When it comes to sem training there’s an abudance of seminars and conferences available today. Elite Retreat however sets itself apart by the number of instructors (or “leaders” as they are called) to student ratio. They also “screen” the applicants to make sure they are a good fit for the program. I have an idea [...]

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 [...]

Search Engine College, has launched a neat little wiki chock full of info about search engines and search engine marketing. It looks like a lot of work went into compiling this incredible resource. The developers, Kalena and Jerry Jordan are asking users to suggest resources and definitions to be added. The Search Engine Wiki [...]

The Search Expo (Search Engine Marketing Conference & Expo) will be held in Beijing on September 5th and 6th. Search Expo is the China based conference put on by Timev Media. Timev held the first two Search Engine Strategies conferences in China and also hold their own conferences. Inway Ni is the conference chair and [...]

Just got an email from Katie Donovan, Business Development Manager at SEMPO Institute, announcing the open enrollment for the Advanced Search Advertising program. This advanced program is the most recent search engine marketing training program released this year by SEMPO. The first two were Fundamentals of Search Marketing and Advanced Search Engine Marketing. Fundamentals of [...]

Here are some photos of the China Search Marketing Tour taken by Rand Fishkin, Ian McAnerin, Nicole St. Martin, the tour organizer for next year and myself.

Chris Dohman who runs the MIMA Search Marketing blog, “Search Marketing thoughts, news and review by members of the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association” asked me a few questions about this blog. I had participated in his weekly game, “Guess the Internet Marketing Site“, where he slowly reveals a site and people take guesses as to [...]

As you probably noticed I haven’t been blogging regularly, a must for any blog to succeed. The China Search Marketing Tour took a lot of my time prior to leaving for China and the 10 days traveling in China took me away from any blogging. Not that I couldn’t blog from China as they have [...]

Another search engine marketing training course, SEO Class, announced they are launching with an inaugrual one day event in New York. This one day event is open only to non profit organizations. The first commercial class will be a two day session and will also be held in New York on May 17 - 18. Cost for [...]

The friendly folks at Search Engine Journal recently announced their SEO Clinic. If you’ve ever seen Pimp My Site at Search Engine Strategies or followed Neil Patel and Cameron Olthuis at Pronet Advertising’s Pimp My Links then you have a good idea what the SEO Clinic is all about.
If not, then you’re in for a real treat. [...]

If you haven’t heard about the Elite Retreat then you’ve most certainly have heard about the people involved. And the Elite Retreat may be playing in your town. The original Elite Retreat was held in San Antonio,Texas and included Aaron Wall, Lee Dodd, Jeremy Schoemaker and Dave Taylor. Jeremy Schoemaker, Cofounder says in [...]

A list’s are a hot topic these days so I decided to ante up with my sem seo A list. I’m only a D lister,  make that D- lister!   This A list is of the people I look up to. Let’s call them my sem seo look up to’s but please don’t call them my heroes.   Sorry if you didn’t [...]

This is a repost from earlier and no, I don’t think search engines are going the way of the dinosaur. This is more of a rant in the form of an anti ode and a way to call out search engines.  Change is in the air and search engines have to change.  Is Wikiseek the answer? I [...]

Put everything down and get out your number 2 pencils and a clean sheet of paper. It’s your first pop quiz of the year. Memes come and memes go but before we meme ourselves into submission let’s see if anyone was paying attention to any of the previous ones. 
Update: The person with the most [...]

SEMPO,  a non-profit professional association working to increase awareness and promote the value of search engine marketing worldwide, will kick off their new sem seo training on January 15, 2007. The online SEM Fundamentals program will be offered through the SEMPO Institute. SEMPO will also offer two additional certificate courses sometime during the first quarter, Advanced SEO and Advanced Search Advertising. [...]