Search Talk Live Search Engine Marketing & SEO Podcast

A tech journeyman always looking for new ways to innovate his field, Jesse McDonald is the Director of SEO at Geek Powered Studios. Originally a musician, he discovered graphic design in 2007 after the breakup of his band, BravoWhatever. He eventually graduated from University of Southern Mississippi with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts with Emphasis in Graphic Design (as well as enough credits to equate a minor in fine art photography). This honed design-based background has granted Jesse a unique outlook on SEO, and today he's considered by many to be a rising star among the next generation of great SEO experts.

Our guest this week is Googles very own Gary Illyes, Webmaster Trends Analyst for Google Switzerland. Having been with Google since 2011, Gary has dedicated his professional career to helping like-minded webmasters create better search experiences for users on quality sites. When not crunching data and finding new ways to improve web searches, he also contributes regularly to both the Webmaster Central Blog and the Google Webmaster Forums. In his youth, Gary taught online journalism in Romania and worked as a technical consultant for several high-profile media outlets. He studied IT at the University of Phoenix and holds an associate degree in journalism from the Ady Endre College of Journalism in Romania.

Aleyda Solis is a well-known and highly experienced International SEO consultant, renowned for providing personalized SEO advice, training, and on-going support. Through her boutique SEO consultancy Orainti, she has dedicated herself to helping multinationals and startups be visible and profitable in some of the world's most competitive, complex environments.

Once known and beloved by webmasters as the face of Bing, Mr. Forrester is now VP, Industry Insights at Yext. Duane sites down with Search Talk Live to talk with us about where the industry will be in the next ten years and we couldn't be happier! Now considered to be one most prominent and respected SEO practitioners working, M. Forrester has distinguished himself with over 18 years of direct search and digital marketing experience. His duties over the years have included content development, planning ad campaigns, managing ad buys, running e-mail, spearheading social media programs, and much more, all for companies ranging from small startups to Caesar's Palace to Microsoft. An author of two business books about digital marketing and conversion optimization published by McGraw-Hill, he also has an extensive resume writing for publications including Duct Tape Marketing, Forbes, WeWork, Search Engine Land and Entrepreneur, and the New York Times. As the Vice President of Organic Search Operations at Bruce Clay-a company he left Microsoft to join-he currently busies himself overseeing content and search optimization for clients all over the world. Long known for his accessibility, he also is something of a globetrotter, always willing to speak at conferences and personally help partners.

Interview with Top Digital Marketing Expert Neil Patel

Pokemon Go And What It Means To Local Businesses

Back by popular demand, we're beyond thrilled to once again welcome Stephan Spencer to SearchTalkLive! A prolific and highly reputable SEO mind, Stephan is best known as the author of Google Power Search, as well as the co-author of both Social E-commerce and The Art of SEO-now in its third edition and considered by many the gold standard of SEO-related literature. As an active blogger, he has contributed to dozens of publications including Practical Ecommerce, MarketingProfs.com, Search Engine Land, Multichannel Merchant, and The Huffington Post.

Keith Goode is a widely respected search marketing professional with experience in website design, landing page optimization, copywriting and editing, keyword research, copy pay-per-click advertising, analytics/reporting, team management, and social media/networking—and somehow in the middle of all that he still finds time to sleep!

When you take a company as industry-respected as SEMrush and increase their online social engagement by 400% in your first year, you must be pretty good at your job, right!? A specialist in conversion and online relationship marketing, Olga Andrienko has in a few short years catapulted herself into the forefront of the international Social Media conversation with her relentless work ethic, innovative thinking, and surprising accessibility. Under her guidance as the Head of Social Media, SEMrush is today considered the world's leading competitive research service for online marketing. In addition to this, Olga has also been featured in a substantial number of publications including Foundr, SproutSocial, Search Engine Journal, and Search Engine Examiner.

As a self-described “true geek in every possible way,” our next guest will fit right in the Search Talk Live community. William Rock, CEO of William Rock LLC, is not just an SEO expert, but a Google Top Contributor and a Level 5 Google Local Guide. What does that mean? He seriously knows his stuff when it comes to the digital marketing field. Williams has developing marketing strategies for companies on Google since 1998, and through that time he has developed a vast set of skills that include conversion analytics training, business marketing seminars, internet marketing strategy advisement, web site forensics, and much more.

We talk about updating a website and how to keep your Search Engine Ranks in check.

Mark Traphagen goes over the fundamentals of SEO and how SEO and Social work togeather to improve rankings and brand awareness! http://searchtalklive.com/

We go over how to create a strategy when creating content and how to share and amplify that content to increase shares and traffic to your website and how to have a better chance at ranking that content on your website. http://searchtalklive.com/

Kelly has been in the marketing field for over ten years. Currently, she is responsible for the strategy, planning, and execution of Moz’s marketing campaigns, from product launches to retention to acquisition campaigns. Prior to that, she was a senior marketing manager for ShopIgniter, Inc. where she was the responsible for the creation, management, budget, and evaluation of online marketing programs. Her creative approaches to online marketing and customer engagement are well respected throughout the industry, and we’re thrilled to have her with us on Search Talk Live! http://searchtalklive.com/

Going over keyword research http://searchtalklive.com/