Holy Blog Of Doom, Batman! I just climbed out from under my rock and realised I have not updated this since they let me out!… You would not believe how much more of a drama I could make that. Stupid Global Warming!.
I am flat out like a lizard drinking with discovering time doesn’t stand still, [...]

Andy Beal, founder of Trackur, blogger at Marketing Pilgrim and co author of the online reputation management book Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online, will be offering the workshop August 7, 2008 at the Sigma Xi Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Online reputation management is a growing field which was born out [...]

Sure, this blog is about search engine marketing training but as more and more search marketing companines add social media optimization into their services it makes sense to include smo or smm training on this blog.
This blog does not endorse any training programs for several reasons. The first reason is that there are just [...]

Singapore, Singapore — With an appeal to his search marketing friends to “transform search engine marketing,” David Temple said Saturday that he’s running for the president of the United States.
Temple made his announcement on twitter, plurk, facebook, and ping.fm to a fragmented audience. His hero Abraham Lincoln said in 1858 that “a house [...]

This is a one day Search Engine Strategies (SES) seo training class to be held July 17th in Seattle, Washington. The course fees are $1,345 and include Optimizing for Universal Search, Part I & Part II or Just The Basics, SEO 101, Part I and Part II. You can register here. By the way, I [...]

This seminar hosted by SEOMoz will be held in Seattle on August 19 -20th and is limited to 150 participants. Last year’s event was sold out so you better hurry if you want to attend. I won’t be able to make it since I’ve already committed to attend SES but would have loved to had [...]

If you’ve read this blog before you know there are several types of seo and sem training available. There are self study online, online instructor led, classroom/workshops, seminars, conferences, etc. One of my favorite type of seo training is the classroom or face to face training. Why? Well you can get your questions answered right [...]

Google’s Vinton Cerf on the future of the Internet

This year’s Marketing Pilgrim’s SEM Scholarship contest is up and running. The articles were posted today and I recommend you read them. There are some real nuggets in the group, I won’t say which I prefer since I don’t want to sway the judges (like that will happen).
When I entered the original contest [...]

Search Engine Strategies (SES) have always provided training in the form of conferences and in the last few years have added a training day prior to or after the conference. Now they are offering training only sessions in a variety of cities. This may not be news, I’ve been out of circulation for a much [...]

This three day search engine workshop is being offered by Search Engine Academy of South Carolina on May 20 -22, 2008.
The prices are $430 for beginner course, one day, $875 for the two day advanced and $1,250 for all three days.
The seo training we offer combines both the art of internet marketing with the [...]

Bruce Clay SEO Training March 17 - 19, Syndey Australia

We deliver an in-depth 3 day training course covering search engine optimisation (SEO) principles, our SEO approach, strategies and methodologies and access to our SEOToolSet™. The course is presented by Bruce Clay, the President of Bruce Clay, Inc.
This SEO training course was presented for the [...]

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 [...]

Google has the Google Adwords Professional (GAP), Yahoo has the Yahoo! Search Marketing Ambassador Program and now Microsoft has developed their own sem training and certification with adExcellence. Microsoft adExcellence is opened to all US based adCenter users. It is the official training and accreditation program for adCenter.
The Microsoft adExcellence program gives advertisers the ability [...]