Bloggers
The Editorial Team
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Bas van den Beld - Founder | ||
| Bas van den Beld is a speaker, trainer, online marketing strategist and well-respected blogger. Bas is the owner of Stateofsearch.com | |||
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Lisa Myers - co-Founder | ||
| Lisa Myers is co-founder of State of Search with Bas van den Beld. She runs her own SEO & Social Media Agency; Verve Search Ltd, based in London (UK) | |||
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Sam Noble - Editor, Events Manager & Brand Manager | ||
| Samantha Noble is the Digital Marketing Director at Koozai, a Digital Marketing Agency based in Southampton and London. Sam also runs the event section on State of Search. | |||
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Jackie Hole – Editor, Tools Manager | ||
| Jackie Hole, is an SEM strategist, consultant and trainer. She is Co founder of Carnival Creative and owner of 22M. Jackie also runs the tools section on State of Search. | |||
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Barry Adams - Editor, Newsletter | ||
| Barry Adams is the Digital Services Director at Pierce Communications in Belfast, where he leads a team delivering digital services for clients in the UK and Ireland. | |||
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Peter Young - Editor | ||
| Peter has been around the industry for a while now, having previously headed up both search and SEO operations at large companies | |||
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The Blogging Team
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Gemma Birch | ![]() |
Gianluca Fiorelli | |||
| Gemma Birch has been working in international search for 5 years and leads WebCertain’s marketing team. | Gianluca Fiorelli is an SEO and Web Marketing Strategist, who operates in the Italian, Spanish and English speaking countries market. | |||||
| Latest post Key Considerations for International Content Creation | Latest post From Authorship to Authority: Why Claiming Your Identity Matters #smxlondon | |||||
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Ben Holbrook | ![]() |
Carla Marshall | |||
| Ben Holbrook is a passionate search and social practitioner at Verve Search with a particular interest in developing sustainable and creative link building techniques. | Carla Marshall is an SEO consultant and owner of Sorbet Digital which provides SEO, PPC, Video Optimisation and Social Media services. | |||||
| Latest post 7 Things My Girlfriend Taught Me About SEO | Latest post iOS Still Dominates Mobile And Tablet Traffic In UK | |||||
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Paddy Moogan | ![]() |
James Murray | |||
| Paddy Moogan is an SEO Consultant working for Distilled in their London office. He manages campaigns for a number of clients across a range of industries. | James Murray is Digital Insight Manager for Experian Marketing Services. James writes regular reports covering search, social, email and audience profiling. | |||||
| Latest post Is Paying for SEO Tools Worth It? | Latest post Which Retailers are Leveraging the Marketing Potential of Pinterest? | |||||
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Agnete Tøien Pedersen | ![]() |
Marcus Taylor | |||
| Agnete Tøien Pedersen is Head of SEO in iProspect Norway and has years of experience within SEM, SEO, web publishing and journalism. | Marcus Taylor is an award-winning young entrepreneur and online business consultant from Oxford (UK). | |||||
| Latest post The importance of a link clean up before it’s too late | Latest post 7 Pieces of Public Speaking Advice I Learnt From Speaking at TEDx | |||||
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Clarissa Sajbl | ![]() |
Hannah Smith | |||
| Clarissa is a bilingual Strategic Marketing MA graduate with rounded experience in a number of key marketing disciplines. | Hannah Smith is an SEO Consultant working for Distilled in their London office. She manages technical, link building and content campaigns for clients. | |||||
| Latest post Social Media Automation: The Good And Bad #smxlondon | Latest post Breaking out of the SEO Echo Chamber | |||||
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Aleyda Solis | ![]() |
Nichola Stott | |||
| Aleyda Solis is an International SEO Consultant based in Madrid with wide experience in the definition, development and management of SEO. | Nichola is owner and co-founder of The Media Flow; online revenue optimisation and audience services (including SEO, SEM and SMM). | |||||
