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Website
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owners. Although the conferences center piece is search engine marketing
Search engine marketing
Search engine marketing, , is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages through the use of paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion...
, WebmasterWorld Conference and PubCon events are for search engine
Search engine
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and Internet marketing
Internet marketing
Internet marketing, also known as digital marketing, web marketing, online marketing, search marketing or e-marketing, is referred to as the marketing of products or services over the Internet...
professionals to gather and share practices in the design, development, promotion and marketing of their businesses and brands.
History
PubCon's began in the 1980s with Bulletin Board SystemBulletin board system
A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging...
users. Brett Tabke, a SysOp
SysOp
A sysop is an administrator of a multi-user computer system, such as a bulletin board system or an online service virtual community. It may also be used to refer to administrators of other Internet-based network services....
running a BBS system on a Commodore 64
Commodore 64
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, would often have meet-n-greets at user group meetings. 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
London
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in the year 2000. Over 125 WebmasterWorld members appeared at the Cittie of Yorke
Cittie of Yorke
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Pub in London. This PubCon and the two that followed were user group meeting-like events and not real conferences. The first PubCon conference, PubCon IV, was held in Boston
Boston
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, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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, on Saturday April 26, 2003.
See also
- Search Engine StrategiesSearch Engine StrategiesSearch Engine Strategies is a conference series focused on search engine marketing and search engine optimization. These events teach the ins-and-outs of search engine marketing from top experts in the field, along with information from the search engines themselves.-History:The conference was...
- Search engine optimizationSearch engine optimizationSearch engine optimization is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid search results...
- Search engine marketingSearch engine marketingSearch engine marketing, , is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages through the use of paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion...
- Internet marketingInternet marketingInternet marketing, also known as digital marketing, web marketing, online marketing, search marketing or e-marketing, is referred to as the marketing of products or services over the Internet...
External links
- PubCon Official Site
- WebMasterWorld.com Forums (Event Host)