Brett Tabke is an American programmer and SEO professional. He is the founder of WebmasterWorld, an online search engine and internet marketing forum. Tabke started working with computers at a young age, developing software for Commodore home computers. He then worked for companies like Epyx and Berkeley Softworks (later renamed to GeoWorks, and makers of the GEOS operating system). In 1984 Tabke started his first BBS using a 300 baud modem on a dialup line.

Barry Schwartz (born 1980) is well known blogger and reporter who writes about search engines and search engine marketing. As of January 2007, Schwartz is the editor of Search Engine Roundtable, a popular online news site covering the search engines and search engine marketing. He also is the CEO of RustyBrick, Inc., a New York based web development company, and a news editor at Search Engine Land, a search engine news site founded by Danny Sullivan (technologist).

Todd Friesen Director of Search Engine Optimization Range Online Media Todd Friesen has been designing and optimizing websites since 1998, a.k.a. "the early days" of SEO. He is a regular contributor at webmasterworld.com and OMMA Magazine and is an internationally-known speaker and expert on the topic of SEO. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calgary.

Andrew Gerhart joined Automotive.com, the automotive lead generation business serving new car buyers, as the Director of SEO in 2003. In his new role as Director of SEO for Primedia Automotive, Andrew is responsible for coordinating all of the SEO efforts and maximizing search engine exposure across all web properties, including MotorTrend.com, AutomobileMag.com, Automotive.com, HotRod.com, and many more.

Brad Geddes is the Director of Search Engine Marketing for LocalLaunch.com. His responsibilities include overseeing the internal marketing for LocalLaunch, handling premium client accounts, and overseeing the pay per call, pay per click, and online advertising departments. He also serves as a co-moderator in the AdWords forum for WebmasterWorld.com. Before coming to LocalLaunch, Brad provided PPC, usability, and SEO consulting services to companies and marketing agencies.

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Bryan Gmyrek is a freelance programmer, webmaster and physics Ph.D. student who started writing web pages in 1997. When he is not analyzing top quark physics data he designs and programs dynamic web applications and databases. He codes in PHP, Perl and C/C++ on open source platforms such as Apache, Linux and MySQL. Since 2001 he has been building and promoting search engine friendly e-commerce sites with hundreds of thousands of products on a co-located Linux server.

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Kyle Widner is the Owner of Tivoli USA, the largest independent Home & Garden retailer on the internet. Kyle founded his original home and garden import company in 1996 as a predominantly brick and mortar business. He registered his first domain in 1996. When orders on his single internet page began to grow, he saw the opportunity and decided it was time to investigate the Web’s potential.

James works for Microsoft on developing the go to market communication strategies for Microsoft adCenter. James' core responsibilities are in the positioning and messaging of adCenter and taking its key values and benefits to the market. Before working at Microsoft, James worked for a boutique search engine marketing firm called Inceptor who operates out of the UK and US. At Inceptor James was responsible for search strategies for both pre sales and post sale customers.

Specializing in enterprise level search engine optimization (SEO) for large scale and global web properties, Joseph consults with many companies on their search engine optimization and marketing campaigns (SEO/SEM) including Austin Ventures, Autobytel, Inc., Azure Capital, Business.com, Dentist.net, Education.com, Enterprise Rent a Car, Local.com, MGM Mirage, UsedCars.com and World Publications. He previously worked as the in-house Strategic Marketing Director for Autobytel, Inc., the . . .

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