Marketing Pilgrim announced the winner of the 3rd SEM Scholarship contest and the winner is Linda Bustos from Get Elastic - The Ecommerce Blog, with her incredibly informative and well written article “8 Stupid Things Webmasters Do To Mess Up Their Analytics” . By the way she received 11 out of 17 votes from the [...]

I hate SEO contests. Maybe it’s because I’ve been to busy working on my clients sites to have time to participate or maybe I know I couldn’t win one, although I did enter Marketing Pilgrims’ Search Engine Marketing Scholarship Contest a few years back with my article Shhhh!…..the dirty little secret about seo certfication. I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Kim Krause Berg of Cre8pc recently announced that the very popular Cr8asiteforums is offering sponsorships for students of search engine marketing, user centered design and web design industries. The sponsorship funds ($1,600) will be offered to four training programs who will then apply the funds to a “student in need or financial aid or create a [...]

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 [...]

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 the [...]

Despite the title Rebecca didn’t determine what type of wood the desk was made of or if it was ergonomically correct. What she was doing in her Fresh Egg SEO Intern Training was working with Lee Colbran to measure any changes to conversion rates from a new development they put into an existing website weeks [...]

Andy Beal refers to his SEM Scholarship contest as “SEM Idol” and I think that’s a good way to look at it. He does a great job breaking down the contest and reports visitors (unique views), page views and the top 3 referrers for each article.
Another overview of this scholarship contest is covered in my week by [...]

On Andy Beal’s blog it says he is a  “blogging and search engine marketing consultant” but I disagree. I mean come on! That’s like calling Michael Jordan an athlete. If you read Andy’s profile you’ll know what I mean. Anyway, Andy put his thinking cap on and probably said, “I can do it bigger and better”! That’s [...]

Marketing Pilgrim’s SEM Scholarship contest is in the final stage with the announcement of the final week’s winner.  You really should read their articles if you haven’t already and if you get a chance read them all. The finalist’s articles will be viewed by a distingushed panel of judges  and the overall winner will be announced [...]

In my original post about associations offering certification or training, I noted that SEMPO had no position on certification and the only assocation to address the issue was SEOPros. They were endorsing Search Engine College and SEO Research Labs. SEOPros now has their own certification program.
Not until the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) launched their sem [...]

If you haven’t read any of the articles at Marketing Pilgrim’s SEM Scholarship contest then your missing out on some great stuff. The contest teaser is:
Are you the next generation of search engine marketing experts? Are you interested in joining one of the fastest growing marketing industries ever?
There are dozens of articles from the next [...]

Okay, you’re not going to have a chance to read about the dirty little secret here.  The secret is that you have to go to Marketing Pilgim’s SEM Scholarship article page “Shhhhh!…..the dirty little secret about sem seo certification” to read it.  Thanks to Nick Urbani and Rob Stevens for their inspiration, Andy Beal for [...]

Ryan Bell’s article -  ”Instant PPC Success for the Hometown Hero” was the winner of the 2nd round of Marketing Pilgrim’s SEM Scholarship. Andy Beal notes that the number of unique visitors is down from last week’s winner Nick Urbani and hinted that future entrants might want to “spread the word”.  Great job Ryan and best of [...]