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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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.
Travis Fairchild is the Vice President of Publishing for Marchex.
See articles by Travis Fairchild.
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.
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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 , 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.
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.
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.
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 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 is President and a member of the board of directors of Marchex. See articles by John Keister.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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 , 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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
Danielle Sohn is a Search Marketing Specialist at iProspect where she is responsible for the SEM performance of her clients for both organic and paid search campaigns. See articles by Danielle Sohn.
Tony Soric is an SEM Guru for Clickable. Tony holds a B.S. in Business Management from Georgetown University. See articles by Tony Soric.
Stephan Spencer is founder and president of natural search marketing firm Netconcepts and inventor of the GravityStream SEO proxy technology. He's currently authoring the upcoming O'Reilly book The Art of SEO along with co-authors Rand Fishkin, Jessie Stricchiola, and Eric Enge. See articles by Stephan Spencer.
Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land, and writes a personal blog Screenwerk, examining the broader world of media and advertising. He also posts at a Local Mobile Search, which is focused on the mobile Internet. See articles by Greg Sterling.
Michelle Stern is a Client Services Director at iProspect, responsible for managing the activities of multiple client-facing teams on organic and paid search engagements. She leads overall campaign strategy including the integration of search efforts and other client marketing initiatives. The Strictly Business column appears Wednesdays at Search Engine Land. See articles by Michelle Stern.
David Szetela is a contributing writer to Search Engine Land, and Founder and CEO of Clix Marketing, a firm that creates and manages paid search advertising campaigns on services like Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, Microsoft adCenter and others.
See articles by David Szetela.
Arpana Tiwari is the Corporate SEO Manager at Become, Inc., a leading comparison shopping site and is responsible for planning and executing SEO strategies for all Become properties. Prior to joining Become.com, Arpana was Search Operations Manager at iProspect. See articles by Arpana Tiwari.
Bas van den Beld is a web/search consultant and the (part-)owner and Chief Editor of Searchcowboys.com, one of the leading websites on search marketing subjects in Europe. As Chief Editor he is responsible for the content of the website and one of the most active writers. He also posts regularly on his personal blog. See articles by Bas van den Beld.
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 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.
Wister Walcott is a co-founder and the vice president of Products at Marin Software. In this role he directs the development of Marin Search Marketer, a full-workflow paid search analysis and management application for search advertisers and agencies. See articles by Wister Walcott.
Eric Ward has been in the link building and content publicity game since 1994, providing services ranking from linking strategy to a monthly private newsletters on linking for subscribers. See articles by Eric Ward.
Lori Weiman is head of product management and marketing for The Search Monitor. The Search Monitor monitors search results and social media web sites to provide insight to SEM, SEO, and Affiliate agencies regarding competitors, keywords, ad copy, market share, trademark abuse, brand buzz, and affiliate compliance. See articles by Lori Weiman.
Marty Weintraub is president of aimClear; an internet focused Advertising Agency with offices in Minnesota. aimClear provides natural search optimization (SEO), traditional & social pay-per-click (PPC) management, and social media/feed marketing (SMO) services to national clients. See articles by Marty Weintraub.
Andrew Wheeler is managing director of the Chicago office for search engine marketing firmiProspect, and can be reached at a.wheeler@iprospect.com.
See articles by Andrew Wheeler.
Tom Wilde is the CEO of EveryZing, a Cambridge-based company specializing in next-generation Universal Search and video search engine optimization (video SEO). See articles by Tom Wilde.
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.
Brian Yamada is a Client Services Director at iProspect, responsible for overseeing all paid and organic search strategies for the Procter & Gamble (P&G) business unit. He also leads the integration of search efforts and oversees training and development for client services managers and search marketing specialists. See articles by Brian Yamada.
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