You are walking around the Internet flabbergasted at the amount of information, then suddenly you find a search engine what’s that?, you type in help, and like magic websites appear the smell of success is overwhelming, but then you start wondering who controls what websites shows up first? Is it the search engines or the owners of those websites? Research shows that these top ten leaders in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) control 80% of the sites that show up on top of SERPS (Search Engine Result Page). Yes I just made that statistic up but the truth is if any of these top ten SEO leaders decided to overtake a certain serp it will happen.
These movers and shakers were handpicked by me, Didier Bizimungu, through extensive research and analysis. These few selected individuals are the oil that helps the SEO industry engine run. Picked according to influence and the amount of time they’ve sacrificed in the industry. Without further a due I present to you the top ten leaders of the SEO world:
1. Daron Babin
Daron Babin, also know as SEguru, is the owner of the famous Webmaster Radio and one of the starting original SEO founders. The founder and CEO of one of the World renowned SEO companies, Absolute Marketing International, he truly deserves this spot. A famous incident is the argument he had with V7N’s John Scott.
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2. Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts is the leader of Google’s Webspam team who started as a software engineer. Working at Google especially as their main spam manager gives him a considerable amount of knowledge about SEO. He even has his own custom title “cutlets”. He knows if any updates happens at Google SERPs wise and has a considerable amount of regular readers, well really everyone in the SEO industry.
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3. Rand Fishkin
Rand Fishkin is undoubtedly the second most influential SEO leader. He owns one of the leading SEO firms out there called SEOmoz. Bill Slawski emailed me saying this about SEOmoz “SEOmoz really has only been around about a couple of years, which makes SEOmoz’s rise to prominence all that more remarkable.”
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4. Jim Boykin
Jim Boykin is the CEO of We Build Pages a well know SEO firm. He also posts his expertise through his Internet Marketing Blog, which has made him famous in the SEO industry as a go to guy especially when it comes to link building.
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5. Aaron Wall
Aaron Wall is the owner of the famous SEO Book. Though many know him by his website at search marketing. A proclaimed white hat SEO his book is just about the only decent SEO book out there. Made famous by a lawsuit from a company that obviously didn’t know what it wanted, he jumped on that 15 seconds of fame to turn into a SEO leader.
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6. Danny Sullivan
Danny Sullivan likes to remain in the background but he is anything but unimportant the starter of Search Engine Strategies, a multi-webmaster event where up to 2,000 people show up annually, and the founder of Search Engine Watch. He also has a SEO consulting company called Calfia Consulting, not to mention the owner and founder of the new Search Engine Land.
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7. Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick Inc. and the owner of the Search Engine Roundtable blog. Moderator at Search Engine Watch Forums and Cre8asite Forums and a few others, he’s considered one of the best sources when it comes to SEO. He is famous for proposing to his wife via ask.com and being the first ever wedding proposal on a search engine. Heads up though don’t confuse him with Barry Schawartz the physiologist.
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8. Bill Slawski
Bill Slawski is the owner of SEO by the Sea Inc. one of the leading SEO firms. His SEO by the Sea blog is a continuing source of information for SEO experts because of the way he digs into the subject not to mention his simple and honest approach to SEO.
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9. Todd Malicoat
Todd Malicoat, also know as Stuntdubl, is the founder and CEO of a SEO consulting company called Met4Creations. A veteran SEO consultant Todd maintains the famous Mr. Ploppy tool list which is a list of just about every SEO tool out there. He also works at Jim Boykin’s We Build Pages.
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10. Andy Beal
Andy Beal is is founder of Fortune Interactive a company known for it’s search engine marketing. Founder and owner of the Marketing Pilgrim blog he covers mostly marketing but with a dash of SEO every now and then. Known to have worked with such companies such as Motorola, CitiFinancial, Lowes, Quicken Loans, DeWALT, NBC and Smarter.com.
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There you have it folks six hours of hard sweat busting work all compiled into the best top ten leaders of the SEO world. Oh, by the way the why you need to know them part well that’s up to you do you want to make in the SEO world or just always had a dream to work at McDonald? Disagree with my list? Got any questions or just something to say? Drop a comment.
Special thanks to Bill Slawski at SEO by the Sea, Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim, and Todd Malicoat at Stuntdbl for helping correct some mistakes.
And as always thank you for reading seo news blog.
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