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Nick Abramovic

Nick Abramovic Nick Abramovic helps singles meet new people at Zoosk - the largest dating application on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and Hi5. Nick also covers affiliate marketing, advanced ppc tactics and other fun stuff at many body theory. See articles by Nick Abramovic.

Glen Allsopp

Glen Allsopp writes on the topic of reputation management for the viperchill blog. The Back To Basics column appears periodically at Search Engine Land. See articles by Glen Allsopp.

Christian Arno

Christian Arno is founder and Managing Director of global translation company Lingo24, localization specialists for the media, marketing and advertising industries. See articles by Christian Arno.

Tim Ash

Tim Ash is the CEO of SiteTuners.com, a landing page optimization firm that offers conversion consulting, full-service guaranteed-improvement tests, and software tools to improve conversion. See articles by Tim Ash.

Jonathan Ashton

Jonathan Ashton is the VP of SEO and Web Analytics for Agency.com a global interactive marketing firm based in New York with offices worldwide. He runs the company's SEO practice which is centered in Chicago. Contact Jonathan and share networks through LinkedIn. The Industrial Strength column appears weekly at Search Engine Land. See articles by Jonathan Ashton.

Andy Atkins-Krüger

Andy Atkins-Krüger is a linguist who has been specializing in international search since 1997 and is the CEO of WebCertain, the multilingual search agency and Editor-in-Chief of the blog Multilingual-Search.com. You can follow him on Twitter here @andyatkinskruge. See articles by Andy Atkins-Krüger.

Adam Audette

Adam Audette is founder and president of AudetteMedia, a search marketing boutique located in Bend, Oregon. You can read his blog at AudetteMedia.com and follow him on Twitter as @audette. See articles by Adam Audette.

David Bailey

David Bailey is Technical Lead, Universal Search at Google. The Just Behave column appears Fridays at Search Engine Land See articles by David Bailey.

Stephen Baker

Stephen Baker is the Chief Revenue Officer of EveryZing, Inc, and has been in the search industry for over a decade, including Vice President of AlltheWeb (now part of Yahoo!), General Manager of FAST (now part of Microsoft), and CEO of Search for Reed Business Information. See articles by Stephen Baker.

Ross Barnes

Ross Barnes is Head of Digital Media at Response One Group. See articles by Ross Barnes.

Lisa Barone

Lisa Barone is the Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media, an Internet marketing company offering online reputation management and various other Internet marketing services. She also writes and sparks riots daily on the company's Internet marketing blog. See articles by Lisa Barone.

Kristen Bender

Kristen Bender is a Client Services Manager at iProspect where she has managed pay-per-click, search engine optimization, paid inclusion, and shopping feed programs for a variety of internet retailer Top 500 clients across multiple industries. See articles by Kristen Bender.

Matthew Berk

Matthew Berk is the Executive Vice President of Product Engineering for Marchex, a leading local search and advertising company that provides innovative online and call-based advertising products and services for local and national advertisers and advertising resellers. See articles by Matthew Berk.

Damien Bianchi

Damien Bianchi is Regional Director of Client Strategy at Global Strategies International, an Enterprise Search Marketing Agency. See articles by Damien Bianchi.

Mark Blanchard

Mark Blanchard is director of knowledge management and innovation for search engine marketing firm iProspect, and can be reached at m.blanchard@iprospect.com. See articles by Mark Blanchard.

Benny Blum

Benny Blum is Director of Analytics & Strategy for eSearchVision, a global search marketing software developer and agency. He leads the eSV Creative and Analytics team and is based in San Francisco. See articles by Benny Blum.

Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal is a student of life, political economy & local search. He posts frequently to his blog, Understanding Google Maps and Local Search. See articles by Mike Blumenthal.

Barbara Boser

Barbara Boser talks about social media on her blog, SEOWife, and does social media marketing for 3DogMedia. See articles by Barbara Boser.

Jessica Bowman

Jessica Bowman is a free agent SEO strategist available for SEO site audits, SEO training and helping in-house SEO programs become a well-oiled machine that cranks out profits. The In House column appears weekly at Search Engine Land. See articles by Jessica Bowman.

