New Marketing Pilgrim SEM Scholarship Announced

Andy Beal has officially launched Marketing Pilgrim's Search Engine Marketing Scholarship for 2007.

We were delighted that Andy asked Search Engine College to be involved again this year and we've donated a Certified Search Engine Marketing Pathway course valued at $1,195, to the prize pool.

This year the scholarship consists of a fantastic $10,000 prize package, including the following items:

• A full conference pass to the Search Engine Strategies conference held in San Jose, this August.
• The winner’s article will be published in the industry print magazine, Search Marketing Standard.
• Enrollment in a Certified Search Engine Marketer Pathway course at SearchEngineCollege.com.
• One month of industry coaching and training from search marketing expert Andy Beal.
• One year of AdWatcher.com service (ad tracking and click fraud monitoring) and one year of AdScientist.com service (bid management).
• One year subscription to WebmasterWorld.com.
• One year premium membership to SEOmoz.org.
• A free web analytics account from CrazyEgg.com.
• A one year Bizwatch account from BizResearch.com.
• A one year subscription to the SEO project management site, SoloSEO.com.
• A copy of Aaron Wall’s “SEO Book.”
• A copy of Jennifer Laycock’s book, “Small Business Guide to Search Engine Marketing.”
• A copy of Andrew Goodman’s book, “Winning Results with Google AdWords.”
• A copy of Kim Krause Berg’s books “Please Ring Bell for Service” and “How to Quench Your Web Site Visitors’ Thirst.”
• A cash prize ($100) courtesy of Cre8asiteforums.com.
• Link-ninja sword (wooden), throwing stars (rubber), clock, t-shirt and $100 cash courtesy of WeBuildPages.com.
• More prizes to be announced.

Scholarship contestants simply need to submit an article on any subject related to search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click advertising (PPC) or social media optimization (SMO) before April 6 2007. Click here for more entry details. The five finalists will have their article reviewed by a panel of judges and the winner will be announced on May 21.

Andy has asked me to be a judge this year and I'm really looking forward to reading all the entries. Good luck to all contestants!

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