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 [...]

With the lastest game show centered on whether you are smarter than a fifth grader or not and the shocking revelation that seo isn’t rocket science, we wanted to meet with some elementary school children and get their take. We were curious to find out what they already know about search engine marketing and [...]

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 China Search Marketing Tour will be held May 19 - 28, 2007. Tour members from around the world will attend the China Search Engine Strategies & Conference Expo in Xiamen
New York, NY (PRWEB) February 24, 2007 — The China Search Marketing Tour has partnered with Search Engine Strategies to provide a search engine marketing [...]

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 [...]

I remember back in the day when clients used to ask me how to get their business in the top of the search engines. Now they’re all asking “how do I get in the top of Google’s local listings?” Well Matt McGee at Small Business SEM outlines what he believes are things to consider if you [...]

Matt Bailey wrote a very entertaining and educational blog post ”Analytics According to Captain Kirk“. Matt used the original Star Trek show’s crew members as his study group.  He begins the post by saying “One of my favorites is an analysis of the red-Shirt Phenomenon in Start Trek.”
You may stop wearing red shirts after you read it.  Matt compares the death rate [...]

Jill Whalen brings her fun loving crew and the High Rankings® Search Engine Marketing Seminar to Minneapolis, March 15 - 16. The two day seminar will run you $1,195 if you register by midnight (CST) on February 15, 2007. After that the cost goes up to $1,395 but if you want a discount, read on.
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Webmaster Radio has some great shows and I listen to as many as time allows. The newest program in their lineup is called “Rush Hour” with Neil Patel and Cameron Olthuis. Joining them on their maiden voyage was none other than Todd Malicoat aka Stuntdubl. And you know when these guys get together the talk is all [...]

SEO training will be provided in Toronto by the Toronto and Montreal Search Engine Academy, independently owned and operated by Barry Byers and Greg Mate.  The Search Engine Academy provides SEO training for search engine optimization certification. Search Engine Academies are in the following locations: Raleigh, North Carolina; Detroit, Michigan; Orange County, California; Toronto & Montreal [...]

Sorry, I’m busy so here’s a rerun post.
 I’ve seen the super hero test making the rounds and I just wasn’t interested. Then I was tagged by my Irish pal Paul O’Flaherty , who is currently living in Denmark, to take the villian test. He’s also known as Apocalypse, sorry to give away your alter ego, [...]

I’m busy on a few projects so I’m rerunning some posts of the past. Here’s one from October, 2006.
All this talk about sem seo certification and training is making my head spin. I mean really, there are plenty of companies or individuals that offer training, some good some not so good. Sure you’re gonna learn [...]

Were you paying attention? Your last pop quiz was on the “5 things you don’t know about me” meme.  This is a pop quiz about that pop quiz. The only person that is exempt from this pop quiz is the answer to question 1. He got an A+ on the first pop quiz and found a [...]

I’ve got great news.  You are all  invited on the China Search Marketing Tour, May 19 - 28. The China Search Marketing Tour is an event partner of Search Engine Strategies which is being held in China May 25 - 26. Don’t worry if you haven’t been studying your Chinese, the entire conference is interpreted live.  You’ve gotta get [...]

I recently interviewed Bruce Clay and thought an introduction was unnecessary. After further thought I realized perhaps all of my readers may not know him. I’m sure I wouldn’t do him justice so I turned to wikipedia for this excellent intro.
Bruce Clay is a professional search engine optimization consultant. He was interviewed by Wired Magazine in their 2004 [...]