Category: Search Engine Industry News

Mihai Aperghis, an SEO Specialist from Romania, attended the Google Dance in Zurich and has shared with us his recap of the event. Mihai is super active in the SEO community and it is an honor to have him contribute here.

I wanted to personally thank everyone who helped contribute to the How Has Matt Cutts Helped You site over the past several months. It has curated over 150 stories from all sorts of backgrounds, all around the world – about how Matt Cutts made a diffe…

Martin MacDonald, an SEO who has been in the community for 15 or so years, posted an excellent video that is worth watching. It discusses the negativity around our search industry and why we should just be nicer to each other.

For the past 113 days, over 16 weeks, there has been a story posted each day at mattcutts.org about how he has helped an individual person. This is your reminder, if you missed the first announcement, that we have about two weeks left of stories and y…

The SEO industry is mourning the loss of yet another well loved personality in our industry – Michael Streko. He passed away over the weekend at an age way too young. He has left behind a son and an industry that loved him.

Jef Van Gool from Sherlock SEO has started the process of designing a Monopoly game for the SEO community named SEOPOLY. In fact, he is asking the community to help come up with Community Chest & Chance card quotes on Twitter.

Yesterday the search community got the gut wrenching news that Jordan Kasteler has passed away. Everyone was floored, shocked, saddened, and deeply upset by the news. Jordan Kasteler has been part of our industry since he was a kid…

As many of you saw, Stone Temple Consulting was acquired by the publicly traded company Perficient – here is the press release.

Eric Enge and his wife own the company, but most of you just know Eric…

Rand Fishkin who ran Moz said on Twitter that back in the day, Matt Cutts (formerly of Google) “tried to get Mozcon not to invite black/gray hats to speak…

I am incredibly sad to report that the beloved Bill Atchison, known in the SEO community as IncrediBILL, has passed away. He has been sick for some time now and has now moved on…

As I covered at Search Engine Land, we got big industry news, the company Larry Kim founded in 2007 named WordStream has been acquired for $150 million. WordStream is a software service that helps digital marketers manage their Google AdWords campaign…

No one can argue that Matt Cutts has been one of the most significant personalities in our industry. Not just because of how he balanced the Google vs SEO line. Not just because of how he was able to provide more transparency about Google’s efforts ove…

Matt Cutts posted on his personal blog some terrible personal news that explained his wife passed away this week. Matt never mentioned his wife by name…

We knew this day was coming, he announced he was leaving the company he founded with his mother and that day has come. He posted about it last night on his new company blog…

Jill Sampey has passed away on Saturday, February 17th. It comes to a shock to everyone who knows her. She was the most smiley…

I am sad to report that Gerald Weber, aka Gman, an SEO many of you know, has passed away suddenly on Friday, October 27, 2017. He was incredibly young, only 44 years old…

As time goes on, it is inevitable that we lose important people in the search industry – that is life. But too often we are too late to express our gratitude to those people during their living years…

Before there was a term called link building, heck, before there was “SEO” – Eric Ward was doing link building. There was a reason he was referred to as Link Moses…

While I was offline, my search mentor, Danny Sullivan announced he has accepted a job offer to work at Google. I’ll be 100% honest, I did not see that coming, in fact…

With all my focus around the negative news (which I tend to focus on a lot) with Danny leaving and Matt McGee leaving Search Engine Land as well – the amazing news around the new leaders of Search Engine Land have somewhat got brushed under the rug…
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