| Latest post My Mobile SEO Toolbox: Top Tools for Mobile SEO Analysis | Latest post Why Is My Site Not Ranking? | |||||
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Claire Thompson | ![]() |
Jo Turnbull | |||
| Claire Thompson runs Waves PR. She has 15 years PR experience, during which she has worked with big brands like Apple and Hitachi. | Jo Turnbull is a freelance SEO consultant and is the founder of SEO Jo Blogs, which captures many of the updates in the search industry. | |||||
| Latest post Yandex Interview with Ilya Segalovich at #ISS | Latest post 2013 Australian Roadshow – Interview with Columbus Search in Sydney | |||||
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Jeroen van Eck | ![]() |
Louis Venter | |||
| Jeroen van Eck is still a fresh mind in the world of search. Jeroen is specialized in optimizing websites for the upper level of small and medium businesses. | Louis Venter is the founding director and CEO of MediaVision, a Search Engine Marketing (SEM) company specialising in all areas of search. | |||||
| Latest post A few Questions About the New Facebook Search Graph | Latest post Killer Content Remains King, Queen and Ace – #smxlondon | |||||
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Neil Walker | ![]() |
Michel Wester | |||
| Neil started his own consultancy in 2009 of Quaero Media (formerly SEO Mad Ltd) where he works consulting with other Digital Agencies to affiliates or in-house teams. | Michel Wester is the owner of the Dutch website WebSonic.nl, started in 2004. WebSonic mainly focuses on news about Google, Twitter, and Facebook. | |||||
| Latest post I’m Not a Rapper, I just SEO a lot | Latest post St. Patrick’s Day 2013 celebrated with animated Google Doodle | |||||
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Kate Morris | ![]() |
Paul Rogers | |||
| Kate is a well seasoned (experience and breadth of knowledge) online marketer with a passion for teaching others. | Paul Rogers currently is the Head of Digital Marketing for GPMD. | |||||
| Latest post Why Should I Choose You? | Latest post How to spot a bad link – Paul Madden at #BrightonSEO | |||||
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Sarah Bradley | ![]() |
Ned Poulter | |||
| Sarah is Social Media Consultant for the Bedfordshire-based agency, Receptional | Ned is the SEO Manager for Quirk London, a marketing agency for the digitally enabled world. | |||||
| Latest post Social Signals, Schmochal Smignals? | Latest post Google Analytics for Mobile:... | |||||
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Samuel Crocker | ![]() |
Bastian Grimm | |||
| Sam Crocker is an online marketer specialising in SEO. Sam focuses on increasing traffic and conversions for websites whilst always keeping his eye on a company’s bottom line. | Bastian Grimm is founder and CEO of Grimm Digital. He mainly works as online marketing consultant with a strong focus on organic search engine optimization | |||||
| Latest post The Growing (not provided) Problem and Why Google Will Act in 2013 | Latest post Germany & Search: April 2013 Edition | |||||
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Annabel Hodges | ![]() |
Kelvin Newman | |||
| Annabel spends her days tackling large multinational search and social projects. Her passions are multilingual SEO and integrated traffic-driving techniques. | Kelvin Newman Creative Director at SiteVisibility and specialises in achieving natural search results and producing link-worthy online content | |||||
| Latest post A4U revamps and rebrands to PerformanceIN | Latest post Raven pull their Rank Checking feature: a Reaction from other SEO tools | |||||
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Evert Veldhuijzen | ![]() |
Bryant Dunivan | |||
| Evert Veldhuijzen is the founder and owner of Netlead GmbH & Co. KG in Berlin. Evert started working on the Internet in 1992 so is a very experienced online marketer | Bryant Dunivan has been doing search marketing since 1999, he specializes in on-page optimization, social media, and seo copywriting. | |||||
| Latest post SEO Campixx: Conversion on Steroids | Latest post Political SEO – Can it be done? | |||||
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Not blogging at the moment
| Martijn Beijk | Claire Carlile | Sam Murray | Jon Quinton | James Carson |




































