paid Links Evil session... Bruce Clay liveblog
- Oct 2007SMX East NYC and the charity party
2008
- Aug 2008SES San Jose 2008 and Ninja Jen's 10 Best Things Learned at SES San Jose
- Oct 2008SMX East charity party in NYC, raised $13,000+
- Nov 2008Getting Psyched For PubCon 2008
2009
- 2009DM Days New York... Lee Odden: DM Days Final and Dinner with Jim Boykin
- Nov 2009Pubcon Vegas 2009 link building session... SEOmoz called it one of their favorite sessions, SEO Disco called it their favorite presentation. Testimonials | Pubcon Las Vegas and Death Valley Next Week
2010
The world tour year... I set out to do one conference a month.
- Feb 2010SES London, Link Building Methods and Risks... the announcement and London SES Feedback (tweets and testimonials)
- Mar 2010SES New York, Link Building Methods and Risks... charity party post
- Aug 2010SES San Francisco, two sessions: How to Become a Link Magnet (with Rand Fishkin and Aaron Kahlow) and Link Building in August of 2010... Bruce Clay liveblog | my post
- Sep 2010SEO Oktoberfest ThinkTank, Munich... one of 16 speakers. ThinkTank 2010 post
- Sep 2010Performance Marketing Expo, Miami... Link Building Methods and Risks
- Oct 2010SEMcon, Philippines, with Aaron Wall, Todd Malicoat, Charlie Ellis, Dean Chew and Mike Borras
- Nov 2010Pubcon Vegas 2010, link building (We Build Pages was a sponsor)
- PlanThe whole year as I planned it: Jim's Beta Conference Schedule for 2010 | Where Jim is Speaking on SEO and Link Building
2011
- Oct 2011Optimization conference, Kharkov, Ukraine... video
- Nov 2011Pubcon Vegas 2011, Links With Maximum Juice and Minimum Risk... SearchRank: 27 Takeaways | the recap of recaps
2012
- Oct 2012Pubcon Vegas 2012 expert spotlight, Link Building in a Penguin Age... session preview video | Pubcon announcement | Pubcon media roundup (the week WebmasterWorld changed hands)
2013
- Jan 2013SMX, Link Building After Panda and Penguin... deck on SlideShare
- Feb 2013Pubcon Regional Austin, Link Building in a Penguin Age... lineup
- Apr 2013Pubcon New Orleans, Author Tags & Schema: Co-Citation SEO (with Marcus Tober and Rob Garner) plus a spotlight session... agenda | Authors & CoCitation deck
- Oct 2013Pubcon Vegas 2013... sessions | Aimclear: 26 Pubcon speakers | deck on SlidePlayer
2014
- Aug 2014ClickZ Live San Francisco, Digital Assets to Increase Your SEO, SMM and Branding Signals... preview video | IMN post | Digital Eye Media: Top 5 Speakers from ClickZ Live 2014
- Oct 2014Pubcon Vegas 2014, session with Christine Churchill... sessions | Bill Hartzer: 34 speakers I want to meet
- 2014Link Building, What Works... deck on SlideServe
2015 to 2019
- Mar 2015ClickZ Live New York... session preview video
- Oct 2016Pubcon Vegas 2016, Penguin Master Level Advanced Discussion... Pubcon write up | Resignal: 84 things we learned | Kangadillo deck roundup
- Feb 2017Pubcon SFIMA Summit, Fort Lauderdale... SFIMA post
- 2017UnGagged London... speaker page
- Oct 2019Pubcon Vegas 2019 main stage with Ann Smarty... announcement | main stage speakers
- UndatedDigital Summit Tampa... speaker page
2020 and after
Virtual mostly.
Slide decks still online
- Jan 2013Link Building After Panda and Penguin (SlideShare, posted by Barry Schwartz)
- Apr 2013Authors & CoCitation, Pubcon New Orleans (SlideShare)
- 2013Pubcon Vegas 2013 deck (SlidePlayer)
- 2014Link Building, What Works (SlideServe)
- AllInternet Marketing Ninjas on SlideShare
What people said
The old We Build Pages / Ninjas speaker page collected feedback from SES London 2010, Pubcon 2009 and others... Peter T. Davis, Mike Grehan, and a pile of tweets from SES London. Most of it is also on my 2010 schedule post. The Pubcon speaker bio and All American Speakers pages are still up too.
Other people's pictures from these conferences
Most of the conference pictures are on the Photos page... and the 2002 to 2005 ones are all on SEO Conference Pictures.
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