A minute ago I took a look at the SEO-dates for the upcoming year. It all starts on the 7th and 8th of March with the “SEO Campixx” in Berlin. The Seonaut has created this as a two day SEO-Barcamp and I am curious of how much of the Barcamp-concept will be realized in the end – as far as I can tell, the program already looks quite planned. The “must go” event per se, the SEMSEO and the Abakus Pubconference 2009 are on May 15th of next year. They are, as always, in the quaint Hanover and I am sure that Alan will manage to make this year great again. I am not quite sure if I will attend the two “default-conferences” (the SMX in Munich and the SES in Hamburg). Content wise, both are not that interesting to me seeing that they are more about networking and in such cases I will decide on short notice, depending on the participants. The September will prove to be exciting with the new dmex in Cologne going up against the OMD in Düsseldorf. Both of them are within taxi distance, so lets see which one hosts the better party.

Randolf has found an interesting download at Alexa (yes, those with the ineffable toolbar): the Top-million-domains by Alexa-rank as CSV-file. Up until now, Alexa has been selling these files for a tidy bit of money, but it seems they are starting to be more generous with the competitor to Google (Trends). As far as this is concerned, it is interesting to not that Alexa is not just counting Domains anymore, but is trying to track sensible smaller units. While this still makes sense for the subdomains of Webbloghosters like Wordpress, they they are overshooting their mark with individual capture of Feedburner-feeds (feeds.example.org/~r/) – in this case Alexa seems to divide along the tilde as the “classic” signal for the home-directory of Unix-systems.

Today, Seomaxx published the results of a survey that the visitors of their booth at this year's OMD filled out. 279 visitors filled out the survey after all, here briefly the most important numbers: 69% are not yet practicing SEO, 31 % already are. They are spending an average of 8147 Euro a month for SEO, which is a reputable amount if you ask me. If we take this and put it in relations to many SEM-budgets, then I think that there is still some room for improvement. Those of you who want to get their hands on the complete survey can write Michael an e-mail.