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1st National Search Engine Optimizers Day

Written by PixelBella from http://pixelposition.com on July 28th, 2008 | 7 Comments

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National Search Engine Optimizers Day - 08.08.08

It’s international. It’s unofficial. It was made up on Twitter!

What’s National SEO Day all about?

National Search Engine Optimizers Day celebrates the power of SEO, viral marketing and our love of social search. See the SEO, SEM and SMO in our little badge?. It’s about unity! (And don’t the 2008 Olympics start on the same day, August 8, 2008?)

The day was “made up” by Dana Larson on Twitter and carried forward together with Dana Lookadoo on Twitter. Read the history and find out how National Search Engine Optimizers Day was born.

Next Generation SEOs

Those who practice online marketing probably care about the next generation of SEOs. There is a huge need for training and realize colleges are not delivering curriculum needed to enter the field.

Maybe National SEO Day and this site can serve as an avenue to raise money for an annual SEO Scholarship Fund. (Dana and Dana don’t want to touch any money, so is there a need for a non-profit?) There are some great SEO training organizations that we have yet to contact. Scholarship money would go to helping candidates pay for courses. We don’t have this figured out yet, but doing something good to help the industry would sure be nice.

Where do you come in?

Are you an SEO, SEM and/or SMO?

  • If you answered, “I don’t know,” feel free to close your browser window.
  • If you answered “yes,” then join us for a little fun and help us create a vision to celebrate our disciplines.

How?

  1. Show your support and paste the badge shown right on your site. Link to “http://nationalseoday.com”.lseo
  2. Comment on this blog, subscribe, talk about the efforts, help make it viral, etc.
  3. Blog about National Search Engine Optimizers Day on 08.08.08 or send tweets on Twitter that include #NatSEODay.
  4. Consider becoming a guest contributor to this blog. We would like to post best practices for SEO and online marketing that are NOT selling services, practices that would help someone new to the SEO industry.

What will you get in return?

  1. An excuse to lobby for “National SEO Day perks” on August 8, 2008.
  2. Maybe we can all get free Wi-Fi at Starbucks to enable us to tweet about our day off!
  3. An opportunity to shape the next generation of SEOs!
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7 Responses to “1st National Search Engine Optimizers Day”

  1. Adam(PixelHead)
    August 1st, 2008 at 11:21 am

    Hmm, I certainly hope we don’t see Hallmark coming out with cards for clients to give to their SEOs.
    I fully agree with you that the educational system will be developing programs of study for SEO engineers and such. I can see programs from Associates to Doctoral programs evolving.

  2. lookadoo
    August 1st, 2008 at 11:34 am

    Adam, I’m laughing! We definitely don’t want to “Hallmarkize” National SEO Day!

    We so agree with you, and hopefully we can do a little, together, to improve education and awareness of the skills needed for quality SEO.

    Thanks for being our first comment and wish we had a special prize! Actually, we are in countdown now that today is 08.01.08 and need to finish this site.

    Nice to meet you and look forward to hearing from you more.

  3. Esperto Seo
    August 7th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

    I’m very pleased about your contest :)

    Esperto Seo & Community are HERE!

  4. lookadoo
    August 7th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    Thank you for Esperto SEO and for spreading the word on your site in Italian. Stay tuned, and we’ll share more next year. We’ve been so busy “doing” SEO that we haven’t had time to promote National SEO.

    We’re hoping to raise awareness around the world this coming year, and you are our first international SEO. So nice to meet you!

  5. Seolo
    August 7th, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    Great! I’m very happy for this idea.

    Seolos last blog post..Partita Costa D’Avorio vs. Argentina.

  6. Ciao Seo
    August 8th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    we italians can’t miss an event like this…
    way to go!

    ciao ;)

  7. lookadoo
    August 8th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    Grazie! We’re so excited about your interest and for sharing the vision. You’ve motivated me to learn Italian!

    Happy National SEO Day to our Italian SEOs!

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