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Today is exciting because I’m heading out to the Cleveland and Akron offices of the Brouse McDowell Law Firm to talk about how to search.

I’ve printed these two pages for them:
Go over the Google Cheat Sheet

Review Advanced Operators

I also want to talk about these items:
Google Alerts
Technorati

Poodle Predictor - See your site like Google does. Simulate search engines and predict your Google listings.

Keyword Frequency Counter by SageRock.com

And then I want to talk about the new rss subscribe feature of IE7.

Searchenginewatch.com just reported on the most recent search engine use stats:

Search Popularity Stats, Sliced & Diced
It’s interesting because Google’s reach swings anywhere from 45.4%(comScore) to 60.9%(Hitwise).

Web Increasingly Used For Local Service Business Searches

Among more than 2,800 consumer responses, 70% had used the Internet to search for a local service business and 46% did so in the past three months.

Today I’m doing a live all day blog over at Cleveland SEO

I’m doing a lot of posts. But I’m also going to try to do some video and pictures.

I’ll be covering the whole event and featuring the recommendations made at the event.

So, check it out!

Joel Cheesman from OASEO.com - an SEO job search community came by and did an interview with me. You can check it out here:

If you are looking for seo people or are a search engine optimization specialist be sure to check out OASEO.com - an SEO job search community.
Thanks Joel!

At Cleveland State every student is asked to fill out a survey of the class. The comments are then sent anonymously back to me. These were some of the comments from the first time I taught that class:
* Great course — cutting edge!
* Best I’ve seen. Exciting.
* Great course - will definitely do a write-up on my blog that you can cross-link to.
* Sage Lewis is a keeper. This was an excellent class! I will be looking for his name in future courses. I will be suggesting his class to internet people at my company.

I recently spoke at Lakeland. As part of the class I made a post here with links to some resources that I felt were useful. One of the students wrote a comment to that post here:
http://www.sagerock.com/weblog/2006/10/30/lakeland-e-business-class-on-wednesday/

She wrote:

# Laural Wagner Says:
November 12th, 2006 at 8:26 pm e

WOW! This presentation was excellent. The resources provided here are great. Sage, you are dynamite. To anyone reading this who is thinking about working with Sage or hearing him speak, DO IT! I’m serious, this guy is great. Five Stars, no question.
“Crazy Algorithms”

Thanks Laural! I do love teaching.
Take care,
Sage

Here are a couple emails from a person who took my most recent SEO class at Cleveland State:

Hi Sage,
This is Dagmara Ragone,I took your SEO class at CSU recently.
Men, were you great teacher!!
I was shocked when I discovered today, that after little SEO work done to my housbend’s company website RagoneBuilders.com I got on Google those results:

I got on:

2 !!! position in “cleveland basement waterproofing contractors” Tot.results: 55,500
5 (7th) position in “cleveland basement waterproofing” Tot.results: 69,200
8 position !!! in “cleveland garages contractors” Tot.results: 1,490,000 !!!
23 position in “cleveland garages” Tot.results: 6,530,000 !!!!!!!
16 position in “cleveland wall replacement contractors” Tot.results: 1,060,000 !!!!

WOW! Thank you Sage!
I wish I could get this done to MY Design website

Have a good day!
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From: Dagmara Ragone
Date: Oct 26, 2006 12:29 AM
Subject: Sage, you wont believe this one!!
To: Sage Lewis

Google

keyword : “best cleveland construction contractors”

Tot. results: 1,840,000

my website RagoneBuilders.com
position: 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

one more time Sage,
thanks you are great SEO teacher!

D.Ragone
www.advancedwwwsolutions.com
440.390.8104

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Google keyword: ” cleveland construction contractors”

Tot. results: 3,020,000

my position 1 !!!!

I know why I got those results, it’s not the best way…. but get you there.

Thank Sage,
and I promise now more spam e-mails!

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Thanks Dagmara! I’m so glad you were able to apply all the things we talked about. Take care!
Sage

I’m always losing testimonials that I would occassionally like to use in various marketing efforts. I know I put them somewhere but everytime I go to look for them I can never find them. So, I thought I’d put them here and see if I can remember that I blogged about them. I’ll follow up with a couple posts of testimonials. I’ve created a Testimonials category here where I’ll try to remember to post them.

It can have some pretty bad consequences.