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{"id":724,"date":"2009-09-04T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/top-10-influential-people-in-search-engine-and-search-engine-optimization-industry\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T02:02:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T06:02:57","slug":"top-10-influential-people-in-search-engine-and-search-engine-optimization-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/top-10-influential-people-in-search-engine-and-search-engine-optimization-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Influential People In Search Engine And Search Engine Optimization Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.nobrtable br{ display: none}<\/style>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"nobrtable\"><\/p>\n<table valign=\"top\"><\/p>\n<tbody>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td width=\"70%\"><strong><u>Matt Cutts<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td width=\"4%\">\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td width=\"25%\">\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/\">Matt Cutts <\/a>joined Google as a software   engineer in January 2000 and currently he is the head of <strong>Google\u2019s   Web spam team<\/strong>. Before joining Google, he worked on his Ph.D. in computer   graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has done M.S.   from UNC-Chapel Hill, and B.S. degrees in both mathematics and computer science   from the University of Kentucky. He wrote the first version of Safe Search, which   is Google\u2019s family filter, and he has worked on search quality and web spam at   Google for the last several years.<\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-cartoons\/Matt-Cutts-cartoon.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"320\" \/><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><strong><u>Danny Sullivan<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/\">Danny Sullivan <\/a>is the   editor-in-chief of <strong>Search Engine Land<\/strong>, a blog that deals with   news and information about search engines, and search marketing. He graduated   from the University of California, Irvine and for a year he was in England   working for the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sullivan started Search Engine Watch in beginning of June 1997. Search Engine   Watch was a website with guidelines on how to get good search engine results. <strong>Matt Cutts<\/strong> of Google considered Search Engine Watch as <strong>&#8220;must reading,&#8221;<\/strong> and <strong>Tim Mayer<\/strong> of Yahoo! as the <strong>&#8220;most authoritative source on search&#8221;<\/strong>. Search Engine Land is a   news web site that deals with search engine marketing and search engine   optimization. It was founded in 2006 by Sullivan after he left Search Engine   Watch.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-cartoons\/Danny-sullivan-cartoon.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"320\" \/><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><strong><u>Brett Tabke<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/\">Brett Tabke <\/a>is an American   programmer and SEO professional. Brett Tabke has worked in the computer industry   for almost three decades. Tabke is at present the CEO and founder of   Webmaster World Inc. He is also the founder of PHD Software Systems, a specialty   software manufacture that produced a line of software for Commodore computers in   the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Tabke gave several SEO staples as <strong>&#8220;Link Farm&#8221;, &#8220;SEO Themes&#8221;,<\/strong> and the   classic <strong>&#8220;SERP&#8221;<\/strong> (Search Engine Results Page). He was also a founding board   member of SEMPO. He also wrote a chapter for the best selling <strong>&#8220;Google Hacks&#8221;   book.<\/strong> He is also the first identified person to have fully decoded the   Excite and most of the Altavista search engine algos. Tabke\u2019s document &#8220;26 Steps   to 15k a Day&#8221; is one of the most widely read in SEO history.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-cartoons\/Brett-Tabke-cartoon.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"320\" \/><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><strong><u>Shawn Hogan<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalpoint.com\/\">Shawn Hogan<\/a> is currently the   President and CEO of <strong>Digital Point Solutions<\/strong>. He is also a very   good programmer, analyst, technical writer and artist. However, around these   parts he&#8217;s perhaps better known as digitalpoint, webmaster of the DigitalPoint   Forum. In the world of eCommerce, Shawn is known for numerous things, not the   least of which is his very popular SEO Tools. These extremely regarded tools are   accessible free of charge and belong in the arsenal of every serious webmaster,   including forum owners and administrators.<\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-cartoons\/Shawn-Hogan-cartoon.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"320\" \/><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><strong><u>Aaron Matthew Wall<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobook.com\/\">Aaron Matthew Wall <\/a>a, California-based   blogger and search engine optimization expert who writes the popular blog   SEOBook. He is a recurrent speaker at the Search Engine Strategies and PubCon   conferences.<\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-cartoons\/Aaron-wall-cartoon.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"320\" \/><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><strong><u>Rand Fishkin<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/\">Rand Fishkin <\/a>is the CEO and Co-Founder of   SEOmoz, a head in the field of search engine optimization tools, resources &amp;   community. In 2009, he was called among the 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs   below 30 by Business Week, and has been written about it in The Seattle Times,   Newsweek and the NY Times among others. Rand has keynoted conferences on search   from Sydney to Reykjavik, Montreal to Munich and spoken at dozens of shows   around the world. He&#8217;s predominantly passionate about the SEOmoz blog, read by   more than 40,000 search professionals each day. <\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-cartoons\/Rand-Fishkin-cartoon.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"320\" \/><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><strong><u>Michael Grey<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolf-howl.com\/\">Michael Grey<\/a>, another man \u201cin the know\u201d   when it deals about Search Engine Optimization. He blogs on the subject of SEO   at Graywolf\u2019s SEO Blog. He is a SEO although he does work in a lot of different   areas of internet marketing. He has traditional SEO projects and works as well   as managing his own PPC campaigns for some affiliate products and a few e-Books   which he sells. <\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-cartoons\/Michael-Grey-cartoon.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"320\" \/><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><strong><u>Loren Baker<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/\">Loren Baker <\/a>is a graduate in   Mass Communications (marketing and advertising) from Towson University seems to   do good justice to his graduation by entering into Search Engine marketing. His   interest in SEO and web world made him the Director of Search Engine Marketing   in his same organization, WebAdvantage.net where he managed Search Engine   Marketing and SEO team. And with the his learning and experiences, in July 2003,   he launched his own Search Engine Journal where he is the editor now.<\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-cartoons\/Loren-Baker-cartoon.jpg\" width=\"205\" height=\"320\" \/><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><strong><u>Darrin J.Ward<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrinward.com\/\">Darrin J. Ward <\/a>leads the Darrin Ward   team, a group of SEO &amp; SEM professionals that propose top-tier professional   SEO and search marketing services. Darrin has been greatly involved in the SEO   industry since day one. Darrin has founded a number of successful SEO and search   related Websites and search companies.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-cartoons\/Darrin-J.Ward-cartoon.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"320\" \/><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><strong><u>Jeremy Zawodny<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/p>\n<tr><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/jeremy.zawodny.com\/blog\/\">Jeremy Zawodny <\/a>is currently a   Technology Evangelist at Yahoo. Formerly he was part of Yahoo\u2019s platform   engineering group. He\u2019s been at Yahoo ever since then, helping to put MySQL and   other Open Source technologies to use in amusing, interesting, and often very   big ways. In 2000, he started writing for Linux Magazine and continues to do so   today as a columnist and contributing editor.<\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td>\n<p><\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-cartoons\/Jeremy-Zawodny-cartoon.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"320\" \/><\/td>\n<p><\/tr>\n<p><\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Cutts Matt Cutts joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000 and currently he is the head of Google\u2019s Web spam team. Before joining Google, he worked on his Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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