Back from March break .... and an interesting discovery here today. My primary line of business happens to be that I'm a frequent keynote speaker at conferences. Today, a search for "keynote speaker" in a variety of search engines places me at the following spots (ignoring the paid listings):

Google - 1
Altavista - 2
Yahoo - 1
Teoma - 1
AOL - 1

I've worked long and hard to get the right balance of keywords/meta tags in my Web pages, and this goes to prove that search engine marketing is a strategy that can work