I had the great opportunity to share a few beers with Harris and Anthony Pensabene in 2012. Thanks to Harris for sharing his mentor story with me today. Like most people in this industry, SEO was the best job I never knew I wanted. As a kid that could put together the Lego Millennium Falcon with no instructions, by the ... Read More »
Thanks to Jonathon Colman (@jcolman) of REI for sharing his mentor story with me, which reads more like an origin story of one of my favorite SEO superheroes. Like everyone, I’ve been touched by countless mentors through the years – I wouldn’t be where I am without them. They’re the folks who inspired me to learn and grow while challenging ... Read More »
Special thanks to Josh Patrice of Portent for sharing his mentoring story with me. Back then there were no quality scores, it was much more direct – you pay more, you rank higher. My first job out of college marked the beginning of my career in search engine marketing. I was hired as a Performance Engineer (later changed to the actually descriptive Search ... Read More »
Thanks to James Agate of Skyrocket SEO for sharing his mentor story! My name is James Agate, I live in Chester, UK and I run Skyrocket SEO a link building company that works with digital marketing agencies and in-house teams at big brands. How did I get into SEO? I built my first website at the age of 13, I used MS ... Read More »
Thanks to Colleen Hofmann of Howard Miller Associates for sharing her cool “origin story” with me. I had no idea what I was doing or even that it might vaguely be considered SEO. My first interaction with SEO began as a sophomore in high school. With some basic knowledge of HTML and a superficial idea of what keywords were, I ... Read More »
Thanks to Melissa Weidenborner for sharing her Mentor Story. Philly misses you! I never intended to go into SEO. For me, it’s always been about creating content. I started blogging while my husband was stationed in Fort Bragg, NC with the United States Army. My husband and his unit had just been deployed to Iraq. I could only watch as ... Read More »
Nick Eubanks is an extremely smart digital strategist from Philadelphia and all around nice guy. You can’t keep up with him, but you can try by following his SEO blog. Thanks to him for sharing this bit of inspiration. I got into the technology space (I feel like my father when I say that) while I was in college, and ... Read More »
Thanks to Rivka Fogel of AJ Madison for sharing her mentor story with me. I cobbled together my SEO training. I’ve been in-house for over a year now, but in spring of 2011 I didn’t know what an SERP was. I Googled things a lot, and played with HTML in my work as a poet, and I had taught myself ... Read More »
The hilarious Joel Klettke of Vovia shared his mentor story with me. Make sure you wish Joel a happy birthday today! I suppose mine is a different kind of mentorship story. I fell into SEO immediately after graduating with an Entrepreneurship degree. I had a friend working for the company (Jon) who encouraged me to apply. At the time I ... Read More »
Thanks to John Doherty of Distilled for sharing his mentor story with me. I got started in SEO a few years ago and found my way through the first part of it. I was lucky to be on a team with two other guys, Ryan Fontana and Ethan Lyon (both now with SEER), in my first job and they both ... Read More »
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