Wouldn’t it be great to have private in-depth Q&A sessions with some of the world-leading experts on social media optimization, link building, and Google SEO? That’s exactly what I was treated to recently — with social media marketing guru Neil Patel, link builder extraordinaire Eric Ward, and Google Webmaster Central product manager Vanessa Fox. All three happen to be speakers at the American Marketing Association Hot Topic: Search Engine Marketing events taking place next Friday April 20th in San Francisco, May 25th in NYC, and June 22 in Chicago. (And I happen to be the conference chair for the three events. )

I turned these conversations into podcasts, which I think you’ll find beneficial in your SEO and SMM (social media marketing) efforts. There’s some real gold in those interviews.

Download/Listen:

• Vanessa Fox interview (40 minute MP3, 9 megs) - Google’s webmaster tools, SEO impacts of AJAX, Flash, duplicate content, redirects, etc.
• Neil Patel interview (15 minute MP3, 3 megs) - getting to the front page of Digg and other social media sites
• Eric Ward interview (36 minute MP3, 8 megs) - tips and secrets on how to garner links

More podcasts to come from other speakers, including Shop.org blog contributors and members, in the coming weeks. So be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed so you don’t miss them.

UPDATE: I just posted the podcast interview of Google software engineer Amanda Camp (33 minute MP3, 8 megs)