I was not able to attend Pubcon in Las Vegas this year, likely because I am a SEO Loser. But I found a couple of sites providing recaps on the events.

SEORoundTable is providing an excellent recap of the all of the events with a lot of detail on what they are seeing and hearing. If you have not visited SEO Round Table before, it is a site that you may want to get used to visiting.

SockMoney is an great blog that is doing a small recap of the events and their comments on them.

Update: Dan Zarrella from DanZarrella.com is also Live Blogging from Pubcon. Thanks for sharing Dan.

Update 2: Chris Winfield, President of 10e20webdesign.com, is also at Pubcon blogging about the event with pictures. You can find Chris’s blog here.

Update 3: Looking for another option for staying up on the happenings at Pubcon? Joe Duck is covering Pubcon as well and includes many great pictures in his flickr account. Enjoy.

One of the first tools that I found when I was creating a new site about 6 months back was the Keyword Suggestion Tool from DigitalPoint.com.

If you are looking for specific keywords that are in the same niche as the site you are creating, or looking for keywords to include in your site, this is the tool for you. It gives you an idea of how many searches are done per month from Overture(Yahoo) and from Wordtracker.

If you have never used this tool, it is one of the important ones too add to your SEO tool bag. Best of all, it is FREE thanks to DigitalPoint.com

One of the things that I have done that have helped me the most in my goal to increase search engine referrals to my websites is when I was told about WebmasterWorld. Soon after I started visiting there, I become a member of their supporters forum and had access to their supporters area.

The wealth of information and knowledge that are packed into those forums will amaze you. Some of the top players in the SEO / SEM field participate and at times share information that you do not see in the general public. If you have not yet joined and become a supporter at webmasterworld, now is the time to do so if you are tired of being a SEO Loser.

Another great community for Webmasters is the Digital Point Forum. Shawn Hogan, the founder of Digital Point, has a great community and has created many custom tools that should be a part of every web site publisher. If you are not a member there and have not used some of the tools that Digital Point provides, you are missing out.

Pubcon, the Webmaster World Publishers Conference, kicks off tomorrow with the Guy Kawasaki keynote. Pubcon is one of the big SEO and Webmaster conference.

Of course, being a SEO loser I have never been able to attend. I do know though that it is a very important conference for webmasters, website publishers, and SEO people and hope to attend one of the next upcoming shows.