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    Video: Eli Feldblum on the SEO industry maturing through the years

    In this three part series, we go way back into the early days of the SEO industry and walk you through how it matured over the years.

    Eli Feldblum, the SVP of Search Marketing at MWWPR, stopped by my home in the warmer months to catch up on things. We actually went to high school for one year together back in the 90s. Some how, we both ended up in this industry and have stuck with it since.

    In this three part video series, Eli and I chat about the good old days talking a little bit about our high school days, the first Israel SMX conferences, and how he helped co-found and invent early SEO software. We then spoke about how the SEO industry matured over the years, where we shared some disturbing examples of search spam over the years. And finally, in part three, we spoke about what types of websites and content efforts really make a difference and last the time within the Google search results.

    You can learn more about Eli on LinkedIn or follow him on Twitter @feldbum.

    Here are all three videos in order:

    If you’re a search professional interested in appearing on Barry’s vlog, you can fill out this form on Search Engine Roundtable; he’s currently looking to do socially distant, outside interviews in the NY/NJ tri-state area. You can also subscribe to his YouTube channel by clicking here.


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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.

    Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.