SEOmoz recently conducted an seo industry survey of more than 3,000 respondents and learned that seo’s are in fact mostly self taught. Interestingly enough self employed consultants are the majority of self learners. I imagine a lot of them were teaching each other in forums, bars (don’t laugh I’ve learned a thing or two [...]

Search Engine Strategies is offering sem training in Denver, Colorado on May 6th. The courses and instructors are listed below. Costs are $745 for half day and $1,345 for the full day. You can register here.
Local Search Engine Marketing 101
Mary Bowling, Blizzard Internet Marketing
Search Engine Optimization Workshop
Shari Thurow, Omni Marketing Interactive
Advanced Keyword Research
Ron Jones, [...]

Here’s the first sem training consolidation I’ve seen and it looks to be awesome. Jim Boykin announced WBP has purchased SEO Class and is offerng 4 classes in New York, San Francisco, Dallas and Edinburgh, Scotland. Jim adds that as a bonus he’ll give the first 200 members of Internet Marketing Ninjas a free pass [...]

I’ve done a couple of interviews on this blog of search engine marketing training course folks including Bruce Clay of Bruce Clays’ SEOToolset and a part one and part two with Kalena Jordan from Search Engine College. (I told you a couple). OH by the way, here’s a recent interview with Kalena Jordan. I should [...]

Ron Jones provides a great list of online seo training options and descriptions at Search Engine Watch. I’ve covered most of them here but he adds a few to his list. Ron is an Internet marketing consultant, trainer and owner of Symetri Internet Marketing, which provides strategic consulting and Internet marketing solutions.
Thanks Ron, look forward [...]

Brisbane’s Search Engine Bootcamp - Feb 14, 2008
Brisbane Hilton - AU $595 + GST

Search Engine Bootcamp is divided into four sessions covering all the important SEO and PPC topics plus a few that you may not even have thought about, each session is designed to cover important search marketing techniques.
For example, session one - PPC [...]

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 [...]

SEM training moves up in the world with courses at Harvard, DePaul, James Madison, George Madison, Rutgers and others. According to a recent study by Vertical Measures, an Arizona search engine optimization company, some prestigous universities are offering sem training yet at the same time “the overall findings were a bit disappointing”. The study looked [...]

With all the sem training courses and programs as well as sem conferences you would think that the market is saturated and there’s no room for growth. But one of the reasons I blog about sem training is because of the fresh content and information that comes out about search engine marketing. The newest in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Search Marketing Now is offering a webcast entitled “Search Marketing - The Basics” to air Thursday, December 13 at 1:00 PM EST. Detlev Johnson, “a top technical search-marketing expert and industry leader” will host the program. He will discuss the basics, and how it fits into toay’s marketing efforts. The program will include a [...]

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 [...]

This blog is about sem training so I should do a better job of letting you know about sem training sessions. I’ve been off track lately but promise to do a better job of focusing this blog on all the training programs out there as the make themselves known. I don’t know how I missed [...]

Lee Odden asks a great question over at LinkedIn: Answers. “Can market demand support the growing number of SEM conferences?” Add to that the growing number of sem training programs and one really does have to wonder if the pie is big enough to support this sem training overload or will some of these conferences [...]