First off, I hope everyone among our US (and expat) readers had a great holiday weekend, filled with tryptophan and football (I know mine was). Second, I'm very excited to announce that SEOmoz PRO is launching our first ever webinar on Thursday Dec. 10th at 11am Pacific (2pm Eastern, 7pm London/UK). We've heard from a number of our members that they'd like to do some live reviewing of strategies and recommendations and get questions tackled in this format. I'll be running the webinar personally, but I haven't quite decided on a topic, and that's one thing I need your help with.
Below is an embedded Google form (they're pretty spiffy) with three short questions. We'll use your feedback to help determine the content and format for the webinar, as well as gauge interest level.
We'll have another blog post in the next few days announcing details (based on your requests + votes), as well as an email to all PRO members with a registration link.
Of course, if you have anything to add in the comments or any recommendations, we'd love to hear from you there, too. If this webinar goes well, we're certainly planning to make it a monthly event for PRO members, and possibly offer some free webinars to the entire community. A future subject that folks have been asking about is training on the SEOmoz toolset - that's something we want to do, but we have some changes + additions coming in January, so we'll get those released first, then follow up.
Thanks for your feedback and happy holiday season!
Link building all the way for me. It sucks so much time so any input is great
b
Curious about it. Hope it will add some value to the membership fee.
I'm sure most people voted for link building. That seems to be a topic you can never get to much information about ;)
I tried to register this number of times and the system would not work for some reasons, now I am too late and I won’t be able to join the seminar.
I really do want to see this information, is there any chance you will record this information and enable pro members to see it? I am really rather disappointed I won’t be able to see it....
I never realised you would only accept so many people?
Cool! I voted for link building. This comment is meant to infuence others to do the same :)
Link Building and more specifically, linkbait... We have made a number of runs at this but never really got great results, so my thoughts are that we never really got it right.
David
I think it would be really good to cover all of the options but have two webinars, one for beginners and one for advanced - but either way, this sounds really good to me and I've cast my vote :-)
and what about 45 min presentation with 30 min Q+A?
I figured we couldn't do every variation - and 75 minutes is an odd time block for many people to schedule, so I tried to do the best I could with options.
Thanks for voting :-)
i guess ill chime in whith my favs too...
i wanted metrics / linkbuilding
im gonna have to buy my pro account again so i can go...
Will your poor non-member readers be invited?
We're likely to do some non-PRO webinars in the future, but this first one is for PRO members.
Very much looking forward to a SEOMOZ Pro webinar. Frankly, I would be appreciative of whatever time limit/variation the folks around here prefer. My vote is for the longest time possible. :)
Rand - I have a conflict and won't be able to make it.... We are actually putting on a webinar about link building and SEO at 11:30am EST that very same day :-) Oh well, that's the way it goes some times.
See you in January at AZIMA!
Do you have the dial-in numbers / webex details for this webinar? I am excited!!!
That information will be posted soon!
Is it possible to watch a copy of the webinar somewhere?
Yes, it's available for pro members here https://www.seomoz.org/dp/pro-webinars
Unfortunately I am busy that day, but I really want to see this - I am hoping PRO Members will be able to access the webinar later on?
We're going to try to record it and would love for PRO members to be able to acces it later. Since it's the first, we may need to work out all the kinks first though.
Is that form above for signing up or will all PRO members get an e-mail with a link in it?
The form above is just to vote on which topic you're interested in. A formal sign-up form will go out soon to PRO members.
This is a great move. Definitely look forward to the webinar.
I voted Link Building. I agree with PageOneWD - How about a 'I think I've create link bait, now what?' theme. Marketing for the sake of link building etc.
Ed
One thing that would be awesome are downloadable notes for review, and man oh man it would be sweet to have this on my ipod so I can learn on the fly
Ive flirted with going pro for so long and this is another nudge. I dont have much time to look at my own stuff at the moment with work so I would need to get more hours into the day somehow...... either that or come up with something I could apply in work using up next to no time which would make it worth me paying out the $ on a personal level to make the guys at work think my insight was scary good
When it comes to one's profession, I usually ask myself when the expense will pay for itself and more. Starting off, my pro subscription was out of pocket. It was an investment. And now it has definitely paid for itself, help me get a good SEO job, and the company is now paying for it for me. I once saw this bumpersticker that said: You think education is expensive. Try ignorance. It stuck with me ever since.
Well another nudge is that if you sign up now for a 1 year PRO membership you also get a free pass to SES Chicago (which you can transfer to any SES in 2010). :)
Voted for linkbuilding & content creation. Considering that it's during work hours, I think I can only do an hour for a webinar. Looking forward to it! :)