I've seen many discussions and many threads, articles, etc - about different SEO conferences, webmaster conferences, etc. As a newer guy that doesn't have the funds to travel around and attend all of these events - does anyone have suggestions on which are the most important (most information, resources, value for money) to attend?
It's good to go to some if you are associated with the industry somehow and feel the need to know what is right and wrong, and for some social networking.
None are important for gathering new (or unavailable on the web) information? No insider secrets are passed around between people? What about the importance of networking and making deals with others. They cost a lot of money and it seems a lot of them sell out.. so they must be important for something?
I'm interested in finding out which conferences are the best networking events. That's all that conferences are good for in my experience.