Comparing online virtual events vs Hudson Valley
I started work as an SEO strategist with the Hudson Valley Tech Festival (HVTech) in 2019, before the Pandemic. Since that time I have been waiting for the next October Hackathon. As I remember Hackathon 2019 October, we did not think about social distance yet during those days. It hits me today if I were to search for a Hackathon now, what shall I search for?
How to Find Online Hackathon Events?
Is there any difference between local hackathons vs Online hackathons; what has changed since the Pandemic?
We Live in a Virtual World:
Basically before the Pandemic most local HackFests - one of an alternative naming for a hack event - were in person, for example the one OpenHub’s founder Yulia Ovchinnikova held at Mount St. Mary's College in Newburgh, New York.
The inaugural HVTechFest Hackathon 2019 was the last in-person event. The official HVTechFest website had a content structure assuming the Festival would run annually.
There was a dedicated folder for each year, like https://hvtechfest.com /2019/speakers. I still remember many TechFest talks for example Ari Weinstein, James Hendler I tried to find speakers on the HV Tech Festival website, and it was easy. The pandemic messed up everybody's plans. I was searching for local Hackathons and DevFest, tried to find my beloved one, and was lost. All events like DevFests, TechFests and hackathons were rescheduled to be fully remote, and it hits me - how can I still distinguish which one is local? This question caused longer research. During the same year in 2019 as well the same event was found at: AT t&t 5g hackathon as well as in October we found an event in India.
Geo-Targeting & Local SEO After the 2020s:
Especially now when India is one of those countries (geographical locations) that struggle from pandemics after the 2020s started.
“If we research for Geo targeting SEO traffic by search keywords as NASA hackathon 2019 we’ll you can find NASA space apps challenge 2019 India ”
I was using different word combinations to see how local event organizers handle the challenge. I used the following keywords to compare tech events and farmer markets: host a virtual conference, hackathon, farmers market, hackathons around me, york state, hackfest 2019 etc.
“And think why according to the .quora tech festival meaning quora named as: “404 Not Found” what you made by changing the pattern of the pages /2019/, what next, /2020/, and why does not exist on your site?”
