SEO is an always updating and evolving field. In order to be a professional SEO
expert, consultant, or strategist you first need to know who are the current Top
SEO enthusiasts. You need to know their companies, success stories, best
practices, and follow their activities. Each one of them excels in a specific
area. Hence, following them and their news will give you an insight of how they
build their knowledge, what kind of updates they are introduced to, what
techniques they are testing, and many other ideas.
But of course you will need to have
your own character and your own techniques. That, you will reach eventually
when you master what they do and have reached.
Neil Patel is the co-founder of 2 Internet companies: Crazy
Egg and KISSmetrics. Through his
entrepreneurial career he has helped large corporations such as Amazon, AOL,
GM, HP and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was
he named one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street
Journal, but he was also named one of the top entrepreneurs in the nation by
Entrepreneur Magazine. He has also been recognized as a top 100 entrepreneur
under the age of 30 by President Obama. Neil has also received Congressional
Recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives for his work in the
nonprofit sector.
Matt Siltala is an online search industry leader and
President of Avalaunch Media, a content marketing company
specializing in infographic
marketing. Matt’s clients have included companies like Webtrends,
Ancestry.com, The Home Depot, and ESRB.
Because of Matt’s passion for the
online industry and all things IT, he loves collaborating with other industry
leaders and speaking at search conferences like Pubcon, SMX, and Search Engine
Strategies, and at other events and Universities across the country.
Before forming Avalaunch Media,
Matt co-founded Dream Systems Media in 2005, and has started several highly
successful e-commerce businesses beginning in 1998.
When Matt isn’t launching a new
company or helping build value for his client’s, he enjoys traveling with his
beautiful wife and 3 kids.
John Doherty is the Director of Distilled NYC, a search marketing consulting
firm in Manhattan, with offices in London and Seattle as well. His writing can
be found on his personal marketing website, SEOmoz, Distilled, and recentlySingleGeared. In his free
time he is a Brooklynite, where he also rock climbs. His other passions include
skiing, traveling, and photography.
Paul May is the CEO and co-founder of BuzzStream.
Paul is a serial entrepreneur, having spent his career starting and working on
early stage startups
Prior to BuzzStream, he was a
Principal at Orr Ventures, a seed venture fund, where he was brought in to
serve as VP of Marketing for WaveBender. Paul has held senior roles in product,
marketing, and business development at a number of successful companies,
including SupportSoft, AlterPoint and BMC Software.
Jon Cooper
is a link builder who blogs over at Point
Blank SEO, a community & blog dedicated solely to the art of
acquiring links. You can follow him on Twitter @PointBlankSEO and you can
check out his link building course for beginners
& experts.
Ash Buckles is the President of SEO.com. Under the
direction of Ash, SEO.com has been ranked #1 search marketing agency in three
consecutive reports by Website Magazine, most recently in February 2012. The
Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum also selected SEO.com as one of the Top 25
Fastest Growing companies in Utah.
Paddy is an SEO Consultant working for Distilled in the London office. He has helped
manage a number of SEO campaigns for companies around the world and is
currently living in Queenstown, New Zealand where he is on sabbatical and
writing his link building book.
Garrett French is the CEO of Citation Labs,
an agency where he connects businesses with the niche publishers that influence
their target markets. Through his process he builds brand trust, buzz,
relationships and links that drive targeted, algo-proof referral traffic to his
clients websites.
Ross
Hudgens is the founder of Siege Media, a digital
marketing consultancy. He frequently writes about SEO and link building on his
personal blog, and can also be found frequently speaking across the country on
the same topics.
Below
are the top 20 SEO influencers to follow on Google Plus:
- Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz
- Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand
- Search Engine Land G+ page
- Dev Basu of Powered by Search
- Matt McGee of SearchEngineLand
- Andrew Shotland of Local SEO Guide
- Matt Cutts of Google
- Mike Blumenthal of Blumenthals
- Carter Maslan of Google Local / Places
- John Heard of SearchEngineNews.com and Beyond Engineering
- David Mihm of Get Listed
- Andy Beal of Trackur
- Bryson Meunier of Resolution Media
- Lee Odden of TopRank Marketing
- Dean Bairaktaris of TheDudeDean
- William Slawski of SEO by the Sea
- Ann Smarty of SEOSmarty.com
- Jill Whalen of High Rankings
- Travis Wright of Advangel Interactive & MobileLocalSocial
- Greg Sterling of Screenwerk and SearchEngineLand