Aaron Bradley

Aaron Bradley Aaron Bradley is SEO Manager for online jewelry store Ice.com, and writes on search issues at his blog SEO Skeptic. He has been an in-house SEO since 2005, following ten years as a website designer. See articles by Aaron Bradley.

Jeff Braislin

Jeff Braislin is a Strategic Marketing Manager for Marchex. In this role, Jeff is responsible for identifying market trends and opportunities to launch and position new advertising products and services. His previous experience includes marketing for growth stage businesses. See articles by Jeff Braislin.

Scott Brinker

Scott Brinker is the president and CTO of ion interactive, a leading provider of post-click marketing software and services. He is also a co-editor of the Post-Click Marketing Blog. See articles by Scott Brinker.

Paul Bruemmer

Paul Bruemmer has provided search engine marketing expertise and in-house consulting services to prominent American businesses since 1995. As Director of Search Marketing at Red Door Interactive, he is responsible for the strategic implementation of search engine marketing activities within Red Door's Internet Presence Management (IPM) services. The In House column appears on Wednesdays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Paul Bruemmer.

Sami Carroll

Sami Carroll is an Account Director at SmartSearch Marketing, a Boulder, Colorado-based search engine marketing agency. Sami has extensive experience in comprehensive marketing analysis across all online marketing media, including paid search, affiliate programs, organic optimization and email marketing for both B2C and B2B clients. See articles by Sami Carroll.

Laura Centore

Laura Centore is a client services manager at iProspect and oversees a team of search marketing specialists and analysts responsible for natural search campaigns, paid inclusion, and pay-per click campaigns. See articles by Laura Centore.

Rachel Charlton

Rachel Charlton is Client Services Director at iProspect's San Francisco office, responsible for overseeing the activities of a client-facing search team. The Brand Aid column appears Wednesdays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Rachel Charlton.

Kelsey Childress

Kelsey Childress is a social media and search marketing specialist for BIGSHOT Design Co. in Kansas City, where she helps clients with SMM strategy, SEO and PPC campaign maintenance. She also runs a social media and internet marketing blog called The Social Robot. See articles by Kelsey Childress.

Christine Churchill

Christine Churchill is the President of KeyRelevance.com, a full service Dallas search engine marketing company that specializes in helping businesses succeed online. Christine blogs at SEMClubhouse. See articles by Christine Churchill.

Bruce Clay

Bruce Clay has been a recognized leader in the search marketing arena since 1996 when he launched one of the first consulting firms devoted to search engine optimization (SEO). His pioneering efforts continue to lead the search industry by providing award-winning SEO training and certification courses, the SEO Code of Ethics and the full-featured SEOToolSet®. Bruce is on the Board of Directors of the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO), and is a Principal Editor and speaker for SEMJ.org, a scholarly research journal for search engine marketing. He co-authored Search Engine Optimization All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies. See articles by Bruce Clay.

Chris Crompton

Chris Crompton is a PPC Account Manager with ROI Revolution, which provides PPC audits and paid search management services to small & medium sized businesses. He also writes for the ROI Revolution Blog. See articles by Chris Crompton.

Grant Crowell

Grant Crowell is CEO and Creative Director of Grantastic Designs. The Video Search column appears on Thursdays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Grant Crowell.

Brent Csutoras

Brent Csutoras is an internet marketing consultant, who specializes in social media, viral and search engine marketing. The Let's Get Social column appears weekly at Search Engine Land. See articles by Brent Csutoras.

David Dague

David Dague is vice president of marketing for Localeze, and sets the strategic branding and go-to-market strategies for the organization and oversees its day-to-day tactical marketing initiatives. See articles by David Dague.

Craig Danuloff

Craig Danuloff is founder and president of ClickEquations Inc., which provides the ClickEquations paid search management platform to large search advertisers and agencies. He writes extensively on paid search on the ClickEquations Blog. See articles by Craig Danuloff.

Stoney deGeyter

Stoney deGeyter is CEO of Pole Position Marketing. The Small Is Beautiful column appears on Thursdays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Stoney deGeyter.

Galen DeYoung

Galen DeYoung is Managing Director of Proteus SEO , which specializes exclusively in B2B search engine optimization, and Proteus B2B, which specializes in repositioning business-to-business companies and their brands. You can reach Galen at gdeyoung@proteusb2b.com and follow him on Twitter. See articles by Galen DeYoung.

