The count­down to Brighton­SEO has begun and we’ve been eager­ly await­ing the day as we look to launch our lat­est project at the con­fer­ence, Con­sole Rock­et. This new (and 100% FREE) tool offers the abil­i­ty to enrich your Google Search Con­sole data with bet­ter visu­al­i­sa­tions and inno­v­a­tive insights turn­ing that data into rock­et fuel. Stop by the Linkdex booth, E3 in front of the main audi­to­ri­um, to take a look and sign up for your free account. Every­one who reg­is­ters their account at Brighton­SEO will be entered into our prize draw­ing to win a Google Pix­el.*

We thought this was a good cause for cel­e­bra­tion, so to help ‘Launch’ Con­sole Rock­et into the ‘Search Stratos­phere’, we’re once again host­ing the Brighton­SEO pre-par­ty at The Font. Make sure to reg­is­ter to reserve your drink tick­ets before it’s too late! We’ll have plen­ty of Linkdex­ers hang­ing around, make sure to grab one of us to walk you through either Con­sole Rock­et or the Linkdex plat­form!

We also noticed there were quite a few first-timers attend­ing this year and remem­ber­ing our first Brighton­SEO many years ago, we thought we’d put togeth­er a few top tips to help you nav­i­gate the jour­ney. Good luck and we look for­ward to see­ing you all in Brighton!

Top tips for BrightonSEO first-timers

Navigating BrightonSEO:

Top Tip — Down­load the Brighton­SEO App, it has all of the ‘Need to Know’ Info!

Thursday:

• Make the train jour­ney down from Vic­to­ria Sta­tion smooth sail­ing by pur­chas­ing your tick­ets in advance at Train­line
• Expand your knowl­edge with a Brighton­SEO Work­shop taught by some of the indus­try’s best!
• Make sure to have a sol­id din­ner to build a good base for the pre-par­ty
  • Food for Friends — Veg­e­tar­i­an
  • The Chilli Pick­le — Indi­an
  • The Black Lion — Gas­trop­ub
  • Giraffe — American/New World

• Did some­one say free drinks? — Make sure to reg­is­ter in advance for the Linkdex pre-par­ty! Get there ear­ly & bring ID (Brighton law requires it!)
• Be on the look­out for the ‘karaoke krew’ I would high­ly advise avoid­ing them at all costs! ;)

Friday:

• Bring your print­ed badge, you don’t want to get caught in this line    

• Notable ses­sions on the day:
  • Will Cecil — Devel­op­ing an enter­prise lev­el SEO data strat­e­gy
  • Neill Horie — SEO & Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence Opti­miza­tion  
  • Sam Auchter­lonie — How to hack your SERPs using a lean approach
  • Scott McBay — Why your mobile expe­ri­ence sucks(!) and what it means for your SEO
  • And of course, the keynote by Rory Suther­land, Are we cre­at­ing a cul­ture where it pays to be bor­ing?  

• Where to grab lunch? If pos­si­ble, book ahead as any place with­in a 15 min walk from the Brighton Cen­tre will be a mob scene!
• Take a quick men­tal break from all the amaz­ing knowl­edge you’ll learn with a quick stop off at one of the var­i­ous activ­i­ty sta­tions: Retro-Gam­ing, The Pri­vate Press Pop-Up Screen print­ing, Fiona’s Craft Ses­sion (Tye-Dye last year) Table Games w/ Kelvin’s Game Col­lec­tion
• The AFTER Par­ty is host­ed by the amaz­ing folks at Adapt World­wide and kicks off at 7:30pm at Hor­a­tio’s Bar out on the Brighton Pier.
• When you leave the after par­ty, I high­ly advise you stop by one of the var­i­ous 24 hour Fish & Chips shops on King’s Road to soak up some of that alco­hol. (You can thank me lat­er!)

Sightseeing and activities around Brighton:

• SEA LIFE Brighton — No trip to the sea­side is com­plete with­out see­ing a few sea crea­tures!
• Snoop­ers Attic — Pick up a fun sou­venir to take home at this vin­tage haven.
• Brighton Graf­fi­ti Street Art — Brighton is home to some of the best graf­fi­ti street art, if that’s your thing you wont want to miss it.
• Choc­cy­woc­cy­doo­dah  — Sat­is­fy your sweet tooth with a trip to the moth­er­ship of all con­fec­tioner­ies.
• Kome­dia com­e­dy club — In case you didn’t get your fill of chuck­les at BSEO, check out Kome­dia.
• The VIB (Very Inde­pen­dent Brighton) Food­ie Tour — Munch your way around Brighton’s indy food and drink scene, it’s a great way to spend a Sat­ur­day!
• Drink Brighton Tour - If your liv­er can han­dle it, stick around on Sat­ur­day for a Brighton drink­ing tour that promis­es to ‘edu­cate, scin­til­late and titi­vate your taste buds.’

For those Brighton­SEO vet­er­ans, if you’ve got any addi­tion­al tips or hacks for the new­bies, please feel free to let us know in the com­ments sec­tion below.

Safe trav­els to all head­ing down, we look for­ward to see­ing you next week in Brighton!

*The winner of the Google Pixel will be drawn and announced at the end of the day on Friday 7th of April, 2017.