Calling all Minnesota search marketing people! We are having the next get-together for local search marketers on July 17th at 6:30pm at  The Liffey in Saint Paul. It’s been a while since the SEO/SEM Yahoo Geek Group has hooked up and Lee Odden asked me if it was time to rally the troops for a fun night out.  So here it is, hope you can come!

• Who: Twin Cities & Minnesota people interested in Search Marketing
• What: Evening at the bar with other search marketers
• When: Tuesday, July 17th 6:30pm
• Where: The Liffey Irish Pub in St.Paul
• Why: Meet, chat, learn, and network with others in search marketing

This is not any kind of formal event, just a fun night out to connect with others playing in the search marketing field. Folks that attend the big conferences like SES, SMX or Pubcon talk about the best part of the conferences being the networking and meeting folks at the bar after the sessions. Lets try to make this the same kind of thing without the conference sessions and fees. We have a lot of great internet marketing folks in town so lets rally the troops right here in the Twin Cities and talk a little search, no matter your hat color!

Here’s a few ice breakers and topics you can bring up when you meet someone:

• Minnesota’s local search marketing & internet scene
• personalized search
• universal search
• social media, do you twitter,  are you dugg and buried?
• GetGoMN
• Is Ask ever going to get a bigger share of users?
• Link buying & selling, do you hide it?
• nofollow attribute, do you use it?
• What kind of linkbait are you using?
• have you ever wore a black hat?
• ……you get the idea..

Can you come to this SEO/SEM get-together? Do you have any ideas you would like to share? I hope you leave a comment on this post and let us know if you are coming!

Cheers!