Bill Dinan

Bill Dinan is president of Telmetrics, a provider of call measurement solutions. Dinan has led Telmetrics' evolution from print-centric tools to multi-media, leads-based measurement solutions and was appointed president in May 2009. He can be reached at bill.dinan@telmetrics.com. See articles by Bill Dinan.

Doug Drees

Doug Drees is a PPC Specialist at SmartSearch Marketing. Over the past several years he has successfully managed large, complex campaigns in many industries including retail, education and technology. See articles by Doug Drees.

Josh Dreller

Josh Dreller is the Vice President of Media Technology for Fuor Digital, an agency concentrated in the research, planning, buying and stewardship of digital media marketing campaigns. Josh can be reached at jdreller@fuor.net. See articles by Josh Dreller.

Mona Elesseily

Mona Elesseily is director of marketing strategy at Page Zero Media, focusing on paid search campaigns and conversion improvement. She's also the author of Page Zero's Mastering Panama: A special report on Yahoo!'s new search marketing platform (August 2007). The Paid Search column appears Mondays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Mona Elesseily.

Eric Enge

Eric Enge is the president of Stone Temple Consulting, an SEO consultancy outside of Boston. Eric is also co-founder of Moving Traffic Inc., the publisher of Custom Search Guide. See articles by Eric Enge.

Steve Espinosa

Steve Espinosa is a Local Search Expert and the world's biggest Chicago White Sox fan. He writes regularly at www.StephenEspinosa.com. He and his dog Carl live in Winchester, CA with his wife Stephanie. The Locals Only column appears on Mondays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Steve Espinosa.

Travis Fairchild

Travis Fairchild is the Vice President of Publishing for Marchex. See articles by Travis Fairchild.

John Federman

John Federman is president and CEO of Searchandise Commerce, the first Online Retail Network for product manufacturers and online retailers. John can be reached at jfederman@searchandise.net. See articles by John Federman.

Dave Feldman

Dave Feldman is director of client services for search engine marketing firm iProspect and can be reached at dave.feldman@iprospect.com. See articles by Dave Feldman.

Michael Ferguson

Michael Ferguson is senior user experience analyst for Ask.com. The Just Behave column appears Fridays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Michael Ferguson.

Greg Finn

Greg Finn is the Director of Internet Marketing for 10e20, a publicity company that specializes in social media and search marketing services. He has been in the Internet marketing industry for over 5 years and specializes in Social Media Marketing.  He writes in-depth about social media and internet marketing on the 10e20 blog See articles by Greg Finn.

Shellie Foriska

Shellie Foriska is an Account Director at Smart Search Marketing, a B2B Search Engine Marketing agency, where she is responsible for managing clients' Search programs integrating organic, paid search, and conversion improvement teams and strategies. See articles by Shellie Foriska.

Duane Forrester

Duane Forrester is an in-house SEM with Microsoft, sits on the Board of Directors with SEMPO, can be found at his blog where he speaks about online marketing and monetizing websites and is the author of How To Make Money With Your Blog. See articles by Duane Forrester.

Vanessa Fox

Vanessa Fox is a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land. Called a “cyberspace visionary” by Seattle Business Monthly, she is an expert in understanding customer acquisition from organic search. She shares her perspective on how this impacts marketing and user experience at ninebyblue.com and provides authoritative search-friendly design patterns for developers at janeandrobot.com. See articles by Vanessa Fox.

Garrett French

Garrett French is co-founder of Ontolo, a link building agency and co-author of Link-Building-Guide.com, which leads motivated readers through the methods and processes of large-scale, crawler-based link research, link acquisition and linker-targeted content strategy. See articles by Garrett French.

Brad Geddes

Brad Geddes is the Founder of bgTheory, a company dedicated to PPC education & training; a regular blogger, twitterer, presenter for AdWords Seminars, and a frequent conference speaker. The Paid Search column appears weekly at Search Engine Land. See articles by Brad Geddes.

