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 find useful”.  There will be four weekly finalists and the judges below will select their favorite entry for the eventual winner. Here are the October 9th entries. Some very interesting articles, I’m sure the judges will have a difficult time picking the worthy finalist. It’s not too late, get your entry in now.

Rand Fishkin - SEOMoz.org
Jennifer Grappone & Gradiva Couzin - YourSEOPlan.com
Mike Grehan - Search-Engine-Book.co.uk
Kim Krause Berg - UsabilityEffect.com
Lee Odden - TopRankBlog.com
Robin Nobles - SearchEngineWorkshops.com
Barry Schwartz - RustyBrick.com
Aaron Wall - SEOBook.com
David Warmuz - Trellian.com