I am speaking at an SEO seminar next week on August 21st at the Jefferson County Library in Arnold Missouri.  For more info on this free event, see http://www.whereismybusiness.com/seo-seminars.php

I am also looking to speak at other local and nationwide events on SEO, local SEO, etc.  See the ‘hire’ link above.

Thirdly, I’m considering hosting local seminars in Saint Louis various niche web topics.  Therefore I’m looking for a venue, and also other speakers who may be interested in speaking on related (but not competitive) areas.  Seminar speakers would not be paid, but would be allowed to promote his/her business via networking.

Contact me via the links above.

I’ve been a volunteer at the local library for several years, teaching classes on HTML, blogging and SEM. The classes are 3 to 4 hours long, and I always have a great time.

Well this year I’ve decided to only teach one class, my marketing (SEM/SEO) class. The class in the past was always called Marketing Your Business Website. I named it that so that I could (hopefully) target business owners to sign up. In the local newspaper, they list it as “Seminar on marketing your business website”.

This year, however, I’d like to do a little test. I’ll be teaching the same class, but each monthly class will have a different name. I want to see how many people and what demographic of people sign up for the different classes.
So far I’ve come up with the following names (thanks to some friends in the WebmasterRadio chat)

• Improving Your Search Engine Placement
• Your Website is Useless if No One Can Find It
• Attracting Customers with Search Marketing
• Why Your Website Isn’t Listed in Yahoo
• Improving Your Website’s ROI
• Your Business on Page One of Google
• Destroy Your Competition on Google
• Helping Customers Find Your Website
• How Romanian Kids Make More on the Internet than You Do as a Grocery Clerk (ok maybe not that one)

Do you have any other suggestions?

Well 2008 will be the year that I finally plan on going to not one - but two conferences!

Those of you that read my site already know that I’m a Local Search nut. The money is too easy and ranking isn’t very hard either. So I’ll be going to SMX Local for sure.

And the other one I would like to go to is the big one in San Jose. Since that is the week that my kids start school, I kinda doubt I’ll be able to make it. So I’ll probably be looking for another conference. Maybe SES Chicago, although I hear it’s not all that great.

The folks over at Search Engine Guide are going to be hosting a new seminar for small businesses that are wanting to get into search marketing. The event is in mid-April and the early registration is $850. It’s called Small Business Marketing Unleashed.

There will be some good speakers there (not me, but still some good ones) speaking on a nice variety of marketing topics. The seminar looks to be geared towards small businesses who have little/no online marketing but would like to get started in that arena. It also may be a good seminar for those just starting out in SEM/SEO.

Plus, Texas in April? How can you go wrong?

Link: http://unleashed.smallbusinessanswers.com/

Lastly, for those of you already into SEM/SEO - there are some nice sponsorship opportunities as well

Disclaimer: This is not a paid post. I did this on my own free will and am not receiving any compensation for posting this information. Have fun and come back and tell me how it was.