Kevin Gibbons

Kevin Gibbons is founder and Director of Search at UK search marketing agency SEOptimise. Kevin also frequently blogs at SEOptimise and Econsultancy, contributes at Sphinn and can be followed on Twitter under the username kevgibbo. See articles by Kevin Gibbons.

Kelly Gillease

Kelly Gillease is the Marketing Director at Viator,the leading provider of destination activities worldwide, and also blogs on in-house search engine marketing issues at inhousesem.com. See articles by Kelly Gillease.

Chad Godfrey

Chad Godfrey is a Search Marketing Specialist at iProspect. He is responsible for natural search campaigns, pay-per click campaigns, paid inclusion, shopping feeds, and social media initiatives for clients across multiple industries. See articles by Chad Godfrey.

Ken Godskind

Ken Godskind is the Chief Strategy Officer at AlertSite, a provider of website performance management solutions, and the chief blogger at http://blog.alertsite.com. See articles by Ken Godskind.

Adam Goldberg

Adam Goldberg is the Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at ClearSaleing, Inc., a technology provider of advertising analytics. Adam found ClearSaleing after working at Google for 3 years, where he started their Inside Sales organization. See articles by Adam Goldberg.

Gab Goldenberg

Gab Goldenberg also writes his own SEO blog where he discusses advanced SEO tactics and ideas. He loves offering SEO consulting to entrepreneurs. See articles by Gab Goldenberg.

Andrew Goodman

Andrew Goodman is the founder and principal of Page Zero Media and author of Winning Results with Google AdWords. See articles by Andrew Goodman.

Ben Gott

Ben Gott is head of product development at UK pay per click specialists Periscopix. When not managing client PPC campaigns or analysing website performance, Ben writes about and runs training courses on Google Analytics. See articles by Ben Gott.

Michael Gray

Michael Gray has over 10 years experience in website development and internet marketing. He has helped companies with internal search engine optimization strategies for both ecommerce and informational websites. He publishes controversial industry thoughts and observations on his blog at www.wolf-howl.com See articles by Michael Gray.

Scott Greenberg

Scott Greenberg Marchex’s Senior Vice President of Advertising Services, has an extensive background in online advertising and is responsible for driving Marchex’s direct advertising business. See articles by Scott Greenberg.

Allison Halter

Allison Halter is a Search Marketing Specialist at iProspect. She is responsible for the development and execution of organic search strategies for clients in the B2B, pharmaceutical, retail, and financial industries. She also shares search engine optimization advice in iProspect's monthly newsletter, the Search Marketing Advisor. See articles by Allison Halter.

Andrea Harris

Andrea Harris is a search engine marketing manager at Carfax Vehicle History. See articles by Andrea Harris.

Mary Harste

Mary Harste is a Conversion Improvement Specialist at SmartSearch Marketing, a Boulder, Colorado-based search engine marketing agency. Mary has extensive experience in landing page design, conversion improvement, and usability analysis for both B2C and B2B clients. See articles by Mary Harste.

Simon Heseltine

Simon Heseltine is the Director of Search at Serengeti Communications a McLean, Virginia based digital marketing agency, runs the Virginia Search Marketing Meetup group and writes for Endless Plain. See articles by Simon Heseltine.

Bob Heyman

Bob Heyman is the Chief Search Officer at Mediasmith in San Francisco, and co-author of Digital Engagement, published by The American Management Association. Bob coined the terms "Audience Development" for building traffic to websites and "Search Engine Optimization" (SEO). See articles by Bob Heyman.

Stephanie Hobbs

Stephanie Hobbs , an award-winning print and online Yellow Pages executive with broad domestic and international experience, is the Yellow Pages Association (YPA) vice president of communications. She also directs the association's Local Search Guide, a who's who of Local Search players and perspectives, as well as blogs about the industry on the InsideYP blog. See articles by Stephanie Hobbs.

Jonathan Hochman

Jonathan Hochman has two computer science degrees from Yale. He is a principal of Hochman Consultants, an Internet marketing firm. See articles by Jonathan Hochman.

Rae Hoffman

Rae Hoffman is the author of the often controversial Sugarrae SEO Blog as well as CEO and managing director of website publisher MFE Interactive and co-founder of Outspoken Media, an Internet marketing company offering SEO consulting and various other internet marketing services. See articles by Rae Hoffman.

