The Most Crucial Follows for SEO in 2013

SEO top trumps Know The Industry. Know Who To Follow. With the vast amount of SEO content available on the internet, how do you know: What is valuable? What is relevant? Who is knowledgeable? Who is worth following? Use this SEO Top Trumps infographic to help you decide! Follow them! Learn from them! Improve your online success! blog Authors/ Writers Bloggers Company Founders SEO Toolsets Speakers Danny Sullivan Matt Cutts Jeremy Shoemaker Aaron Wall Social Influence Social Influence 89% 83% Social Following 86,800 Social Influence 85% 92% Social Influence Social Following 2,070,400 Social Following 419,600 Social Following 174,300 Industry Interaction 34,500 Industry Interaction 18,200 Industry Interaction 10,900 Industry Interaction 6,300 Achievement Score 8/10 Achievement Score 8/10 Achievement Score 8/10 Achievement Score 7/10 -Founded SearchEngineland.com Head of Webspam at Google -Creator of ShoeMoneyMedia.com Creator of SEObook Danny is Editor-In-Chief at Search Engine Land, one of the most popular search engine marketing blogs. He started out in search founding Search Engine Watch and the Serch Engine Strategies / Matt is head of Google's webspam team and very much the public face of Google as far as any SEO is concerned. / Jeremy has had an interesting career in online marketing. He is a great entrepeneur, making money from many different ventures from Affiliate marketing and Adsense to ad serving technologies. / Aaron is a highly respected SEO veteran, best known for SEO Book - fomerly the most popular ebook on SEO which is nowa complete training program and toolset. conference series. A crucial follow, Danny is a great source of breaking industry news and well-backed opinions. Regarded as a 'founding father' of the search industry, heis well worth listening to. 7 Matt is the only person who can completely confirm Google's algorithm position on a certain topic (if you trust him!). Get the latest from Google's webspam guru! His tweets are entertaining and very regular and he is not afraid of confrontation! Check out the Aaron is a key figure in the industry and an entertaining follow. His blogging on seobook.com (and his personal blog) is interesting and diverse, as are his tweets. shoemoney blog, a must read. Content focusses on SEO, but also a lot of great general marketing stuff. B - twitter.com/dannysullivan f - facebook.com/dannysullivan 2*- plus.google.com/+DannySullivan/ in - linkedin.com/in/dannysullivan w - searchengineland.com B - twitter.com/shoemoney f - facebook.com/internetmarketer 8*- plus.google.com/115832841787952710331/ in - linkedin.com/in/shoemoney w - shoemoney.com B - twitter.com/mattcutts B - twitter.com/aaronwall *- plus.google.com/+aaronwall/ in - linkedin.com/in/seobook W- aaronwall.com plus.google.com/+MattCutts/ w - mattcutts.com/blog/ -Rand Fishkin Lee Odden -Vanessa Fox Greg Boser 89% 96% Social Following 60;300 Social Influence Social Influence Social Influence 85% Social Influence 78% Social Following 73,700 Social Following 50;800 Social Following 43,500 Industry Interaction 13,600 Industry Interaction 23;500 Industry Interaction5,600 Industry Interaction 1,700 Achievement Score 9/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 6/10 Founder of SEOMOZ Creator of TopRankMarketing.com Author - Marketing in the age of Google President of BlueGlass Interactive Rand is CEO of SEOMOZ, a company which started out as an SEO consultancy business and is now provider of the most popular SEO toolset available. / Lee is CEO of TopRank Online Marketing and is a published author (Optimize) and industry speaker. With 16 years in online marketing, Lee has a great deal of experience and knowledge to share. Vanessa is known for her work at Google, where she created Webmaster Central. She is an ex-Google spokesperson, author and is currently CEO of Nine By Blue. President of BlueGlass Interactive, Greg is a very experienced SEO who's been in online marketing for over 15 years. Perhaps the strongest advocate of white-hat SEO, Rand is a great source of content marketing tips, clean SEO advice and interesting retweets covering all sorts of topics. 