If you live in the New York city area, you might be interested in a three-hour crash course in search marketing I’m teaching at the Learning Annex this Tuesday evening.

If you’re too lazy to compile your own list of the best search marketing blogs out there, never fear.

When you’ve spent the last 6-7 years of your life helping to build successful search engine optimization/marketing firms, you tend to learn a few things about what works and what doesn’t work.

Business optimization software company Omniture now offers a free guide to improving a website’s search engine marketing in seven steps.

As Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft ramp up the battle for local search dollars, retailers new to the online world need to track the effectiveness of their online advertising campaigns.

The 64-page “Essential Guide to Search Engine Marketing” features a treasure trove of articles on a range of SEM topics.

While News Corp.-owned MySpace.com courts major search engines to expand its advertising offerings through search marketing, it is also looking to expand its Australian base to better target its 800,000 Aussie members.

If you’ve not already subscribed to the newly launched Search Marketing Standard magazine, you should sign-up immediately.

Sponsored links are two to four times as likely as organic links to lead a searcher to a “risky” or “dangerous” website, according to McAfee’s Site Advisor researchers Ben Edelman and Hannah Rosenbaum. The keyword most likely to deliver those links: [free screensavers].

You’ve got until April 30th to take advantage of a free subscription to the newly launching Search Marketing Standard magazine.