Maximize Website Visibility and Performance through Advanced Technical SEO
December 4th - 5th, 2019
TechSEO Boost 2019 has now concluded
The Industry’s First Technical SEO Conference
With events dedicated to nearly every vertical, interest, and trend, the list of marketing conferences is endless.What type of conference won’t you find? A technical SEO conference that challenges even developers and code jockeys.
With TechSEO Boost, Catalyst has changed that!
TechSEO Boost 2019 is the first industry event 100% dedicated to technical SEO. Featuring world-class speakers and loads of networking time, this is the conference for you if you’re looking to up your technical SEO game.
Attendance Lottery
TechSEO Boost is 100% FREE. Yes, you read that right. Free.We believe in making it easy and affordable to access advanced technical SEO content. There are no hefty ticket fees or registration costs, but there is limited space for in-person attendance.
This year we’ll be using a lottery system to determine in-person attendance for both days. You only need to enter once and you’ll be included in every round of the lottery. Below is the notification timeline to learn if you’ve won a pass:
- ROUND 1: Enter before August 1st, notified on August 2nd
- ROUND 2: Enter lottery by August 2nd, notified on September 30th
- ROUND 3: Enter lottery by October 1st, notified on October 31st
In the first two rounds, you will only receive a notification if you have won. If you have not won in the 1st or 2nd round, you will be automatically entered into the next round. If you have not won by the 3rd round, you will be notified that you have not won and will receive a link to the free livestream.
***The In-person lottery is now closed, however you can still register for the livestream!
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Meet Botify
TechSEO Boost Headline SponsorBotify is a global leader in Search Marketing Analytics, catering to 500+ leading global companies across industries including e-travel, e-commerce, media, online marketplaces, and digital agencies. They are a unified, data-driven, and user-friendly platform that provides the insights needed to impact every stage of the search process from the underlying technical requirements to content optimization, ranking, and real keywords.
Speakers
- Martin Splitt Developer Advocate, Webmaster Trends Analyst Team, Google
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates CTO, NTENT
- Jori Ford Sr. Director SEO & Content, G2
- Paul Shapiro Senior Partner, Head of SEO, Catalyst
- Michael King - Research Competition MC Managing Director, iPullRank
- Frank Vitovitch VP Professional Services, Botify
- Dawn Anderson Managing Director, Bertey
- Vincent Terrasi Product Director, OnCrawl
- David Sottimano Independent Consultant & Vice President, Keyphraseology
- Claudia Higgins Natural Search Insight & Technology Manager, Argos
- JR Oakes Senior Director, Technical SEO Research, Locomotive
- Tobias Schwarz CTO & Founder, Audisto
- Micah Fisher-Kirshner Director of SEO & Content, Turn/River Capital
- Dan Shure Owner, Evolving SEO
- Aja Frost Senior SEO Strategist, HubSpot
- Colleen Harris Product Manager – Business Intelligence, CDK Global, LLC
- Derek Perkins CEO & Co-Founder, Nozzle
- Jordan Silton Senior Director, SEO & Analytics, Apartments.com (CoStar Group)
- Jim Gianoglio Lead Quantitative Analyst, Bounteous
- Gareth Simpson Director & Founder, Seeker Digital
- Alexis Sanders SEO Senior Manager, Merkle
- Nick Vining Director, Strategy & Insights, Catalyst
- Meghan Lavin - Event MC Partner, Director of Marketing, Catalyst
Call for Research - Sponsored by iPullRank
The judges have spoken! We’ve selected our winner for the 2019 TechSEO Boost research competition, sponsored by iPullRank. Congratulations to Onely’s Tomek Rudzki who took home first place!
Check out the session recording showcasing the research from our 2019 finalists and winner.
Agenda Day 1 - December 4th
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TimeSession TitleSpeakers
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1:00 PMDoors Open: Check-in & Light Snacks
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2:00 PMEvent Welcome MessageCatalyst
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2:05 PMNLP for SEOPaul Shapiro, Catalyst
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2:35 PMAutomate, Create Tools, & Test Ideas Quickly with Google Apps ScriptDavid Sottimano, Keyphraseology
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3:05 PMWhen You Need Custom SEO ToolsNick Vining, Catalyst; Claudia Higgins, Argos; Derek Perkins, Nozzle; Jordan Silton, Apartments.com; JR Oakes, Locomotive
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3:50 PMKeynote: Bias in Search and Recommender SystemsRicardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT
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4:40 PMWelcome Reception: Beer/Wine Open Bar & Hors d'oeuvresSponsored by OnCrawl
Agenda Day 2 - December 5th
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TimeSession TitleSpeakers
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8:00 AMDoors Open & Breakfast
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8:45 AMKeynote: Googlebot & JavaScript: A Closer Look at the WRSMartin Splitt, Google
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9:25 AMWhat I Learned Building a Toy Example to Crawl & Render like GoogleJR Oakes, Locomotive
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9:55 AMFaceted Nav: (Almost) Everyone Is Doing it WrongFrank Vitovitch, Botify
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10:25 AMCoffee BreakSponsored by Audisto
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10:50 AMGenerating Qualitative Content with GPT-2 in All LanguagesVincent Terrasi, OnCrawl
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11:20 AMThe Ultimate Pagination for SEOTobias Schwarz, Audisto
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11:50 AMThe User is The Query: The Rise of Predictive Proactive SearchDawn Anderson, Bertey
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12:25 PMLunchSponsored by Nozzle
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1:40 PMResearch Competition - MC’d by Mike King, iPullRankSponsored by iPullRank
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2:20 PMRanking Factors Going Causal: Regressions, Machine Learning, and Neural NetworksMicah Fisher-Kirshner, Turn/River Capital
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2:50 PMAdvanced Analytics for SEODan Shure, Evolving SEO; Aja Frost, HubSpot; Colleen Harris, CDK Global; Jim Gianoglio, Bounteous; Alexis Sanders, Merkle
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3:35 PMAfternoon SnackSponsored by Launch That
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4:05 PMCrawl Budget Conqueror - Take Control of Your Crawl BudgetJori Ford, G2
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4:35 PMTechnical Link BuildingGareth Simpson, Seeker Digital
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5:05 PMClosing RemarksCatalyst
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5:10 PMHappy Hour: Beer/Wine Open Bar & Hors d'oeuvresSponsored by Botify
View Session Recordings Videos
TechSEO Boost 2019 may have concluded, but you can still access all the amazing content including all the session recordings and presentations on Slideshare.