7 A very regular tweeter, Lee shares a lot of great content covering SEO, social media and general online marketing A regularspeaker at conferences and an extremely experienced online marketer, Vanessa is an important industry figure. Greg doesn't tweet a great deal of content compared to some on this list, but he's on the forefront of quality SEO servicing so day to day SEO challenges and ideas often pop up. B- twitter.com/GregBoser f - facebook.com/greg.boser *- plus.google.com/104143443295913279306/ in - linkedin.com/in/gregboser W -gregboser.com B - twitter.com/randfish B - twitter.com/leeodden B - twitter.com/vanessafox facebook.com/rand.fishkin - facebook.com/lee.odden facebook.com/vanessa.fox *- plus.google.com/111294201325870406922/ in - linkedin.com/in/randfishkin *- plus.google.com/101206766570550710645/ in - linkedin.com/in/leeodden *- plus.google.com/+VanessaFox/ in - linkedin.com/in/vanessafox W - moz.com/rand/ W- toprankblog.com W - vanessafox.com Brett Tabke Matt McGee -Daron Babin Barry Schwartz 79% Social Following 40,500 Social Influence 84% Social Following 37,400 Industry Interaction 16,300 Social Influence 64% Social Following 38,100 Social Influence Social Influence 79% Social Following 32,900 Industry Interaction 10,700 Industry Interaction 12,900 Industry Interaction 29,000 Achievement Score 8/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 6/10 Achievement Score 7/10 -Editor-in-chief at SearchEngineland.com Started WebmasterWorld.com Started WebmasterRadio Founder of SERoundTable.com / Brett is founder of Webmaster World, a very popular Webmaster and SEO forum which has been going since 1996, and Pubcon, an industry conference. Matt is the editor and chief at Search Engine Land a fantastic resource for news and opinions on developments in the SEO industry. A respected consultant and conference speaker appearing in many top publications such as the Wall Street Journal. / A regular blogger and editor of Search Engine Roundtable, Barry is also CEO of RustyBrick and a news editor at Search Engine Land Daron is co-founder of Webmaster Radio, an online radio station dedicated to SEO, PPC and internet marketing. Very active in the industry, Brett tweets regularly on upcoming events, news, tips and some really interesting reads. Matt is often one of the first covering breaking news in the industry - so an important person to follow. Pretty SEO focussed, and not much noise - Daron is always tweeting great content on key SEO topics. Barry is a highly respected SEO and a very active community member. He is one of the best sources of breaking news and industry related tweets. twitter.com/btabke - twitter.com/mattmcgee twitter.com/DaronBabin B - twitter.com/rustybrick f- facebook.com/btabke *- plus.google.com/101151914151468344829/ in - linkedin.com/in/bretttabke f- facebook.com/DaronBabin Q+- plus.google.com/100638921228774374117/ in - linkedin.com/in/dbabin w - webmasterradio.fm/ - facebook.com/MattMcgee facebook.com/barryschwartz Q+- plus.google.com/108652640482631 482795/ in - linkedin.com/in/mattmcgee w - smallbusinesssem.com Q* - plus.google.com/+BarrySchwartz/ in - linkedin.com/in/rustybrick w - cartoonbarry.com W - webmasterworld.com -Andy Beal David Naylor Bill Slawski Bruce Clay Social Influence 87% Social Influence 84% Social Influence 61% Social Influence 66% Social Following 25,400 Social Following 25,100 Social Following 20,600 Social Following 15,800 Industry Interaction 36,500 Industry Interaction8,200 Industry Interaction7,900 Industry Interaction 3,400 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score7/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 8/10 Founder of Marketing Pilgrim Founder of Bronco.co.uk Started SEO by the Sea Founder of BruceClay Inc. Andy is CEO of Trackur social media monitoring software and founder of Marketing Pilgrim, an internet marketing and online advertising news site. Dave runs Bronco, an SEM & web development agency and ako speaks regularly at search engine marketing conferences. Bill is president of SEO By The Sea, founder of * internet marketing forum Cresatsite, writer of many articles for publications Website Magazine, Search Marketing Standard, and Target Marketing. / Bruce is the founder of Bruce Clay Inc, a global internet marketing company. He has also created several SEO tools and co-authored Search Engine Optimization All-in-One for Dummies. 