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The Editorial Team

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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  • Meet our 2011 Bloggers: The Man himself (Bas van den Beld)
  • Google holds back Organic keyword data in Analytics
  • Off Page Optimisation: Successful Link Development
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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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  • Guess who and win a ticket to SMX London
  • Going Beyond Rankings With Google Analytics
  • Turning Google Analytics into a Webmasters Toolbox – #brightonseo
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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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  • 7 Deadly Overshare Sins & Online Privacy Issues
  • Best Practices & Opportunities to Make the Most of Mobile SEO #ionsearch
  • Link Earning: Marketing Strategies for Earning Your Links #ionsearch
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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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  • Facebook’s IPO: One Year Later
  • What Google’s EU Settlement Means For Search
  • Can SEO Be Made Obsolete?
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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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  • Google Penguin Evolved – Do we need to be concerned?
  • I act on impulse and I go with my instincts – Applying Ramsay logic to SEO
  • Test, learn, refine – Some learnings from a recent industry poll
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    The Blogging Team

     

    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-100 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-100 Kate Morris paul-rogers-100-bw 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-100-bw 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