Marketing Pilgrim has announced the finalists in their second search engine marketing scholarship contest. Now the five finalists will go before the judges who will determine who is the most deserving of the $10,000 prize package. There were a total of 20 articles submitted for the contest. Good luck to the finalists and congrats to [...]

My last post on memes “Another day, another meme” indicated I was not really excited about answering questions on why I blog or anything else for that matter. In fact I talked myself out of blogging for awhile and concentrated on other things right at a time when I was making wholeseale changes to this [...]

Okay I’ve been tagged in another blog meme. If you want to follow this meme the good folks at SoloSEO have created a blog meme tracker much like the “5 things you didn’t know about me” meme but this time you can edit it. I’m flattered that the Pope of local search, Paul Jahn, and [...]

Andy Beal’s SEM Scholarship contest is well underway and there are some great articles out there. I wanted to give a shout out to my friend and fellow China traveler Nicole St. Martin aka SEMgirl. Nicole has written an article for the contest entitled “So You Wanna Be A Search Marketer” where she talks about [...]

SEM training courses will be offered by Search Engine Strategies in New York prior to the SES conference. The courses will be held on Monday April 9th and the SES conference will start on Tuesday. The sem training will be led by Shari Thurow, Matt Bailey, Jennifer Laycock, Debra Mastaler, Amanda Watlington, Greg Jarboe, Nan [...]

If you didn’t get a chance to follow last year’s SEM Scholarship contest, then you don’t want to miss this. Andy Beal’s pulling out all the stops and offering a scholarship worth more than $10,000. That includes a full conference pass to Search Engine Strategies in San Jose, and the winner will have their article [...]

Dave thought he was dreaming. Sitting across the kitchen table from him was an alien. An honest to goodness alien, just like everyone describes. A short grey skinned humanoid with large dark bug like eyes and small mouth. “I really must be dreaming”, he said to himself. “This can’t be real”. Dave was held in [...]