If you haven’t read any of the articles at Marketing Pilgrim’s SEM Scholarship contest then your missing out on some great stuff. The contest teaser is:
Are you the next generation of search engine marketing experts? Are you interested in joining one of the fastest growing marketing industries ever?
There are dozens of articles from the next [...]

Okay, you’re not going to have a chance to read about the dirty little secret here.  The secret is that you have to go to Marketing Pilgim’s SEM Scholarship article page “Shhhhh!…..the dirty little secret about sem seo certification” to read it.  Thanks to Nick Urbani and Rob Stevens for their inspiration, Andy Beal for [...]

All this talk about sem seo certification and training is making my head spin. I mean really, there are plenty of companies or individuals that offer training, some good some not so good. Sure you’re gonna learn quite a bit about seo sem and my advice is to attend one of these programs, you’ll learn [...]

Marketing Sherpa recently released an interesting case study that was aptly titled   ”How Two SEO Experts Launched a Paid Sub Site With No Advertising “.  The case study featured the efforts of Brad Fallon, MyWeddingFavors.com and Andy Jenkins, A Squared Artifacts Inc., also co-creators of “Stomping the Search Engines“.
“We were fully aware that we were giving away [...]

The Search Engine Academy in Toronto, Canada is holding seo training on November 13-17. The instructors will be John Alexander, Dave Barry, Greg Mate and Barry Byers. They will be teaching a 2 day basic SEO Workshop, a 3 day advanced SEO Workshop and a combined basic and advanced 5 day SEO Workshop .
“These Workshops bring people [...]

Ryan Bell’s article -  ”Instant PPC Success for the Hometown Hero” was the winner of the 2nd round of Marketing Pilgrim’s SEM Scholarship. Andy Beal notes that the number of unique visitors is down from last week’s winner Nick Urbani and hinted that future entrants might want to “spread the word”.  Great job Ryan and best of [...]

I blogged about Fresh Egg’s SEO Intern training and scholarship a few weeks back and mentioned that it would be a great opportunity for anyone to spend time with Ammons John aka Black Knight. Well it looks like Rand Fishkin thought the same thing and is sending Rebecca across the pond. Some of the things [...]

This is the second part of a closer look at Search Engine College’s sem seo certification program with Kalena Jordan , Director of Studies at Search Engine College and owner and CEO of Web Rank.
 Q: What levels of certification do you offer?  Students who take a Certification course under tutor-supervision must receive at least a [...]

I blogged about a few search engine marketing certification programs earlier and grabbed some info from their respective web pages. I thought it would be a good idea to get a closer look at of some of those and ask a few questions that might not be answered on the website and okay, some that were answered. SEM SEO certification and training closeup [...]

Nick Urbani wins Marketing Pilgrims SEM Scholarship in the 1st week with his article “The SEO Article You Shouldn’t Read“.  Nick’s article is about applying 5 points of theory focused planning to search engine optimization.  I like his fourth point best.
4. Review Very Frequently
The winning SEO will not be the first to start or the [...]

Lee Odden at Online Marketing Blog describes the new search engine marketing certification program at the DMA06 conference. There were more than 100 attendees, probably the largest group to get any sem seo certification at one time.  There was a pretty impressive lineup of instructors and courses for the first day including;
 Jeannette Kocsis, VP of [...]

Marketing Pilgrim recently launched a contest for a search engine marketing (sem) scholarship prize that is worth more than $5,000 and I might add, some great exposure. This is a weekly competition were you are required to write and submit an article of “your top tips, your favorite tricks or a secret tactic that our readers would [...]

Honestly, why sem seo training courses give or don’t give sem seo certification is beyond me. After all there is no sem seo certification board that can approve or disapprove these courses, programs or whatever. Even if there were an approval entity, the value of that certificate is and always will be, I imagine, debated up one side [...]

Search engine,
search Engine
fell on your head.
Search engine,
search Engine
soon you’ll be dead.
All of those bad serps
from spammin’ and stuff
Search engine,
search Engine
when is enough?
Search engine,
search Engine
why all the ads?
Search engine,
search Engine
you’re time is in fads.

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 As long as we’re talking about seo sem certifications, I have to give a shout out to my friend Jill Whalen. Jill will be heading to Dallas (sorry Minneapolis fans)  on October 19th and 20th with her High Rankings® Search Engine Optimization Seminar. This band of merry makers is a virtual who’s who list from the seo [...]