SMX West 2008 is now over and it was a great conference. The size of the conference did not take away from the intimacy people felt with the speakers. Most attendees are on their way back now, as am I. Here is a recap of all our coverage.

Before I post that, I must thank our contributors. Starting with our Tamar Weinberg of many hats including her own blog Techipedia, Debra Mastaler of Alliance Link and of Link Spiel, Chris Boggs of Brulant, David Wallace of Search Rank and a new addition Keri Morgret of Morgret Designs.

Day One: February 26, 2008

• Keynote Conversation: Search 3.0, Search 4.0 & Beyond
• The Blended Search Revolution
• Decrypting Quality Scores
• Legally Speaking: Recent Legal News about Search
• Video, Images & Blended Results
• Searchscape: Latest Stats About The Search Engines
• Search Marketing & Persona Models
• SMX Boot Camp: Copywriting for Search Success
• Local Search & Blended Results
• The Economics of Search
• Defending Your Paid Search Budget Against New Ad Fads
• Paid Search Fundamentals
• Online Retail & Blended Results
• Is It Time For Search Marketing Standards?
• Avoiding Keyword Pitfalls
• SMX Search Bowl Pictures & Videos

Day Two: February 27, 2008

• Keynote: Louis Monier - Past, Present & Future of Search
• Search Engine Friendly Web Design
• The Personalized Search Revolution
• SEO & Social Media Marketing
• Will The Social Graph Change Search?
• Reputation Monitoring and Management Through Search
• Unraveling URLs & Demystifying Domains
• Keyword Research Tools & Techniques
• SEO 2.0 For Web 2.0 Sites
• SEO and Blogging
• The Online Offline Synergy of Search
• In Depth with SEOmoz PRO
• Just Behave, A Look At Searcher Behavior
• Search Engineers Q&A
• SEO & User Generated Content

Day Three: February 28, 2008

• Keynote - Generation Next: Search In The Coming Decade
• Industrial Strength SEO
• Growing Your Small SEM Firm
• Web Analytics Roundtable
• Generation Google: A Talk With Today's Teens
• Analyzing The Competition
• SEO Q&A
• Search Marketing, B2B-Style
• Linking Q&A
• SEO Checkup

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