With the help of a "large shoe horn" we were able to squeeze in a few more exhibitors and have but one exhibition booth remaining for the SES New York show starting on February 28. We are now well over 100 exhibitors for the show which is significantly larger than the 2004 New York edition.

Paid registrations for the seminar program are running wild right now. Based on the increase for three weeks out, we should see record numbers of people at SES New York.

I have been fortunate in the previous few years to be associated with two terrific trade show brands: Internet World (1993-1998) and now Search Engine Stratgies. While SES will never be as large as Internet World, I feel that SES has better longevity genes. This is due to the fact that SES is vertically focused whereas Internet World was extremely horizontal. Also SES is covering an arena that appears to be only at the beginning of changing advertising models for years to come not to mention its possible affect on the Yellow Page industry and many others forms of media. Search is changing dynamically all the time and as long as that is the case, then we are looking at many years of growth for Search Engine Strategies events around the world (we are now in 7 countries with SES, with more country announcements to come).