I’ve been watching the SEM meet-ups in Denver, Philadelphia, Seattle, etc with envious eyes. Why wasn’t there a group out here, right by the nation’s capital? That’s right Virginia deserves to have a place for Search Engine Marketers to network, chat, exchange tips & tricks, or just laugh about some horribly spammy linking method that was just discovered, with other people who’d get the joke. So I contacted Debra Mastaler, as the closest big name SEM that I knew of, to ask her if she was aware of such a group. She wasn’t, and thanked me for volunteering to set something up… that’ll teach me.

So, tonight, I went ahead and set up a Virginia SEM meetup group (apparently there are 8 people on meetup.com that have been waiting for this group to be created, I guess they just didn’t want the hassle of setting it up… thanks again Debra) I haven’t set a date/location for a first meeting, as I’d like to see how many people sign up, and where they’re located. More likely than not, it’ll be somewhere in Fairfax county, or down towards Richmond in the first 1/2 of May. If you’re from the area (heck we’ll even take people from DC, Southern Maryland, and West Virginia) pop on over and sign up, and see you soon.