John Doherty is a San Francisco based growth marketer. Formerly growth at Trulia Rentals, head of marketing at HotPads, former head and consultant in Distilled NYC. He also ran Destinee Media in Switzerland and worked in-house in online education. He currently runs Getcredo.com full-time.  How would you explain specifically what you do as an SEO? This depends on who I am talking to! For people not in the marketing or tech world, I say that I get people more traffic from Google and other places. To my mom, the same thing. To people in tech, I talk about building brands through great m ..read more

Tim Soulo is a marketing guy at Ahrefs and he runs a cozy little personal blog at BloggerJet.com How would you explain specifically what you do as an SEO? As an SEO, I help in creating one of the best SEO toolsets that the world has to offer. I’m talking about Ahrefs, of course. I’m part of a great team that consists mostly of evil programming geniuses who are able to crawl the web almost as well as Google does. And part of my job here is to come up with all sorts of new features and tool improvements that will help SEOs around the world turn all this data that we collect into something very s ..read more

Jonathan has worked in Sales and Marketing for over 30 years and specialises in bringing traditional marketing and advertising principles and practices to the digital arena. Having worked for many years for Yell Group, provider of Yellow Pages in the UK, he set up Aqueous in 2010. He has an MBA from Henley Management School, has been a Chartered Marketer for the past decade and is a Certified Adwords professional. Jonathan is also a public speaker on SEO and Digital Marketing and regularly lectures and trains on all aspects of Digital Marketing. His specialty is helping businesses identify cle ..read more

Peter Attia is the Director of Content and Search at Modernize and has been in the online marketing world for over a decade. He’s been a founding member of multiple multimillion dollar businesses and has worked closely with multiple Fortune 100 companies. How would you explain specifically what you do as an SEO? To be honest, I haven’t considered myself strictly an SEO for quite some time. In the past several years, it’s been more of an accent to something else I’m working on. For example, I currently manage the content for Modernize.com, and a large part of that is making sure our guided cont ..read more

Carla Dawson is a senior Digital Marketing Consultant and manages a boutique Lead Generation Marketing Agency called Dawson. She has more than 10 years experience in the digital marketing and software development industry. Carla is originally from San Diego, California but lives in Argentina as an Expat. Carla Dawson enjoys working with successful companies like Apex America, ENGworks and start-ups like RapiHogar. How would you explain specifically what you do as an SEO? SEO specialists are a kind of marketer with a focus on search engines. SEO is not just about ranking a website but rather ra ..read more

Alex Ramadan is a Senior SEO Specialist at US Interactive Media. He has worked with a large range of clients, big and small in a number of industries. He is also the developer of a small iOS app called Write365, which gives users creative writing prompts. He occasionally writes on his own site here. How would you explain specifically what you do as an SEO? I usually tell people that I help businesses get more traffic from Google when people are searching for goods, services, or products. It’s kind of vague, but if the person has a business, they’ll be interested. If they don’t, they’ll default ..read more

Simon Penson is the founder and managing director of Zazzle Media, an international content marketing agency based in Peterborough and London. He is one of the most prominent writers and speakers in the digital marketing space, having grown Zazzle into one of the most respected agencies in the UK. How would you specifically explain what you do as an SEO? I’m certainly not an SEO and, in many ways, have never been. My background was in print journalism, and Zazzle was set up to counter the obsession with chasing algorithms. I had learned how powerful content was as the conduit for creating targ ..read more

Adam J Thompson has 10 years of experience in digital marketing and internet business, having owned several online business ventures and worked with clients from a variety of industries across the globe. Adam founded RYP Marketing in 2006 with the goal of providing highly effective online marketing services to small and medium sized companies. Today he plays an active role in running the company, with a special focus on SEO strategy and helping clients increase website conversion rates. Adam specializes in the following areas: – Search Engine Optimization – Conversion Rate Optimization – Web A ..read more

Matthew Edgar is an online marketing analyst at Elementive Marketing Solutions. Since 2001, Matthew has helped hundreds of companies grow through a process of analyzing, optimizing, and improving their websites, search presence, and other marketing efforts. Using a strong analytical framework, Matthew helps clients integrate all aspects of their marketing efforts to better connect with customers and users, resulting in significant business growth. You can connect with Matthew on Twitter at @MatthewEdgarCO. How would you explain specifically what you do as an SEO? To be honest, SEO is only a pa ..read more

Eric Pratum is a digital strategist with a background in analytics, SEO, digital media, and nonprofits. For the last five years, he’s focused specifically on nonprofit fundraising, having launched websites, CRO campaigns, and digital media programs that have generated returns often unseen in this space. Prior to that, Eric managed eCommerce websites, built an online auction system, and engineered a social media analytics program back when social media monitoring was the wild west of the online data space. How would you explain specifically what you do as an SEO? Primarily, I focus on site audi ..read more