1. Danny Sullivan

    Danny wrote Yahoo Surveys Search Rewards Idea where he covers a News.com article showing how a group of Yahoo! Mail users were offered "10 different potential reward options" to take a Yahoo! search survey. Kinda funny, I told them they should do this at last years SES San Jose conference - that they don't have to necessarily pay money to get answers. I am sure it wasn't my influence, since it did take almost a year to implement.

  2. Bruce Clay

    Bruce Clay is a professional search engine optimization consultant. He was interviewed by Wired Magazine in their 2004 feature "The Complete Guide to Googlemania!" and cited by USA Today in their article "Gunning for search engines" from August 20 2003. His website is referenced to by NARA - ALIC - User's Guide to the Internet at The National Archives as resource for "Web Site Promotion Tactics and Tools".

  3. Rand Fishkin

    Mr. Fishkin is the founder and CEO of SEOmoz, a Seattle-based company that serves as a hub and resource for search marketers worldwide. He also runs the popular SEOmoz search marketing blog. Mr. Fishkin has been featured in Newsweek , quoted in The Washington Post, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal Online and numerous other publications.

  4. Aaron Wall

    Aaron Wall (born 1979) is a writer and search engine optimization expert. He is a frequent speaker at the Search Engine Strategies, and PubCon conferences. In 2005 Wall was sued by Traffic Power for defamation and publication of trade secrets.

  5. Jim Hedger

    Jim Hedger is a well-published journalist, covering search engines and SEO. He is currently employed as the Senior Editor of SiteProNews.com and hosts a weekly show with Dave Davies on Webmaster Radio called "The Alternatives". Jim began his career in SEO with Victoria, BC-based StepForth Search Engine Placement in 2000. He left StepForth in 2006 and started his own consulting firm Markland Media.

  6. Dan Thies

    Dan Thies is founder and President of SEO Research Labs. He is an authoritative writer, teacher, and speaker on the topic of search engine optimization, and is commonly known as the “Keyword Guru”. Dan is a regular speaker at Search Engine Strategies conferences organized by Danny Sullivan, and is author of the top selling e-book “SEO Fast Start”. His latest book “The Search Engine Marketing Kit” was published by sitepoint.com in 2005.

  7. Kevin Newcomb

    Kevin joined Search Engine Watch in December 2006. He has been covering search marketing, among other digital marketing topics, since August 2004, and has been reporting on web-based businesses since 2000. Before the bubble burst, Kevin was a marketing manager for an online computer reseller, handling copywriting, e-mail marketing, search marketing and running the affiliate program.

  8. Rebecca Lieb

    Rebecca Lieb is vice president of Econsultancy's US operations.

  9. Gord Hotchkiss
  10. Paolo Serra

    Seo Manager at bigmouthmedia big, clever digital marketing - Specialties: Search Online Marketing, Advertising Marketing Online, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Search Engine Marketing, SEM, Specialist, Pay Per Click, Yahoo Search Marketing and Google AdWords and Msn adCenter sponsored ad campaigns, natural web site optimization, Affiliate Programms, Online marketing solutions, search marketing, keyword advertising

  11. Yarden Tadmor