Talk:Search Engine Strategies/Archive 1

Incisive Changes To SES History
I noticed a series of edits today made by Incisive Media's VP of marketing Matt McGowan Lafmm, where information I think was useful to this page has been removed. I contacted Jehochman and Cumbrowski via email about them, as both have had active work within the page and are more impartial that either I or Matt. I cc'd Matt on that email, so he was aware of my action. Jehochman made some initial edits but suggested that I also post to the talk page, which I am now doing.

Matt's edits initially removed me as having founded the series, then reinstated my name but made no reference to my departure, something that was previously part of the page. That's currently been fixed, but I'd suggest it be watched so that it is not further removed. SES is a major conference series that I founded, oversaw and helped grow until my final show last week. My departure from it is part of its history and seem notable. It was certainly notable previous to the edits.

Looking at the current history section, here would be my suggestions to bring it up to date. I've tried to do the right Wikipedia code to fit in, in case someone wants to use any of this (or alter as they deem fit)

The conference was created by one of the industry's leading experts, Danny Sullivan, founder and former lead editor of Search Engine Watch. The first SES conference was on November, 18 1999 in San Francisco, California and marked the first formal occasion that site owners had met with search engines. The conference expanded internationally in 2000 when the first SES UK was held in London, England on April 27, 2000, followed by Denmark in 2001, Germany in 2002, and France, Sweden, Canada, Italy and China until 2006. The growth of the industry caused the creation of special niche SES Conferences such as SES Multimedia & Mobile Edition and SES Latino.

The conference is hosted by Incisive Media since 2005 who purchased Search Engine Watch from MecklerMedia (now Jupitermedia) for $43 million that year.

Just over a year after the purchase, Sullivan announced his resignation from guiding the series on August 29, 2006 after a contract dispute but later agreed to run two further shows in the US and speak at a third during 2007. He also later announced his own conference series, Search Marketing Expo.

On June 7, 2007, Kevin Ryan was named as vice president and global content director for the series, to guide it forward in the future.

Aside from my concern on how the history was updated, the Other Conference section was removed, where PubCon was listed. That's been restored, and I'd hope Wikipedia might consider adding a page here about Search Marketing Expo, so it can be included as well.

Dannysullivan 15:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)dannysullivan

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