Lee Odden at Online Marketing Blog describes the new search engine marketing certification program at the DMA06 conference. There were more than 100 attendees, probably the largest group to get any sem seo certification at one time.  There was a pretty impressive lineup of instructors and courses for the first day including;
 Jeannette Kocsis, VP of [...]

Jjones over at SEO Fox recently wrote a very positive piece about the announcement of the DMA sem seo certification program. In fact he titled the piece A Positive Spin Off of the DMA SEM Certification, and it was indeed. But his answer to a comment summed it up best when he said,
I imagine that many companies will still desire a [...]

According to Joe Preston nobody reads his blog, My Head is a Rocket, yet he managed to get the attention of not a few SEMPO members, including Paul Bruemmer, who were none too pleased with his “review” of their soon to be released SEM SEO certification.  You really should read the whole post and the rest [...]

The value of  SEO SEM certification has been debated for years with most landing on the side of useless. Lack of industry practices and standards, as well as the rapidly changing search engine landscape has slowed sem/seo certification growth.  Neverthleless certification for search engine marketers has been around for years and thousands have been certified.  
So what [...]

Ya and if you think so then you’re the one that’s getting robbed.  Here’s  their pitch to seperate you from your hard earned money and I quote directly from the website. ( emphasis added)
“The ExpertRating online Search Engine Optimization Course is a well researched 250 page online course that has been developed for people who would [...]

Not much of a title but I think you get the drift. These are some seo sem certification conversations I ran across while searching for the latest news.  I’m sure there are others but here are some of the comments on forums and blogs left in the seo sem certification world.
Abakus SEM Forum 
V7 Network Forum - John Scott, points out an excellent [...]

SEO SEM Certifications
*note prices may have changed - working on an updated list
International Webmasters Association
http://www.iwanet.org/
Member Price: $170.00 US
Non-Member Price: $270.00 US
Course Duration: 6 weeks
CEUs: 3.0
Web Course No: B320
Course Instructor: Cindy McMahen
Co-Instructor/TA: Karyn Zoldan
(Part of a Web Business Certificaton Program)
Search Engine College
http://www.searchenginecollege.com/
Course Duration:
10 weeks (tutor-supervised)
No time limit (self-study)
Course Fees:
Tutor-supervised course = USD 395
Self-Study course = [...]

William Rock is one of  only eleven other SEO professionals to successfully complete the highest level of certified SEO training from Bruce Clay. Mr. Rock is in charge of the online marketing division for merchant services innovator, BankCard Central, and its new subsidiary, OptimizeUs.net (http://www.optimizeus.net).
Bruce Clay’s SEO certification course was established in January of 2005. The [...]

According to my friend Ward Tongen who is attending the SEMPO meeting in NY at the SES Conference 2005, SEMPO has no plans for certification. Where does that leave us when the largest (currently) industry association has no plans to either offer or even promote some sort of certification? Am I wasting my time looking [...]

Why am I blogging about SEO SEM Certification and Training?? I’m bloggin about this because I’ve been trying to get additional certifications since 2000. Actually I’m not big on certifications alone. Combined with experience however, certifications can be very valuable. I think clients would like to know that the people working on their website have experience and maybe [...]