Saturday, November 21, 2020

SEO Rockstars 2020


If there is one event I do not miss each year, it is SEO Rockstars! Dori Friend, one of the original SEO's, created the event in 2012. She thought it would be a one and done, but it has become so popular that she has continued the tradition annually. Now in its 9th year, and during a pandemic, SEO Rockstars was a virtual even this year. Due to the pandemic, the event was not able to go forward live as usual. So how did that turn out?

SEO Rockstars 2020 - The Best SEO Event Ever

Wow! I would not have thought you could put on such an amazing event to rival years past, without being live. Dori and her team pulled it off and SEO Rockstars 2020 was one for the history books. With 4 action-packed days and 33 of the top SEO minds speaking, the event was epic. The event took place from November 17th through November 20th, 2020. And what an event it was!

Using GoToWebinar for the speakers to present was a great choice. However, the additional of "virtual lounge" of sorts by using Remo, made the event almost feel like you were there live. The lounge rooms could only hold six people max, but that made for some intimate, fun conversations in the rooms. I would never have thought we could have some of the same "in-person" feel, but that is exactly how it felt.

Best Speaker Line-up in History

What made the 2020 SEO Rockstars event crazy valuable this year was the sheer volume and quality of the speakers. And from the very first speaker, to the very last, the knowledge bombs were just incredible. Here was the lineup!

Day 1

  • Dixon Jones - Entity SEO: How topics and semantics trump keywords in a Bert based world
  • Ryan Stewart - Scaling your agency through "productization"
  • Lisa Parziale - How to scale your business without working crazy hours or hiring a bunch of people
  • Jerry West - PBN's and tools for link building in today's environment (i.e. GSA SER) and link building in general
  • Keith Evans - How to find and optimize powerful local links
  • Matt Versteeg - Scaling Goals and Businesses
  • Mike Long, Eric Brief & Michael Tesalona - Breakthrough Selling Tactics for SEO Agencies

Day 2

  • Robert Niechcial - How to use data science to see what most marketers miss
  • Bill Hartzer - Domains and SEO: Buying, selling, and migrating
  • Ted Kubitis - State of the Art SEO - The strange places Google and Testing have taken us in the past year
  • Carolyn Holzman - Media and SEO - "Alexa, can you hear me?"
  • Dino Gomez - Surefire Facebook ad hacks and tips
  • Elisabeth Samuels - How SEO impacts how a website should be designed
  • Marty Marion - How positioning and psychology impacts SEO
  • Robert Portillo - Get more conversions using these 7 methods + Live site reviews
Day 3

  • Michal Suski - Keyword clustering and optimization for the whole cluster instead of single keywords
  • Matt Woodward - X ways link sellers are ripping you off
  • Holly Cooper - What can 100 cell phones do for your local business?
  • Marie Yaris - 3 things to unstick a site and get it to move up in rankings
  • Perry Belcher - Copy this million dollar business success formula
  • Jeff Lenney - To people who want to start Affiliate SEO, but can’t get started
  • Clint Butler - Impact of Advance Schema for search
Day 4
  • Craig Campbell - How to flip struggling sites and get top dollar
  • Terry Samuels - Learn local SEO and silo setup with advanced schema
  • Brian Dean - The ultimate content marketing strategy you should be using
  • Moon Hussain - Top Secrets to Beating Your Top 3 Competitors Every Time: On Site SEO + Site Structure!
  • Mike Pearse & Brad Mabry - Diversify your income with an all-weather portfolio
  • Stephen Floyd - Google Maps SPAM Is Rampant-Don’t Let Them Steal YOUR Customers!
  • Roger Bryan - What separates a broke marketer from an 8-Figure Marketer? It's not what you think
  • Leon Sheed - How to consistently book 5 - 12 SEO sales calls every week & automate 85% of it
Holy SEO! That's 33 of the most brilliant minds in our industry from all over the globe. From the USA to Scotland to Australia! What an amazing 4 days. While I could not watch every single presentation, I am looking forward to watching all of the replays. Heck, some of the talks I saw I want to go back and watch the replays to get more nuggets from the gold that was dripping off the screen!

Dori Friend and her entire team should be extremely proud of this event. Even with everything going on in the world, this was one of the best events to date! Now that I think about it, they just keep getting better and better! I look forward to SEO Rockstars 2021!!

SEO Rockstars 2021 

So what will SEO Rockstars 2021 bring us? Who knows! Hopefully the pandemic will be at a place that we can all travel again and meet live. While the 2020 event was epic, I still missed the 1 to 1 chats, the group sessions in the real lounges over drinks, the breakfasts and dinners that always seem to garner the best info. There's no place like being live at an event, making new friendships and strengthening old.

I have to go implement all of the amazing things I learned from this event but before I go, I'll leave you with this thought. If you want to be a rockstar in SEO, there is no better place than at SEO Rockstars!

Want to attend this epic event? CLICK HERE