Bruce Clay Australia will hold seo training March 10 until March 12th at the Observatory Hotel, Millers Point, NSW for $2,950 or an early bird discount for $2,550. The fees include the three day training course, meals and refreshments, two detailed course manuals, access to the SEOToolset®, Dynamic Site Mapping™, PathStats™ and LinkMaps™ tools for [...]

I was going through my blog log recently and reviewing the blogs I have in my community to clean it up and clear out the blogs that aren’t relevant or current. If someone hasn’t posted to their blog in 90 days, well then there’s no reason to go back. Since I don’t time to read [...]

Bruce Clay Australia will be delivering three, 1 day SEO training courses by Jeremy Bolt starting October 14th in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. You can register here.
Bruce Clay Australia delivers a 1 day search engine optimisation (SEO) training course covering SEO principles and our SEO approach, strategies and methodologies. The training course is presented by [...]

On Thursday November 5th Search Engine Strategies is holding full or half day workshops on Search Engine Marketing (SEM/SEO) Training and Conversion Optimization Training at Downtown Conference Center
157 William Street, New York, NY 10038 . Instructors include Bryan Eisenberg, bryaneisenberg.com, Liana Evans, Director of Social Media, Serengeti Communications, and Jessica Bowman, SEO Strategist and in-house [...]

Search Engine Journal recently announced that they were offering search marketing certification courses in partnership with Market Motive. These courses are 100% online and are taught by an all star lineup. The prices run from $299 to $3500 for a 90 day program that covers SEO, PPC , Web Analytics, and Social Media Marketing. The [...]

I found this on SEMPO’s job posting board and thought it was great so I reposted here. I would love to see anybody’s input and any feedback on working for this company.
The JAR Group is a three-year-old company with a smart, energetic staff. We pride ourselves on having fun while doing high-quality work (We [...]

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, [...]