Gord Hotchkiss

Gord Hotchkiss is CEO of Enquiro, a search marketing firm that produces search engine user eye tracking studies and other research. See articles by Gord Hotchkiss.

Bill Hunt

Bill Hunt is currently the President of Back Azimuth Consulting and co-author of Search Engine Marketing Inc. His personal blog is whunt.com. See articles by Bill Hunt.

Patricia Hursh

Patricia Hursh is president and founder of SmartSearch Marketing, a Boulder, Colorado-based search engine marketing agency. You can reach Patricia at patricia@smartsearchmarketing.com. The Strictly Business column appears Wednesdays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Patricia Hursh.

David Ingram

David Ingram is co-founder of Brownbook.net, a free directory that anyone can edit. Follow Dave on Twitter: http://twitter.com/daveingram. See articles by David Ingram.

Manoj Jasra

Manoj Jasra is a contributing writer to Search Engine Land, and a Sr. Analyst at Shaw Communications, responsible for SEO, Paid Search & Analytics. Manoj also authors the blog Web Analytics World. See articles by Manoj Jasra. See articles by Manoj Jasra.

Disa Johnson

Disa Johnson is the CEO of SearchReturn. She has over 10 years experience in Search Marketing and Web Services. Widely acknowledged as a top technical search-marketing expert and industry leader, Disa's expertise helped foster the development of the search marketing industry originally at MMG. She has pioneered best practices and methodology since the very first days of Web search. See articles by Disa Johnson.

Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce owns the link development firm Link Fish Media and is one of the founding members of the SEO Chicks blog. See articles by Julie Joyce.

Brian Kaminski

Brian Kaminski is managing director of search engine marketing firm iProspect in San Francisco, and can be reached at b.kaminski@iprospect.com. The Strictly Business column appears Wednesdays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Brian Kaminski.

Jordan Kasteler

Jordan Kasteler (a.k.a. Utah SEO Pro) is a fore-runner in embracing social media and is the co-founder of his own SEO firm, Search & Social. See articles by Jordan Kasteler.

Bruce Keener

Bruce Keener is a retiree who enjoys "tinkering with the web." A business professional for 32 years, Bruce now spends a lot of his free time on his Keener Living blog, and does occasional consulting for former associates. He is particularly interested in understanding the factors determine a successful website. See articles by Bruce Keener.

John Keister

John Keister is President and a member of the board of directors of Marchex. See articles by John Keister.

Susan Kelly

Susan Kelly is an SEO expert at SmartSearch Marketing. She has over seven years of search experience including account leadership, training, strategy and implementation of both organic and PPC programs. Susan has worked with a variety of B2B and B2C clients ranging from pharmaceutical to retail brands. See articles by Susan Kelly.

Brian Klais

Brian Klais is Executive Vice President of Search at Netconcepts, where he heads up the firm's performance-based natural search GravityStream product and service business units. See articles by Brian Klais.

Andy Komack

Andy Komack is the founder and president of KoMarketing Associates, LLC, a B2B search engine marketing firm based in Waltham, MA. You can follow him on Twitter at akomack. See articles by Andy Komack.

Kim Krause Berg

Kim Krause Berg is a Usability Consultant for UsabilityEffect.com and Founder of Cre8asiteForums. Her work combines usability testing with a working knowledge of search engine optimization. See articles by Kim Krause Berg.

Cindy Krum

Cindy Krum is the Senior SEO Analyst for Blue Moon Works, Inc., a provider of marketing and strategy services. See articles by Cindy Krum.

Evan LaPointe

Evan LaPointe is the Director of Client Performance at Search Discovery, an Atlanta-based search marketing and web analytics agency. Evan is a fierce believer in the power of web analytics and the impact it can have on the performance (and lovability) of web sites. Evan also writes a web analytics blog called Atlanta Analytics and can be found as @evanlapointe on twitter. See articles by Evan LaPointe.

Hanan Lifshitz

Hanan Lifshitz is CEO at Palore, a provider of local businesses' advertising data and information on their online activity. He also blogs at The Palore Blog. This column is researched and written by the marketing department at Palore, which is led by Hanan. See articles by Hanan Lifshitz.

