Live Search is headed to New York City for SMX East 2008! SMX — Search Marketing Expo — is one of the premier “all-search” conferences. The goal is to educate and empower marketers, publishers, and advertisers alike to get the most out of search. So if you’re headed to the show, October 6-8, come find us at one of the many panels we’ll be speaking at. Or stop by booth #640, where staff from Live Search and Microsoft Advertising will be on hand to answer questions and talk about our latest offerings, like SearchPerks.  

Panel Sessions:

Nathan Buggia, Lead Program Manager for Live Search Webmaster Center will be presenting at the following sessions:

• What is Spam? 10:45am-Noon, Tuesday, October 7th
• Unraveling URLs & Demystifying Domains 1:30pm-2:45pm, Tuesday, October 7th
• CSS, AJAX, Web 2.0 & SEO 3:15pm-4:30pm, Tuesday, October 7th
• Ask the Search Engines 2:30pm-3:30pm, Wednesday, October 8th

In the Theater:

• What’s Live got to do with it? SEO and Webmaster tools Presentation Overview
  Speaker: Ani Babaian, Senior Product Manager, Webmaster Tools, Microsoft
  6:00-7:00pm, Monday, October 6th

From Microsoft Advertising:

• Search & Display Ads
  Pavan Lee, Research Manager, Microsoft, 
  1:45pm-3:15pm, Monday, October 6th 
• Ask The Paid Search Reps
  Brian Boland, Director, adCenter, Microsoft
  2:30pm-3:30pm, Wednesday, October 8th

Find out more about Microsoft's presence at SMX in the Webmaster blog and the adCenter blog.

Aya Zook, Product Manager, Live Search