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Chicago, IL September 25, 2007 -- SEO-PR and Searching for Profit today announced that they will offer an SEO training class focused on "Getting found in all the right places" following the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo 2007 in Chicago (http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/chicago/training.html to view a description of this and five other search training classes.
About Greg Jarboe
Greg Jarboe is the president and co-founder of SEO-PR, a search engine optimization firm and public relations agency with offices in San Francisco and Boston. SEO-PR is one of 10
companies that Larry Chase's Web Digest for Marketers named to its Who's Who in SEO Experts. SEOmoz.org has put SEO-PR on its Recommended List of SEO Consultants, Experts, Firms and
Service Providers.
Greg is a frequent speaker at Search Engine Strategies, WebmasterWorld's PubCon, and other industry conferences. Gord Hotchkiss, who writes the Out of My Gord blog, has called Greg "the
guru of cranking up web visibility through effective optimization of press releases and leveraging news search." Lee Odden, who writes the Online Marketing Blog, has called Greg "a
pioneer in the field of using search engine optimization in combination with press releases."
Greg has more than 25 years of experience in public relations, marketing, and search engine optimization at Lotus Development Corp., Ziff-Davis, and other companies. He graduated from the
University of Michigan, attended the University of Edinburgh, and worked on his Masters at Lesley College. He is a member of the Market Motive faculty, which teaches the concepts and best
practices of Internet marketing.
About Amanda Watlington
Amanda Watlington Ph.D., A.P.R is the founder of Searching for Profit, a consultancy that focuses on how businesses can leverage search engines and new media such as blogging, RSS and
podcasting to achieve marketing objectives. She has over twenty years of experience as a communications, sales and business strategy consultant, and over ten years as a Web marketer. For
clients, Amanda has developed award-winning print, Web, training, and presentation media.
Amanda is the author of two books. Her most recent book is Business Blogs: A Practical Guide. Amanda is a sought-after presenter and a recognized industry thought leader. She appears
regularly as a speaker at Search Engine Strategies and DMA's Annual and Multi-Channel Marketing conferences, and WebmasterWorld's Search conferences. She serves on DMA's Search Engine
Marketing Council, She is the co-chair of the Web Analytics Association's research committee and has served on the search and research committees of IAB.
Lee Odden, who writes the Online Marketing Blog has stated that "Amanda is famous for her in-depth knowledge of blogs, RSS and podcasting."
Her education includes a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Eastern Michigan University. She is a member of the Direct
Marketing Association (DMA), the Web Analytics Association (WAA), and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and has an APR accreditation.