We are very excited to let all of the Search Engine Optimization Journal readers know that I along with my SEO company, Brick Marketing will be presenting a full day SEO training workshop scheduled for April 21, 2010. The full day SEO training will be held at the Brick Marketing training office at 101 Federal Street in downtown Boston, MA.
This day long SEO workshop is being taught by Brick Marketing president and SEO Expert, Nick Stamoulis. To learn more or to register for the workshop please visit the registration page located at http://www.boston-internet-marketing.eventbrite.com .
This SEO workshop will consist of topics that range from beginner type topics all the way to advanced topic discussions. This workshop is only limited to 10 total registrations, so seats are limited. Brick Marketing put a cap on this workshop in order to keep the event very intimate where he could answer all SEO related questions that any attendee might have.
Here are some of the SEO topics Nick Stamoulis will teach during the workshop:
• Research – Research is a very important area before you start any online marketing campaign. To get SEO right you need to take the right steps early in the process and that all starts with being able to conduct the right type of research.
• SEO Basics – Before you can start to take on the advanced topics and really create a great deal of inbound traffic for yourself you will have to understand the basic components first.
• Keywords and Great Content – Not sure what keywords are? This workshop will teach you everything you need to know about keywords and how to properly conduct keyword research for your search engine marketing campaign.
• Link Building – Have you heard this term over and over and have absolutely no clue what it is? Nick Stamoulis will go over exactly what link building is, how it will apply to your business and how you can properly put together a well thought out link building plan to help grow your business!
Each attendee can leave the workshop knowing that they have a good positive grasp to take the information back to their business or team and start conducting all their internet marketing efforts by themselves. If you are a business that needs to incorporate SEO into the marketing mix don’t wait any longer.
To sign up for the full day Boston SEO Workshop, please visit the following registration page:
http://www.boston-internet-marketing.eventbrite.com
How to Break Into the SEO Clique
If you are in the search engine optimization industry or you are trying to break into this incredibly saturated industry to make a name for yourself you might have a difficult time getting excepted into the circle of friends at the top of the food chain. The “elite” group that has been in the industry [...]
If you are in the search engine optimization industry or you are trying to break into this incredibly saturated industry to make a name for yourself you might have a difficult time getting excepted into the circle of friends at the top of the food chain. The “elite” group that has been in the industry since day one and think they are the all mighty of the industry. The SEO industry leaders have become a tough group of individuals to become friendly with and it doesn’t seem to be getting any easier. All the “gurus” at the top that think they know every about everything seem to feel that they run this industry like they own it. The SEO industry is kind of like an open source program that should be treated like a group effort. There is plenty of business to go around. Lots of businesses out there that need help promoting themselves in the online space. People need to participate, communicate and get involved to make it a better place for everyone. One person tries something that works well they write about and things spread leading to better online marketing efforts.
I have been actively working in the internet marketing industry for over 12 years, have built Brick Marketing for 5 years successfully and have helped hundreds of clients in the field of SEO yet my educational comments that I leave on certain search engine marketing blogs get deleted, why do you think this happens? Leaving all names aside a certain someone contacted me not too long ago and asked me to stop commenting on a certain blog. Yes, I left a comment on each blog very frequently but isn’t that the whole purpose of starting a blog. These where all well written comments that where generated with real thought process adding to the overall message the blog post was trying to convey. Isn’t the whole idea of a blog to get the community interacting in your conversation? Since when is it bad to leave an educated comment on someone’s blog? Even if the frequency was high it shouldn’t really matter. I have seen this occur with other websites as well. I have seen the tone of this click with others trying to make a name for themselves in the industry and I often see a certain nastiness resonating in the tone of a variety of online discussions. Don’t get me wrong I understand this is a tough industry and if you spend some time in it you get beat up a little but that doesn’t mean you have to be nasty to your colleagues and peers around you especially if they own and operate a successful search engine marketing firm. I apologize if I have not visited you at the trade shows and stroked your ego like many people do. Is it that I don’t kiss the asses of every individual in the “cool group”?
There is plenty of room in the school yard for everyone to get along. Is it because I am a threat to them or the industry? Sometimes I feel like this industry is a lot like high school all over again. You got your cool kids that think they are too good for everyone else and you got everyone else trying to shine in front of their eyes. I by no means want to break into the “cool” click and become one of those has to have their ass kissed by everyone else.
Why is it so hard for people in this industry to come together and work as a team? I understand that everyone is trying to grow their own business but there is no reason why so many internet marketing professionals have to have such a cold shoulder towards each other. We are all in the same game and we do the best we can to provide our clients with great service.
If you are an internet marketer or SEO person do you feel like our industry is heading in this direction as well? Please leave your comments and any related experiences or stories below!