The SEMPO Asia Tour will be coming to Singapore on June 9th and then on to China and India. We’re excited to have them here in Singapore as we grow the SEMPO membership and educate the market on search marketing in general. We’ll be participating in ad:tech Singapore with a booth and then a meeting [...]

If you didn’t get the memo or haven’t seen this online then here are upcoming search marketing or online events that offer a SEMPO discount.
Online Marketing Summit Whistle Stop Tour – Registration Discount of 20%
May 5 – July 2 — Sixteen Different Locations
This educational event is coming to your neighborhood with its 16-city Whistle Stop [...]

Congratulations to Motoko Hunt who has received the inaugural Presidents Award from the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO). She is the chair of SEMPO Asia and has been the co-chair of SEMPO Japan since 2005. Motoko is Founder and President of AJPR, a Japanese search marketing firm. Before establishing AJPR in 1998, she was [...]

It’s really great when a group of people get together to do good. All too often the seo industry is lumped together as snake oil salesmen, scam artists, etc. I personally don’t know anyone in that class and know that we as an industry don’t like anyone that brings attention to us by their unethical [...]

At the last conference I attended in the US, SES San Jose, I was standing in a group of about seven people and four of them were named Dave. Okay they probably were really Davids but all of us named David are often referred to as Dave. Personally when asked whether I prefer Dave or [...]

This is my first guest post on this blog. I often have trouble coming up with content and I thought these were great insights from my guest blogger Dr. Matt McDougall, Group CEO & Executive Chairman of SinoTech Group. Matt is an active member of the SEMPO Asia Working Group and speaks at industry conferences [...]

‘O, the lisa’
O, the lisa, where have you gone
we miss your written word.
What have you seen, what have your read,
please tell us what you’ve heard.
You blogged that SMX went black
the mobs let loose their hate.
You did not flinch, you stood your ground
you set the record straight.
The Gray Wolf howled BlogHer’s unfair,
they wouldn’t let men speak.
You [...]

Who am I? That is a question man has pondered since time immemorial. So how could I go about answering the question, who is David Temple? Well, I could attend a course where according to the syllabus I would read and respond in individual, literal, critical and evaluative ways to literary, informational and persuasive text [...]

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 [...]