{"id":986,"date":"2013-04-18T17:12:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediashower.com\/blog\/?p=986"},"modified":"2013-04-21T04:18:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T04:18:11","slug":"the-5-most-influential-seo-gurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/the-5-most-influential-seo-gurus\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Most Influential SEO Gurus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Optimizing websites for search engines is a practice that may have began back when Jumanji<\/em><\/a> was clogging\u00a0up movie theaters, but\u00a0the phrase “SEO” and knowledge of it\u00a0has really exploded in\u00a0recent years. These days\u00a0everyone\u00a0from the savvy Fortune 500 exec to the sassy\u00a0granny\u00a0selling handmade quilts knows about the importance of search engine optimization.<\/p>\n

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But there are people who know SEO, and then there are people who know<\/em> SEO. And then there are people who KNOW<\/strong><\/em> (that’s boldface, italics, and caps) SEO. This article is about them. These are\u00a0the Obi Wans of the\u00a0Web. The Yodas of\u00a0getting noticed. The… the… Greedos of Google?\u00a0Ehh.<\/p>\n

Point is, the following five men\u00a0have undeniably cultivated\u00a0commanding reputations. When it comes to affecting the visibility of a website, we’d to go war with this crew. This is our starting five.<\/p>\n

Matt Cutts: The Google Guru<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nWe’re starting with Matt Cutts because he’s\u00a0the\u00a0head of Google\u2019s webspam team and pretty much the\u00a0main dude\u00a0there for SEO. Being the main dude at Google for\u00a0SEO\u00a0is like LeBron James working at the NBA store—the man is in his element. Google is the industry’s 800-lb gorilla, and Cutts clearly cuts a\u00a0path of influence with the company that dominates the landscape. He also\u00a0developed\u00a0SafeSearch and\u00a0created\u00a0Google\u2019s family filter. On Twitter:@mattcutts<\/a><\/p>\n

Rand Fishkin: The Tools Guru<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rand Fishkin is the founder and CEO of SEOmoz.org<\/a>, home of\u00a0perhaps the industry’s most sought after set of\u00a0SEO software and tools.\u00a0SEOmoz is also a hotbed of discussions and\u00a0insider tips, and The Daily SEO Blog<\/a> is\u00a0closely watched by many. Fishkin is even modest when it comes to touting his\u00a0clout, or at least he was in 2007 when\u00a0he posted his own list<\/a> of the top 10 SEO leaders, removing himself from the chosen few as picked by another blogger. On Twitter: @randfish<\/a><\/p>\n

Danny Sullivan: The Webmaster Guru<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Danny Sullivan the race car driver may be more well known, but we think Danny Sullivan the\u00a0editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land<\/a> is much more influential. His\u00a0site covers all things\u00a0search engines\u00a0and search marketing. An industry\u00a0leader since the industry began, Sullivan’s expertise has been sought after by\u00a0webmasters, marketers,\u00a0and the media\u00a0for nearly 20 years. His\u00a0extensive study on how search engines index web pages, “A Webmaster’s Guide To Search Engines,” was\u00a0published online\u00a0and considered an early\u00a0breakthrough. On Twitter: @dannysullivan<\/a><\/p>\n

Aaron Wall: The Book Guru<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The man behind the very successful book-turned-training-program site SEOBook.com<\/a>, Aaron Wall is\u00a0a true expert\u00a0on search engine optimization.\u00a0Type “SEO training” into Google and\u00a0Wall’s site is the first to pop up. He also regularly dispenses SEO-related wisdom and wit to his nearly 70,000 Twitter followers. You ready to become one? @aaronwall<\/a><\/p>\n

Neil Patel: The Young Gun Guru
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It’s possible<\/em> that Neil Patel\u00a0may be a little cocky (“I’m kind of a big deal” is his profile quote on Twitter), but hey, if the Wall Street Journal calls you one of the top influencers on the web at age 21, can it be helped? The founder of Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics, two Internet\u00a0companies that have been hired to help corporate giants like Viacom, Amazon, AOL, and General Motors, Patel is also a prolific\u00a0blogger at QuickSprout<\/a>\u00a0and has\u00a0received kudos\u00a0from the U.S. House of Representatives for his work in the non-profit sector. On Twitter: @neilpatel<\/a><\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>
\nOf course a list like this is subjective and pretty tough to narrow down to a fab five, but somehow we buckled down and did it. While there are other men and yes, women<\/a>, who are also among the SEO elite, no one can legitimately argue that the preceding picks are\u00a0anything less than potent. If you still do\u00a0wish to bicker, we’ll get you in touch with\u00a0quilting granny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Optimizing websites for search engines is a practice that may have began back when Jumanji was clogging\u00a0up movie theaters, but\u00a0the phrase “SEO” and knowledge of it\u00a0has really exploded in\u00a0recent years. These days\u00a0everyone\u00a0from the savvy Fortune 500 exec to the sassy\u00a0granny\u00a0selling handmade quilts knows about the importance of search engine optimization. But there are people who… Read More…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}