7 You'l find a lot of tweeting about day-to-day SEO, which is always good as Dave knows his stuff Andy tweets a lot of more general online marketing content Always really interesting stuff, and usually with SEO relevance. He specialises in online reputation management. Bill is well known for reading a lot of patent documents - which can be very useful to discover what search engines are up to :). He tweets very regularly on all things SEO, a great follow. There's always great content coming daily from he company blog. B - twitter.com/AndyBeal B - twitter.com/DaveNaylor B - twitter.com/bruce_clay B - twitter.com/bill_slawski f - facebook.com/bill.slawski *- plus.google.com/106515636986325493284/ in - linkedin.com/in/slawski f - facebook.com/andybealceo *- plus.google.com/118143096363038158137/ f - facebook.com/bruce.clay *- plus.google.com/108709924006660387529/ in - linkedin.com/pub/bruce-clay/0/449/143 w - bruceclay.com facebook.com/dave.seo *- plus.google.com/113021619972679856263/ in - linkedin.com/in/daven w - davidnaylor.co.uk in W - marketingpilgrim.com - seobythesea.com Todd Malicoat Will Critchlow -Debra Mastaler Heather Lloyd-Martin 78% 15,400 Industry Interaction 5,800 Achievement Score7/10 Social Influence Social Influence 78% Social Influence 68% Social Influence 65% Social Following Social Following 14,900 Social Following 13,400 Social Following 11,000 Industry Interaction 11,300 Achievement Score 8/10 Industry Interaction 12,000 Industry Interaction 6,700 Achievement Score 8/10 Achievement Score7/10 Creator of Stuntdubl.com Founder of Distilled Started AffillateLink.com Creator of Success Works / Todd is a highly respected SEO, blogging regularly on SEO and online marketing, consulting and speaking at conferences. / Will runs Distilled, an online marketing company he co-founded in 2005. Distilled are perhaps best known due to their relationship with SEOMoz. In 2010, SEOMOZ handed their consultancy clients over to Debra is President of AllianceLink and The Link Founder of SuccessWorks, Heather focusses on * Spiel and delivers SEO training consultancy. She has been featured in several top SEO sites and is a guest blogger for Search Engine Land and Search Engine Guide. SEO copywriting. She's also a regular conference speaker and author of 'Successful Search Engine Copywriting'. Distilled. Todd writes really interesting posts on a range of marketing topics with an SEO focus, from an entrepeneurs perspective. He also retweets a lot of content you won't want to miss. Will is a regular speaker at conferences. He is a very active member of the SEO community and a prolific tweeter; a great source for tips, opinions and general marketing content! Quite social-media focussed and regularly posting Debra is well worth following. Her tweets are heavily content focussed, always interesting stuff. Heather tweets a lot of good tips, content from her blog and industry news; an essential follow for diversity. B - twitter.com/debramastaler f - facebook.com/debra.mastaler B - twitter.com/heatherlloyd B - twitter.com/stuntdubl. f - facebook.com/miamifishing 8-plus.google.com/117752108309298422208/ in - linkedin.com/in/toddmalicoat w - stuntdubl.com B - twitter.com/willcritchlow - facebook.com/willcritchlow -/SuccessWorks.SEO.Copywriting plus.google.com/100170499799078378149/ in - linkedin.com/in/willcritchlow w - willeritchlow.com +- plus.google.com/103682117587904833322/ in - linkedin.com/in/debramastaler *- plus.google.com/108573638579651461810/ in - linkedin.com/in/heatherlloydmartin w - seocopywriting.com alliance-link.com -Eric Ward Judith Lewis Lisa Myers Dixon