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. [...]

Well Kevin didn’t say that everyone needs sem seo certification and training he did say, “I’ll allow that many SEM  jobs require knowledge and training” in his recent Click Z article “SEM and SEO: Rocket Science or Just Plain Science? Part 2″.  Thanks Kevin, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out.  I’ve been [...]

UPDATE: The retirement party teleconference is December 28th at 7 pm Central. Register here. According to Dan’s SEO Coach newsletter, as of January 1st Dan will no longer be providing sem seo training to new students. The newsletter also provides an invitation to his “retirement” party on January 28th along with a free teleclass. Dan explained in [...]

Chris “Drinkbait” Hooley just returned from San Antonio, Texas where he attended the Elite Retreat. Chris covers it pretty well in his blog post. Take a look to get the whole story. Here’s a bit of  what he had to say; “I know that I sometimes sound like a fan boy when I talk about some [...]

At dinner in Chicago I was fortunate to be able to visit with Andy Beal and Ben Wills, winner of Andy’s SEM Scholarship contest. I commented that I had learned a lot and shared some of my views about the contest. I also talked about how all that great content was now buried in the [...]

If you’re curious about how link baiting and viral marketing work in  social media then you have to tune into and follow Pronet advertisings Pimp My Links. Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz fame calls Neil Patel & Cameron Olthuis, “Two of the most prominent social media & viral marketing experts on the web today.” They’re asking [...]

I haven’t had this much fun since, well I don’t remember when. Sorry seoloser you just didn’t meet the right people. Guess you’re also the seo unlucky guy too. Here’s a few people I finally met in person in no particular order. Kim Krause Berg and her husband Eric. She rules! I am Kim’s biggest [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]