A special thanks to our Livestream sponsor:
Sponsors
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Headline Sponsor Botify Botify is a global leader in Search Marketing Analytics, catering to 500+ leading global companies across industries including e-travel, e-commerce, media, online marketplaces, and digital agencies. They are a unified, data-driven, and user-friendly platform that provides the insights needed to impact every stage of the search process from the underlying technical requirements to content optimization, ranking, and real keywords. -
Lunch Sponsor Nozzle Nozzle provides experts access to unparalleled SERP data. Understand what is happening across the SERP by monitoring all your brand's digital properties, not just the top result. Unlimited competitors, locations, and API access will help you gain new insights into the competitive landscape while flexible scheduling & pricing means you can adjust your keyword tracking to maximize your budget. -
Welcome Reception Sponsor OnCrawl OnCrawl is a technical SEO platform that helps you make smarter SEO decisions. Awarded as Best SEO Tool in 2017, 2018 and 2019 at the European Search Awards, OnCrawl combines your content, log files and search data at scale so that you can open Google’s blackbox and build an SEO strategy with confidence. Backed by a SEO crawler, a log analyzer and third-party integrations, OnCrawl currently works with over 1000 clients in 66 countries including e-commerce websites, online publishers and classifieds. OnCrawl produces actionable dashboards and reports to support your entire search engine optimization process and helps you improve your rankings, traffic and revenues. -
Coffee/Lanyard Sponsor Audisto For enterprise customers, Audisto offers SaaS solutions to continuously perform advanced technical audits of complex websites. The crawler technology enables extensive analysis of page structure (PageRank Flow, accessibility, hubs), content quality and important onpage criteria. In addition customers conduct scalable technical health checks to prevent erroneous modifications and associated economic damage through automated testing & monitoring. -
Snack Sponsor Launch That Launch That creates valuable digital brands, bringing them to life through SEO and paid marketing, elite content, and web design and development. A privately held, non-traditional marketing firm based in Orlando, Launch That generates customers for its core businesses and for those of its partners. Our mission is to connect people to extraordinary resources, and we do so by hiring talented marketers who share our core values of passion, agility, excellence and community. We pride ourselves on building online businesses that win in organic search -- and are built to last. -
Livestream Sponsor RankScience RankScience is a continuous-optimization platform that improves your website SEO through automatic A/B testing and data science. -
Research Competition Sponsor iPullRank iPullRank is a digital marketing agency focused on Content Strategy, Solutions Architecture, Marketing Automation, SEO, Social Media, Measurement and Optimization. We are based in New York City and we are PROUD of what we do. -
Swag Sponsor Advanced Web Ranking With over 15 years experience, Advanced Web Ranking is the world's longest-standing rank tracking solution preferred by over 24,000 leading brands (such as Siemens, Hilton, Amazon, Microsoft, Sony) and digital agencies worldwide (such as GroupM, Digitas, iProspect, Ogilvy & Mather, Publicis Groupe).
Focused on helping SEOs save considerable amounts of time and money, AWR delivers search engine rankings with pinpoint accuracy to colleagues and clients as nicely packed whitelabel reports. Powerful APIs are available for big agencies and large customers.
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H2O Sponsor MarketMuse MarketMuse accelerates content creation, reinventing how marketers improve organic search rankings, drive expertise in their industry and impact business strategy. MarketMuse Suite, an AI-powered Content Intelligence and Strategy Platform, analyzes millions of articles on demand, uncovering gaps and opportunities to empower marketers to craft high-quality content their audience loves and search engines reward. -
Branding Sponsor Growth Gauge Growth Gauge is a boutique consultancy specializing in technical SEO for massively scaled sites and multi-channel growth marketing for seed stage startups. -
Branding Sponsor Red Ventures Founded in 2000, Red Ventures is a portfolio of growing digital businesses. We bring consumers and brands together - directly and through online marketplaces - in the Financial Services, Home Services, Health Services and Education industries. We meet consumers where they are in the buying cycle with powerful online experiences tailored to their preferences and seamlessly connect them with the brands or services they need. We are capable of performance-based digital marketing and integrated e-commerce, strategic partnerships, datascience, bespoke technology, proprietary brands, and a culture of adaptability and nimble teams focused on raising the bar, giving back, and challenging what’s possible.
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