Here’s a little PubCon SEO card game I’m playing when I get to Vegas. I have red SEO business cards for my SEO consulting. I will be using them as my business card this trip, handing them out on request and (hopefully) trading them for your business card. The unique part is, this time each one of my red SEO cards has a unique serial number on the back.  I have already picked a certain number of cards and listed them as “winners” on a sheet of paper. I shuffled them back into the deck, and will be taking them with me to Pubcon.

During Pubcon, look for my red SEO card and be sure and ask for one. During and after Pubcon, more than 20 times I will publish a winning number on this blog at http://www.johnon.com/. If you have in your posession a card with that number on the back, you win! What do you win? Well, how about a back link? A kind mention of your pet project on this blog? Some free PR?

It’s a good will game, that’s all. So make sure you take a card and check the site if you care to win. One win per person, of course, but feel free to take an extra card to pass along to a friend ;-)

In suburban America in the 80’s, everyone had a home bar, and everyone wanted to know everyone else’s drink. You wanted to be able to take a guest aside to the bar and serve him what he liked…make him feel special. The town hall people, the lawyer down the street, the cardiologist that gave out free advice, and of course the ice cream company district manager living next door. I was just a teenager but sometimes running to the Local Liquor Store for somebody’s favorite Tanguerey, or Jim Beam, or Canadian Club was *the* critical task of the day.

Nowadays SEO people meet at bars and restaurants, but they still drink, and that aside meeting is still where the SEO action takes place at major conferences. Oh, sure the sales action and intros largely take place on the conference floor and exhibit hall, but the SEO action is at the bar.

In this case the lawyer has been swapped out for a domain guru or semantics expert, the town hall guy has been replaced by the link meisters and directory kings, and the ice cream salesman? Well, let’s just say that these days he’s selling luncheon meat.

The question remains: What do you drink?

I haven’t participated in any WebmasterWorld things for a while. I tired of it, got annoyed by the mods and community, and pretty much saw no value to it. Now I am re-considering Pubcon because it is so mixed up now. So big, with so much going on and so many people all mixed up in it… maybe it will be good to go. Big enough to get lost in, and not have to deal with some of the less-desirable parts?

Are you going? Why? Why not? I wonder if anyone who reads this blog will be there. That might be interesting.

Update 10/14: I decided to go and booked the trip. I skipped Tuesday but will stay till Saturday morning. I hope I get to meet people there.