Chris Linnett

Chris Linnett is director of Open List for Marchex, where he blogs regularly about all things local at LocalPoint, in addition to his regular column for Search Engine Land. The Locals Only column appears on Mondays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Chris Linnett.

Joanna Lord

Joanna Lord is the Co-Founder & CMO of TheOnlineBeat.com, a comparative job search engine which focuses on helping job searchers use online tools and applications to land the job of their dreams. See articles by Joanna Lord.

Lance Loveday

Lance Loveday is the CEO of Closed Loop Marketing, a search marketing agency specializing in conversion optimization. He also co-authored the best-selling book, Web Design for ROI. See articles by Lance Loveday.

Joe Lovett

Joe Lovett is a Client Services Director at iProspect, responsible for managing the activities of several client-facing teams. He focuses his attention on the overall execution of client campaigns, and excels at utilizing data analysis to drive creative business solutions. See articles by Joe Lovett.

Marc Lyne

Marc Lyne is co-founder of Brownbook.net, a free directory that anyone can edit. Follow Marc on Twitter: http://twitter.com/marc_lyne. See articles by Marc Lyne.

Tim Magoon

Tim Magoon is a Client Services Manager at iProspect. He oversees the activities of Search Marketing Specialists and Search Marketing Analysts responsible for natural search campaigns, paid inclusion, shopping feeds, and pay-per click campaigns. See articles by Tim Magoon.

Michael Martin

Michael Martin is the SEO Director of Project Management at Internet Marketing Inc. based out of San Diego, California. See articles by Michael Martin.

Debra Mastaler

Debra Mastaler offers link training and custom link building campaigns through her Williamsburg Virginia based firm Alliance-Link. She is also the author of the link building blog The Link Spiel. See articles by Debra Mastaler.

Sean McCarthy

Sean McCarthy is a Client Services Manager at iProspect. He oversees the activities of Search Marketing Specialists and Search Marketing Analysts responsible for natural search campaigns, paid inclusion, shopping feeds and pay-per click campaigns. See articles by Sean McCarthy.

Shannon McCarty

Shannon McCarty Shannon McCarty is a Client Services Manager at iProspect. She oversees the activities of Search Marketing Specialists and Search Marketing Analysts responsible for organic search campaigns, pay-per click campaigns, paid inclusion, and shopping feeds. See articles by Shannon McCarty.

Matt McGee

Matt McGee is the Search Engine Land Assignment Editor, and offers search marketing consulting and training to businesses of all sizes. He blogs at Small Business Search Marketing and HyperlocalBlogger.com. See articles by Matt McGee.

Bryson Meunier

Bryson Meunier is an Associate Director of SEO at Resolution Media and the primary architect of their natural search product. He writes regularly on advanced SEO topics at his Natural Search and Mobile SEO Blog. See articles by Bryson Meunier.

George Michie

George Michie is co-founder and principal of the Rimm-Kaufman Group, a a paid search marketing firm founded in 2003. He regularly writes for the Paid Search column here on Search Engine Land. See articles by George Michie.

David Mihm

David Mihm is a Portland, OR Web Designer and a noted authority on Local SEO. He writes frequently about Local SEO topics at his blog, Mihmorandum. The Small Is Beautiful column appears on Thursdays at Search Engine Land. See articles by David Mihm.

Jon Miller

Jon Miller is VP of Marketing for Marketo, a provider of affordable, easy-to use-marketing automation software that helps B2B marketing professionals drive revenue and improve accountability. Jon's blog, Modern B2B Marketing, explores best practices in business marketing, ranging from pay-per-click management to lead nurturing to marketing accountability. The Strictly Business column appears Wednesdays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Jon Miller.

Bill Muller

Bill Muller is Chief Marketing Officer at iProspect. He is responsible for creating the strategy and overseeing the implementation of all marketing, public relations and sales support initiatives for the company. Bill has nearly 30 years of marketing management experience, including: online, database and event marketing; field sales support; and lead generation. He joined iProspect in 2002. See articles by Bill Muller.

Bill Mungovan

Bill Mungovan is currently the director of product marketing at Omniture responsible for their SearchCenter product. Previously, he helped build the search engine marketing practice at Carat, working directly with agency clients in exceeding their ROI and branding goals through search. See articles by Bill Mungovan.

