There are several venues for meeting fellow search engine enthusiasts and marketers: Danny Sullivan’s SMX, Search Engine Strategies, the Webmaster World conference and the PPC Summit. Here are the upcoming events.

Webmaster World PubCon

The Webmaster World “pub conference” stated out as a simplistic meeting of people over some beers in a pub in London in 2001.

Since then the show has turned into something much bigger, with a huge annual search engine marketing conference and expo in Las Vegas.

This July 24, however, PubCon is back at the Cittie of York pub in London for an informal afternoon.

The next big event is in Las Vegas November 10 to 13.

Search Engine Strategies
on August 10 to 14.

The next Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo is in San Jose in California

Europeans may want to take part in the Berlin conference on November 24 to 25.

SMX Search Marketing Expo

SMX is all over the world this year. Just look at this itinerary:

• Singapore July 2 to 3
• SMX São Paulo 2009, Brasil, August 4
• New York City - October 5-7
• Stockholm, Sweden, 12 & 13 October, 2009
• México November 11

SMX is, like PubCon and SES, a great place for networking and keeping up to date on the latest in search engine and social media marketing.

PPC Summit

The PPC Summit focuses on pay-per-click text ads and search engine advertising.

The next two venues are in Los Angeles September 23 - 24 and Chicago November 4 - 5.

photo credit SMX: Scott Clark

photo credit SES: CircumerroStock