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 a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 agency, [...]

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 [...]

Don’t you people have enough work to do? If so then why is everyone busy sending me the latest Facebook time wasters like this email I got from my friend Sante: Sante J. Achille sent you this message: I’ve been rating your intellect, wit, drive, sense of humor, and other attributes. See where you stand, [...]

While I was traveling to China and last week Canada (more about that in a few weeks) I was tagged for a variety of memes. Well I’m not big on memes as I pointed out here even though I wrote a huge post about the “5 things you didn’t know about me” meme. But this [...]

Danny Sullivan’s new conference SMX Advanced which bills itself as “SMX Advanced is for the experienced search marketer who wants to enjoy sessions conducted at a high-level and continue to stay ahead in the fast changing world of search”, has started today and you can learn more from thanks to these hard working folks. Thank [...]

My last post on memes “Another day, another meme” indicated I was not really excited about answering questions on why I blog or anything else for that matter. In fact I talked myself out of blogging for awhile and concentrated on other things right at a time when I was making wholeseale changes to this [...]

Okay I’ve been tagged in another blog meme. If you want to follow this meme the good folks at SoloSEO have created a blog meme tracker much like the “5 things you didn’t know about me” meme but this time you can edit it. I’m flattered that the Pope of local search, Paul Jahn, and [...]

Andy Beal’s SEM Scholarship contest is well underway and there are some great articles out there. I wanted to give a shout out to my friend and fellow China traveler Nicole St. Martin aka SEMgirl. Nicole has written an article for the contest entitled “So You Wanna Be A Search Marketer” where she talks about [...]

Dave thought he was dreaming. Sitting across the kitchen table from him was an alien. An honest to goodness alien, just like everyone describes. A short grey skinned humanoid with large dark bug like eyes and small mouth. “I really must be dreaming”, he said to himself. “This can’t be real”. Dave was held in [...]