SEO Training April 23 at Four Points by Sheraton Chicago O'Hare Airport

Jill Whalen of High Rankings, a leading search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) firm, will show business owners, marketing managers and others how their Web sites can elevate their presence in search results on Google, Yahoo and other search engines at a day-long seminar at Four Points by Sheraton Chicago O'Hare Airport on April 23.

(PRWEB) April 4, 2004 --Business owners, marketing managers, Web site designers, Internet copywriters, and Webmasters who want to achieve high rankings in Google, Yahoo and other search engines can learn the fundamentals of search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) from one of the industrys leading SEO and SEM consultants next month in Chicago.

Jill Whalen, who has been helping Web sites achieve greater targeted traffic from search engines since 1995, will bring the High Rankings Search Engine Marketing Seminar to Four Points by Sheraton Chicago O'Hare Airport on April 23. Seminar topics include effective copywriting and site design, how to secure relevant inbound links, search engine advertising campaigns, and measuring results.

Whalen, the owner of High Rankings, a search engine marketing firm in greater Boston, has helped hundreds of clients achieve top-10 rankings, which, in turn, often doubles, triples and quadruples their sales. Ted Northrup, owner of mapshop.com, a Charlotte, N.C., retailer of maps, globes and other cartographic products, noted that his sales were up 50% after attending a similar High Rankings seminar.

"Individuals and organizations will learn how to make slight changes to their Web sites so that they are more easily found in Google, Yahoo and other search engines," says Whalen. "The popular site reviews we do at the end of the day provide numerous ideas, which, when incorporated into Web sites, provide dramatic results to the bottom line."

Whalen publishes free information and answers questions about search engine optimization and search engine marketing on her Web site, http://www.highrankings.com, which Alexa.com ranks as the second most-popular search engine optimization firm on the Web. She also publishes tips and advice in her free e-mail newsletter, the "High Rankings Advisor."

In addition, Whalen heads up the High Rankings Forum, a popular online discussion group about SEO and SEM topics, located at http://www.highrankings.com/forum. Several of the forums moderators will also participate in next months seminar, including Christine Churchill of KeyRelevance, Karon Thackston of MarketingWords, Debra Mastaler of Alliance-Link, and Matt Bailey of The Karcher Group.

For further information about attending or sponsoring this event, please visit http://www.highrankings.com/seminarpr

What: High Rankings Search Engine Marketing Seminar
When: Friday, April 23, 2004, 9AM-5PM (including lunch)
Where: Four Points by Sheraton Chicago O'Hare Airport, 10249 West Irving Park Road, Schiller Park, Illinois 60176
How Much: $650.00
For further information: http://www.highrankings.com

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