Jill Whalen and her posse will be heading to the Twin Cities (Minneapolis & St. Paul) March 15 – 16 with her High Rankings® Search Engine Optimization Seminar. The seminar will take place at the Crowne Plaza Northstar in the heart of downtown Minneapolis, MN.  This band of merry makers is a virtual who’s who list [...]

In Danny’s recent blog post SEM Certification & Training Courses at the Search Engine Watch Blog he states “The move toward offering certification and training in search marketing is accelerating”.  Now I doubt Danny’s been reading my blog but even if he has, he certainly realized the importance of training long ago. In fact he is [...]

SEC Certification Pathways is a series of bundled courses that prepare persons who want to jump-start their career path in the fast-paced search engine industry. They are designed to ensure students are immediately employable upon completion. I’ve blogged several times about Search Engine College and interviewed Kalena Jordan in order to take a closer look [...]

Matt Bailey of Site Logic’s recent post at Marketing Logic examines the shortcomings of the US educational system as posted on the Church of the Customer Blog.  Matt went beyond those shortcomings and discussed issues within the search engine marketing community explaining the magical formulas for success that many seem to  seek. There are no magic formulas that will equate to long term [...]

When I first blogged about Fresh Egg’s SEO Intern Training Programme I commented “this internship is a great shot for someone”.  Little did I realize that I would find blog fodder to continue this story. Of course when I heard that Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz had sent Rebecca to this training I had to follow the [...]

There are plenty of sem seo training programs available these days and deciding which one to blog about is no easy task. One thing I look for when determining which program to blog about is who the instructors are and who’s behind the program. That’s why I couldn’t pass up letting everyone know about Global Strategies International’s training [...]

I’ve stated several times on this blog that I do not endorse one sem seo training program over another.  That being said one thing that I think everyone should look at when determining which sem seo training program to take is to look at the instructors.  Are they recognized in the industry? Have they presented [...]

When it comes to sem seo certification and training you have admire the longevity of Search Engine Workshops. They’ve been around for 5 years this January and that says a lot. I don’t endorse any sem seo training programs on this blog because I’ve only completed one program back in 2000 and I want to [...]

Despite the title Rebecca didn’t determine what type of wood the desk was made of or if it was ergonomically correct. What she was doing in her Fresh Egg SEO Intern Training was working with Lee Colbran to measure any changes to conversion rates from a new development they put into an existing website weeks [...]

Congratulations to Ben Wills,  winner of Marketing Pilgrim’s SEM Scholarship contest. After 4 weeks and 48 entries Ben was declared the winner of the $6,000 in prizes.  The final four contestants’ articles were reviewed by a panel of 9 judges who chose Ben Wills’ article “The Five Pillars of Social Media Marketing” from among the [...]

SEO-PR along with Incisive Interactive Marketing announced they will offer a press release seo training class for public relations and search engine optimization professionals. The training class will be held on December 8, the day after Search Engine Strategies Conference winds up in Chicago. Greg Jarboe, SEO-PR president, will teach the class, which lasts for [...]

Shoemoney, Jeremy Schoemaker along with Lee Dodd, David Taylor and Aaron Wall will be hosting this exclusive sem seo training retreat in San Antonio, Texas December 18 and 19th. This retreat, perhaps in an effort to emphasize the elite in elite retreat,  promises to keep the group a small and exclusive one of 35.  This elite retreat [...]

Andy Beal refers to his SEM Scholarship contest as “SEM Idol” and I think that’s a good way to look at it. He does a great job breaking down the contest and reports visitors (unique views), page views and the top 3 referrers for each article. Another overview of this scholarship contest is covered in my week [...]

Okay, I don’t know if Rebecca Kelley really uses her nickname “Speed Demon” but it makes for a nifty blog post title.  The wax on, wax off, paint the fence came from Ammon Johns‘ description  of Fresh Egg’s training methods. After reading about her first day at Fresh Egg’s sem seo training I think she’ll definitely [...]

On Andy Beal’s blog it says he is a  “blogging and search engine marketing consultant” but I disagree. I mean come on! That’s like calling Michael Jordan an athlete. If you read Andy’s profile you’ll know what I mean. Anyway, Andy put his thinking cap on and probably said, “I can do it bigger and better”! That’s [...]