In the next three years, half a billion Indian language users will be on the web. This unprecedented growth presents a huge opportunity for local language content creators to expand their reach and to improve the local language web ecosystem.
Last year, we went to 11 cities with our Google Search Conference and engaged with over 700 content creators who joined us from across the length and breadth of the country. Looking at the overwhelmingly positive response from the publishers, we are now excited to bring back this conference, fresh and rebranded to Webmaster Conference.
This year, Webmaster Conference will be held in 15 cities and in five Indian languages -- Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, besides English.
Webmaster Conference series schedule:
City
|
Date
|
Primary Language
|
New Delhi
|
June 17
|
Hindi
|
Chandigarh
|
June 19
|
Hindi
|
Ahmedabad
|
June 21
|
Hindi
|
Patna
|
June 24
|
Hindi
|
Lucknow
|
June 26
|
Hindi
|
Indore
|
July 15
|
Hindi
|
Kolkata
|
July 17
|
Bengali
|
Mumbai
(for women only)
|
July 19
|
English
|
Pune
|
July 22
|
Marathi
|
Coimbatore
|
July 29
|
Tamil
|
Chennai
|
July 31
|
Tamil
|
Bangalore, for women only
|
August 2
|
English
|
Hyderabad
|
August 5
|
Telugu
|
Vijayawada
|
August 7
|
Telugu
|
Visakhapatnam
|
August 9
|
Telugu
|
Agenda and Topics
The conference aims to help you better understand industry best practices for building great websites, creating high-quality content that is safe for users and making content easily accessible and visible on Google Search to the growing number of local language Internet users.
It includes talks on what’s latest on Google Search, the new Google Search Console and various other tools, as well as Google’s underlying principles and policies for Search as well as AdSense. The topics will be selected based on community needs and requests.
We believe it’ll also serve as a great platform for the participants to connect with Googlers from the Search and AdSense teams as well as industry experts and influencers engaged in building the local language web ecosystem.
Who can participate
The conference is open to everyone who creates content on the web. If you create content online, run or own a website, are a publisher or a webmaster, manage SEO or are aspiring to start your online presence in one of the India local languages, then you shouldn't miss this conference!
Register your interest!
Registration for each city event closes 10 days before the respective event date.
Once you are shortlisted, you will receive an invitation email from us confirming the venue details. Please note that this is an invite-only event and filling out the form does not guarantee your spot at the conference.
We hope to see you at one of the events! If you have any questions, please go through the FAQs here.
Posted by Syed Malik Mairaj, Trust & Safety Outreach Lead South Asia
