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 everyone who submitted an article and participated in the contest.

AIDS Clickathon – A Viral Marketing Strategy to Fight the HIV/AIDS Virus in Africa
Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You
The 7 Deadly Sins that Hurt You as an SEO or SEM
Big SEO Projects – A Strategy To Get Them
Increase Conversion Rates with the Google Website Optimizer?

Judges:
Kim Krause Berg – UsabilityEffect.com
Jim Boykin – WebBuildPages.com
Rand Fishkin – SEOMoz.org
Andrew Goodman – Page-Zero.com
Michael Jensen – SoloSEO.com
Kalena Jordan – SearchEngineCollege.com
Jennifer Laycock – SearchEngineGuide.com
Todd Malicoat – Stuntdubl.com
Boris Mordkovich – SearchMarketingStandard.com
Lee Odden – TopRankBlog.com
Elisabeth Osmeloski – SearchEngineWatch.com
Neil Patel – PronetAdvertising.com
Barry Schwartz – RustyBrick.com
Brett Tabke – WebmasterWorld.com
Laura Thieme – BizResearch.com
Aaron Wall – SEOBook.com