High Rankings Search Engine Marketing Seminar Comes to Minneapolis

Minneapolis, MN (PRWeb) March 1, 2007 -- http://www.highrankings.com/msp - High Rankings®, a Search Engine Marketing industry leader, is conducting a Search Engine Marketing (SEM) seminar in Minneapolis, MN March 15th-16th at the Crowne Plaza Northstar.

Unlike other live SEO and SEM seminars, the High Rankings® Search Engine Marketing seminar shares a complete SEM process that works. Expert speakers will build upon one another's topics providing a consistent process for converting website visitors into paying customers.

Online marketing expert Lee Odden, CEO of local SEO agency TopRank, is a featured speaker at the seminar. Odden is a 10 year veteran search marketer and speaks frequently on the topics of search engine optimization, blog marketing and online public relations. In his session, "UnGoogle Your Search Marketing," Odden will teach attendees how they can employ blogs, social media and optimized press releases as alternative, yet complimentary sources of web site traffic.

"It's an honor to have a pioneer in the search marketing industry like Jill Whalen and her team of top notch trainers come to the Twin Cities to share their knowledge and it's even more of an honor to have been asked to be part of the seminar," comments Odden. "The search marketing industry as a whole is scrambling to train enough people to meet the demand for quality web site optimization and the High Rankings® Seminar will provide a unique, hands on opportunity to learn about SEO and SEM from people who live and breathe search marketing on a daily basis."

Additional speakers and sessions include:
- High Rankings® Founder & CEO Jill Whalen presenting "Technical SEO," "The Nitty Gritty of Writing for Search Engines" and "Putting it All Together"
- Marketing Words Inc. CEO Karon Thackston presenting "Copywriting for Success"
- KeyRelvance.com President Christine Churchill presenting "Effective Keyword Research" and "The Ins & Outs of Paid Search"
- Right Click Web Consulting CEO Scottie Claiborne presenting "Link Building" and "Usability & SEO" and
- SiteLogic CEO Matt Bailey presenting "Measuring Success" & "Cool Tools for Diagnosing Website Problems"

Event details
High Rankings® Search Engine Marketing Seminar
Thursday March 15th-Friday March 16th, 2007
Crowne Plaza Northstar, Minneapolis MN
Enter code MSP3 when registering & save 25%; receive an additional 10% if you refer a friend!
http://www.highrankings.com/msp

About High Rankings®
High Rankings® is an internationally recognized search engine optimization firm located in Framingham, MA specializing in search engine optimization, SEO consultations, site analysis reports, SEM seminars. CEO and founder, Jill Whalen, is the host of the free High Rankings® Advisor search engine marketing newsletter and the author of "The Nitty-gritty of Writing for the Search Engines." She has also recently co-founded SEMNE, a local search engine marketing networking organization for people and companies in New England.

Agency Contact       
Bill Arnovich
Misukanis & Odden
952-400-0342

Company Contact
Pauline Kerbici
High Rankings®
508-309-3037

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