SEOContest2008

SEO people are everywhere and seem to increase in a fast number. Some people know it, some people don’t. Some people think they do, but they really don’t. And this is where companies intending to hire SEOs or looking for companies to do SEO for their own businesses, are looking for certification credentials. More on this topic can be seen in David Temple’s SEO/SEM Certification blog.

Unfortunately, the origin of SEO people came from all sorts of backgrounds, usually people who were writers for websites, web designers and web developers, or internet marketers wanting to learn more how to effectively market online on search engines and this industry became a helping industry where people share information with others.

Now as more and more SEO people increase, there seems to be a need to find out who knows what and how much people know. There are clients and companies that will accept results as your credentials which so far has been working for me, by showing them the search engine ranking results of my own SEO clients. Unfortunately, that does not work with everyone and a certification help convince them that you have reached a certain level of knowledge capable of delivering the results the client want.

I then decided to take a look into several certification programs and will probably go through them one at a time and just present to the world, hey I’m certified! Just to gain even more trust. And in my search, there are tons of schools out there, left and right, offering their own certification, I only found 1 that actually has an SEO State Board Certification. You will be an SEO certified in Pennsylvania, it is from SEOTraining.org. Yes you read it right, State Board for SEO, by the state government. You get to be a Certified Sewage Enforcement Officer!

• Have you heard of Google TV as an Easter egg feature in Gmail? Some dude named Mark Ericsson claims their is this Easter egg in Gmail to watch Google TV. True? I don’t know. Try doing the procedure to make it come out.
• How to do keyword research and what is Keyword Effective index or KEI. Learn how to do it well for your websites.

Yeah, yeah, yeah it’s on the forums, it’s on mailing list, I hear it from my co-workers at the Search Marketing Group, all talking about I got PR this, I got PR that. PR updates were happening since January 2. The problem though with that update was a lot of sites were actually losing PR, like PR7 and PR6 sites were getting PR0, and also missing in the SERPs. But the funny thing about it, it was happening on the homepages of sites and not on the inside pages. It took about a week for these sites to get fixed. Right now we are now on the 3rd week of the PR updates and this is when I noticed a lot of people talking. Co-workers, other bloggers, forum posters, it’s like the majority just noticed updates 2 days ago. But this was actually ongoing since January 2 as reported on other sites. As for my sites, I have a lot of PR0’s turning into PR4’s which I am not surprised with the work I have put into them. But the my PR6 site became PR5. My lucky PR7 was just lucky last October was just really a lucky PR7, it is now back to PR0. Generally, still all good.