If you’re looking for a good laugh, please read the worst search engine marketing article ever.

Student. Blogger. Athlete. Mikey Hendison is the definitive “Renaissance Child”. Don’t believe me? Ask Google. Google knows. Check out these Google SERPS.

Google knows what we already know…Mikey is the coolest kid in the universe. Stephen Spencer’s daughter isn’t the only search marketing prodigy…Mikey will probably be able to fully pay for college using online advertising revenue (well his parents hope so).

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Search Marketing Expo – SMX West
February 26-28, 2008
Santa Clara, CA

Register now! Current price expires on January 12!
SEMpdx members can view the discount code in the member area of the website.

SMX West promises to be another amazing conference for anyone looking to sharpen their search and internet marketing skills. Don’t miss it!

Most internet marketers know to purchase their own name as a dot com domain name if it is available. However, many don’t think to purchase the names of their spouses & children and that is a mistake for several reasons:

• Once it’s gone, it’s likely gone forever.
• It’s becoming more and more clear that the dot com domain name of a person’s full name will be a major part of their digital identity. A digital identity will be much harder to establish on a dot net or dot org domain.

The second part of Lisa Peyton’s interview can be read here.

…and best wishes for a happy & prosperous 2008.

I’m pretty sure that I first saw this video at a conference in Portland, and it was pretty impressive at getting the point across. At the end of the video, it only briefly gives credit to the creator, Michael Wesch - Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.

I just managed to stumble across it again, through a mention at Christian Mezeis blog, and it turns out that the video was available on You Tube where it has had over 4 million views already.

SEMpdx members have yet ANOTHER way to get more value out of their membership, by attending the Online Marketing Summit, February 21 - 23, in San Diego, California.

SEMpdx members can save $600 on registration. For more info, visit their site…

How hard should it be to get a site spidered and into Microsoft search index for a site that’s over 3 years old, and has been in Google and Yahoo for years?

Even if they won’t follow my 301 redirect, don’t you think that submitting an XML site map at Microsoft’s Live Search Webmaster Tools would do the trick?