Robert J. Murray

Robert J. Murray is president of search engine marketing firm iProspect and can be reached at rob.murray@iprospect.com. The Strictly Business column appears Wednesdays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Robert J. Murray.

Sandra Niehaus

Sandra Niehaus is VP UX of Closed Loop Marketing, and co-author of the book Web Design for ROI. See articles by Sandra Niehaus.

Ciarán Norris

Ciarán Norris heads up Mindshare SocialMedia8, the new joint venture between global media agency Mindshare & social media specialists SocialMedia8. At Mindshare, he works with Nike and other global brands, helping them to make the most of social media & to put it at the heart of their marketing mix. See articles by Ciarán Norris.

Debra Northart

Debra Northart is a founding employee and Director of Media Operations for WebVisible. Dr. Northart’s experience spans nearly a decade of key management and implementation for large scale local online marketing initiatives. See articles by Debra Northart.

Neg Norton

Neg Norton is President of the Yellow Pages Association (YPA), a trade association that advocates on behalf of a print and electronic Yellow Pages industry. See articles by Neg Norton.

Virginia Nussey

Virginia Nussey is a media writer at Bruce Clay, Inc. She is the primary author of the company's search marketing blog and a host of the weekly podcast SEM Synergy. See articles by Virginia Nussey.

Ed O'Keefe

Ed O'Keefe is Vice President, Product Strategy and Management at Marchex, a local search and advertising company. See articles by Ed O'Keefe.

Gib Olander

Gib Olander , in his role as director of business development, has helped Localeze become the largest online content manager, serving local search engines, businesses and ready-to-buy to consumers. See articles by Gib Olander.

Cameron Olthuis

Cameron Olthuis is the Founder and CEO of Factive Media. The Let's Get Social column appears Tuesdays at Search Engine Land See articles by Cameron Olthuis.

Elisabeth Osmeloski

Elisabeth Osmeloski As managing editor of Search Engine Land, Elisabeth oversees the site’s logistics and performance, as well as posting updates from the travel search industry, reporting user search trends and online shopping news. She also runs her own blog covering the travel vertical and search marketing for luxury and lifestyle brands at AdventuresinSearch.com. See articles by Elisabeth Osmeloski.

Eric Papczun

Eric Papczun specializes in increasing visibility and traffic to large retail, publisher, lead generation, and financial Web sites as the Vice President of Client Services for Performics. See articles by Eric Papczun.

Heather Pidgeon

Heather Pidgeon is a Client Services Director at iProspect, responsible for strategic development and overall execution of campaigns as well as client satisfaction. She directly manages three Client Services Managers whose teams are responsible for the execution of all aspects of client campaigns, including organic search, pay per click advertising, paid inclusion programs, and online display campaigns. See articles by Heather Pidgeon.

Glenn Pingul

Glenn Pingul is VP of marketing for Mixpo, an online video advertising company dedicated to small- and medium-sized businesses. The Small Is Beautiful column appears on Thursdays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Glenn Pingul.

Alex Porter

Alex Porter is vice president of Location3 Media, a Denver-based technology driven direct marketing company that delivers internet marketing solutions for businesses targeting consumers on local to global scales. See articles by Alex Porter.

Alan Rimm-Kaufman

Alan Rimm-Kaufman leads the Rimm-Kaufman Group, a direct marketing services and consulting firm founded in 2003. The Paid Search column appears Mondays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Alan Rimm-Kaufman.

Rich Rosen

Rich Rosen , CEO and founder of Los Angeles-based FastCall411, focuses on the intersection of Voice 2.0 and mobile local search. See articles by Rich Rosen.

David Roth

David Roth is Director of Search Engine Marketing for Yahoo!, Inc.. The Industrial Strength column appears Mondays at Search Engine Land. See articles by David Roth.

Shaun Ryan

Shaun Ryan is Chief Executive Officer of SLI Systems and posts regular insights on site search trends to SLI's blog. See articles by Shaun Ryan.

Muhammad Saleem

Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. You can follow him on Twitter to receive all the latest in social media, straight from the horse's mouth. The Let's Get Social column appears Tuesdays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Muhammad Saleem.

