Blogging is such a hard thing to do, especially if you are as busy as I have been this past year. I can come up with all kinds of excuses as to why my blog is so void of content. The minute I start pitying myself I look at the blogosphere and see so many [...]

SEMPO Institute, the online sem training program, was launched a year ago by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO). They now have had 350 enrollees of their search engine marketing training courses, Fundamentals of Search Marketing, Advanced SEO and Advanced Search Advertising. Enrollment during November reached peak levels as a broad spectrum of agency, [...]

There’s quite a few sem training courses and I try to report on those I find as I traverse the web. Certainly I can do a better job at posting but like most of us get bogged down in day to day affairs to maintain any consistency. That’s why it’s always nice when someone contacts [...]

Google has the Google Adwords Professional (GAP), Yahoo has the Yahoo! Search Marketing Ambassador Program and now Microsoft has developed their own sem training and certification with adExcellence. Microsoft adExcellence is opened to all US based adCenter users. It is the official training and accreditation program for adCenter. The Microsoft adExcellence program gives advertisers the [...]

There’s a lot of sem training going on this week at both Search Engine Strategies in Chicago and WebmasterWorld’s Pubcon in Las Vegas. Okay if I was in the States I’d probably be in Vegas since I lived in Minnesota and would want to escape the cold. SEOmoz is also putting on their Search Spam [...]