Video: Dixon Jones on building tools for the SEO industry

This man has helped countless people in the SEO industry - he is a true friend.

I had the honor of having Dixon Jones stop by my office and sit down and talk search. Dixon has a rich history in the search space, dating back to the 90s and still one of the most active members in the search community over 20-years later.

Dixon and I spoke about a lot of topics including:

  • The old days of Frontpage website development and doing SEO for those sites.
  • He started his own search marketing agency, Receptional, in the late 90s that is still going strong.
  • He helped grow one of the most popular SEO toolsets, Majestic.
  • Now he is working on a new toolset named InLinks.

We also talked about some of his contributions to the industry, from the old days at WebmasterWorld as a moderator, to being the MC at the Search Awards show, him speaking around the world all the time and so much more.

Here is the video:

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About the Author

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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