Khalid Saleh

Khalid Saleh is the president of Invesp, a conversion rate optimization company. He is also runs Landing Page Optimization.Org Khalid writes regularly at the Invesp Blog on topics such as landing page optimization, e-commerce conversion optimization, A/B and multivariate testing. See articles by Khalid Saleh.

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here. See articles by Barry Schwartz.

Siddharth Shah

Siddharth Shah is Director of Business Analytics at Efficient Frontier, working on several large accounts. He is responsible for the day-to-day analysis as well as the short and long term strategies for more than $5 million in ad spend per month. See articles by Siddharth Shah.

Niraj Shah

Niraj Shah is a product manager at Marin Software in San Francisco, CA. See articles by Niraj Shah.

Chris Sherman

Chris Sherman is Executive Editor of SearchEngineLand.com and President of Searchwise LLC, a Boulder Colorado based Web consulting firm. He also programs and co-chairs the Search Marketing Expo - SMX conference series. See articles by Chris Sherman.

Andrew Shotland

Andrew Shotland is the proprietor of Local SEO Guide, a local search engine optimization consulting company specializing in yellow pages seo and local directory search—the blog is pretty fabulous too. See articles by Andrew Shotland.

Julie Shumaker

Julie Shumaker is an Independent SEO Consultant at Search Impressions Consulting, a Pittsburgh-based search marketing consultancy. Julie has over nine years of experience in comprehensive marketing management with expertise in pharmaceutical and B2B marketing initiatives See articles by Julie Shumaker.

Larry Small

Larry Small brings nearly three decades of Yellow Pages and local search experience, as Director of Research for the Yellow Pages Association (YPA). Larry spearheads and advises on all association-driven research activities for the industry, as well as blogs about the industry on the InsideYP blog. See articles by Larry Small.

Scott Smigler

Scott Smigler is one of the first visionaries to specialize in online retail marketing and has dedicated over half his life to the study and practice of converting online shoppers into loyal buyers. See articles by Scott Smigler.

Chris Silver Smith

Chris Silver Smith writes for the the Locals Only column at Search Engine Land. Chris "Silver" Smith is director of optimization strategies for KeyRelevance. See articles by Chris Silver Smith.

Danielle Sohn

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Bas van den Beld

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Matt Van Wagner

Matt Van Wagner is President and founder of Find Me Faster a search engine marketing firm based in Nashua, NH. He is a member of SEMNE (Search Engine Marketing New England), and SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization as a member and contributing courseware developer for the SEMPO Institute. Matt writes occasionally on internet, search engines and technology topics for IMedia, The NH Business Review and other publications. See articles by Matt Van Wagner.

Adam Viener

Adam Viener is a serial internet entrepreneur. In 1993, he founded Cyberia, one of the first commercial internet service providers (ISPs), which he sold in 1998 and is now part of EarthLink. Most recently, Adam founded imwave, inc, a leading performance search engine marketing agency, who builds, launches, and funds large scale pay-per-click search engine marketing campaigns for clients to pay imwave based on the number of sales and leads generated. See articles by Adam Viener.

Daniel Waisberg

Daniel Waisberg is the Head of Web Analytics at easynet search marketing and the Chair of Marketing at the Web Analytics Association. You can follow him on Twitter @danielwaisberg. See articles by Daniel Waisberg.

Wister Walcott

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Aaron Wall

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Eric Ward

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Lori Weiman

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Marty Weintraub

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Jill Whalen

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Andrew Wheeler

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Chris Wine

Chris Wine is Director, Product Marketing for Marin Software, responsible for driving market positioning and strategy. You can contact Chris at cwine@marinsoftware.com. See articles by Chris Wine.

Chris Winfield

Chris Winfield is the President and Co-Founder of 10e20, an Internet marketing company that specializes in social media and search marketing services. He is considered one of the leading authorities on social media marketing in the world today. See articles by Chris Winfield.

Tony Wright

Tony Wright is CEO and Founder of WrightIMC has spent his career helping businesses of all sizes be profitable on the Web. He serves as President of the Dallas/Ft. Worth Search Marketing Association. His blog is at www.shavingoccam.com. The Industrial Strength column appears Mondays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Tony Wright.

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