Please join the Denver Entrepreneurs for our February meeting including power networking and education. Mike Belasco, a local Search Engine Optimization expert, will be sharing some great information that can help all of us optimize our websites, blogs, social media platforms, press releases, etc., to get even more traffic, prospects and customers

Google and other search engines work on algorithms to rank your site that are often secret. Mike Belasco has obviously broken the code helping scores of companies be ranked on the first page of Google. Founder of SEO Overflow, Mike will be talking to us about search engine optimization and why it is so important. Make sure you have the right keywords in the right places on your website, blog etc, Want to find out where to do keyword research? Are the meta tags still important?

Your web designer may say they do SEO, but in reality do they?  Mike will answer these questions and more to make sure you know the basics of SEO and what it takes have a successful website that is truly optimized for search engines. The next time someone says they know SEO and wants to optimize your website, you'll be able to ask them the right questions.

About Mike

A thought leader in search engine marketing, Mike Belasco, president of seOverflow, began his journey in the mid-90’s developing websites and studying search engine optimization when it was in its infancy. Mike continued to hone his internet marketing knowledge during the dot com boom while working at Sun Microsystems, Level 3 Communications, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service before launching his own business as an independent consultant.

During his tenure as a consultant, Mike found a niche assisting web designers and other marketing professionals expand their offering to include search engine optimization without having to specialize in the ever changing SEO space. Mike continues to live and breathe all things search engine optimization ensuring that he and his staff stay at the forefront of the industry.
As a subject matter expert, Mike regularly speaks at national industry events and conferences including:

• Search Engine Strategies (SES)
  
• Search Engine Marketing Professionals of Portland (SEMpdx) Webinars
  
• Business Marketing Association (BMA).
  

Mike frequently writes for WebProNews.com and LocalSearchNews.net and is a certified Yahoo Search Marketing Ambassador. His blog was named 'Best Local Search Blog' in 2006 by Search Engine Journal. Mike holds a business systems information degree from the University of Colorado in Boulder. His website is www.seoverflow.com.

RSVP for our February meeting.