Search engine industry gurus Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman of Search Engine Land are to host yet another conference in the SMX Search Engine Marketing Expo series.

SMX West takes place in Santa Clara, California, on March 2 - 4 2009.

If you sign up before the end of Friday the 11th and enter the code smx100pandia you will get the three day access pass for the special discount price of US$ 995.

Click here to sign up!

SMX West offers some 50 sessions focusing on search engine marketing, social media, pay per click advertising, local search, search engine friendly design and more.

This time Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be keynote speaker, talking about Bing, search and SEM. This is the first time he is taking part in a search engine marketing event.

Conferences like this one give you a unique opportunity to get up to date with the latest developments in the search engine industry. It also helps you build a network with search engine savvy experts and colleagues.

And who knows, maybe you can get Ballmer to spill some secrets? Buy that man a beer!

Disclosure: SMX and Pandia have a promotion collaboration agreement.