Chiang Mai SEO Conference: 1,000 Attendees, AI Misuse Pains, and Shovel-Sellers Winning
daluoseo · x · 2026-11-14
The author recaps the five-day Chiang Mai SEO conference (including Black Hat SEO Day): roughly 800-1,000 attendees packed the Marriott ballroom, with 100 side events spanning AI to black-hat talks, and a heavy iGaming presence. Key takeaways: mainstream talks skewed beginner-level while real value happened in small face-to-face meetups; nearly everyone uses AI but in wildly different ways, with the main pain being clients misusing AI and raising repair/education costs; a session noted AI-voiceover podcasts are much faster and cheaper to produce than AI video; and the real money is with the 'shovel sellers' and gambling-adjacent players. A detailed recap video is planned.
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