
In 2013, The iMarketing Café team did an SEO survey that literally grabbed the attention of the SEO community. The objective was to take the pulse of the SEO community at a time when drastic changes were happening in the SEO world.
Are you passionate about social media? Are you someone who keeps tabs on social media trends? Do you strive to learn something new about social media every day? Do you dream of becoming a social media thought leader someday? If yes, then this awesome list of social media experts is for you. They are some of the most sought after social media thought leaders in the world.
Lisa Raehsler is a widely-known SEM/PPC consultant, Speaker and Founder of Big Click Co, an online advertising company and Google adwords certified partner. She has 16+ years of marketing experience in tech, online, interactive advertising. Her areas of expertise include search engine marketing (PPC & SEO), social media advertising, ecommerce, web analytics, website advertising, display advertising strategy including behavioral targeting and onsite merchandising.
Gabriella Sannino is a widely-recognized International SEO consultant. She is the managing partner at Level343, an organic SEO and copywriting company based in San Francisco, California. Gabriella is also the SEO director at Indelible Branding, an Integrated Marketing agency. She has 20+ years of marketing experience and works closely with several agencies as SEO consultant.
They are some of the most sought after social media thought leaders in the world. They are widely-recognized and are greatly influential on social media. We thought it would be fun to test their intelligence ;) and ofcourse, we knew that the views and insights shared by these experts would be useful to our readers.
As most of you know, Jill Whalen has been a voice in the SEO industry for more than 18 years. She started practicing SEO in 1993-94, even before the term ‘SEO’ was around. The 20 year long outstanding career came to an end with the announcement of her decision to quit SEO a few months ago. The news rocked the SEO industry and sparked discussions in various SEO communities.
From a marketer’s point of view, do you know what the most fascinating part of social media is? It is their capacity to make content go viral and reach thousands or even millions within no time. As a marketer, I have always been curious about social media because of three key reasons:
Twitter is one of the few platforms where SEO community remains highly active. You can even find notable SEO celebrities on Twitter (who usually don’t interact with people on other platforms) and interact with them. You can get tips, guidance and opinions from the experts instantly. Overall, Twittering is fun.
Why did we do this survey? As Google tightened the screws on SEOs lately by specifically targeting what used to be one the most important parts of SEO process, i.e. link building, we wanted to take the pulse of the SEO community.
It gives us great pleasure to feature our interview with Grant Simmons, a highly experienced online marketing specialist and director of SEO and Social media at The Search Agency, an integrated online marketing agency.