Jones Social Influence 67% Social Influence 73% Social Influence 65% Social Influence 67% Social Following 11,000 Social Following 10,500 Social Following 8;300 Social Following 8,200 Industry Interaction 900 Industry Interaction 25,000 Industry Interaction 4,700 Industry Interaction 5,500 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 6/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Owner of URLwire Blogger at decabbit.com Founder of VerveSearch.com Marketing Director Majestic SEO Creator of URLwire Eric is regarded as one of the top link-building experts. He writes for Search Engine Land and provides link building services, training, and consultancy via his website Blogger at Huffington Post and SEO Chicks and a very regular conference speaker, Judith is a very experienced online marketer. Lisa is founder of Verve Search, popular SEO blog SEO Chicks and oo-founded the blog State of Search. Lisa was also voted Search Personality of Dicon Jones founded Receptional, an internet marketing company, and is the marketing director of Majestic SEO, a link intelligence tool with the most comprehensive publicly available index of sites and the Year 2011 at the UK Search Awards. EricWard.com. links. Eric is a frequent conference speaker and writer who produces great content time and time again. Eric is an important folow for link building tactics and tips. An extremely active tweeter, Judith is a great source of content and opinions. Mostly SEO focussed. Worth following for conference tweets, great content from her blogs and industry developments. Recently named 'personality of the year at the UK Search Awards, Dixon is a fantastic SEO and a great source for the really interesting blog posts Majectic SEO and Receptional produce. B - twitter.com/LisaDMyers f - facebook.com/lisadmyers *- plus.google.com/117942443067183917393/ in - linkedin.com/in/lisadmyers B - twitter.com/Dixon_Jones B - twitter.com/ericward f - facebook.com/linkmoses g*- plus.google.com/+EricWard/ in - linkedin.com/in/ericward B - twitter.com/JudithLewis f - facebook.com/JudithLewis *- plus.google.com/100359495108039669131 in - linkedin.com/in/judithlewis -facebook.com/dixonjones *- plus.google.com/113029961823986738300/ in - linkedin.com/in/dixonjones w - dixonjones.com/ w - EricWard.com decabbit.com W - seo-chicks.com -Jennifer Slegg Mike Grehan Duane Forrester Michael Gray 69% 54% Social Following 4,500 Industry Interaction1,600 Social Influence Social Influence 61% Social Influence 75% Social Influence Social Following 6,600 Industry Interaction1,500 Social Following 6,900 Social Following 6,000 Industry Interaction4,500 Achievement Score 6/10 Industry Interaction 25,100 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 6/10 Creator of JenSense.com Manages Bing Webmaster Tools Founder of Atlas Web Service Author - Search Engine Marketing: the Essential Best Practices Guide Jen is creator of JenSense, is a blogger and speaker. She is best known for her work with Adsense and Mike is group publishing director at Incisive * Media, author, president of SEMPO and has been in search marketing for many years. Duane is the public face of Bing's webmaster program. He manages Bing Webmaster Tools and the Webmaster blog, as well as blogging personally and authoring two books on online marketing. / Michael runs his own SEO consulting firm and is a regular speaker at the top SEO conferences, for example SMX, SES and Pubcon. monetising online content. She also moderates and contributes to some leading online forums. Coming from a writing background Jen brings an interesting viewpoint that both publishers and online advertisers can appreciate. Mike tweets loads of great content on a range of topics. His updates cover a really broad range of digital marketing subjects. A very active member of the search community. Duane tweets a million times a day, but it's all good stuff - a great source of interesting article links. And it's not Bing biased. Also, an obvious source of important Bing news. Michael posts a lot of of great suff, covering tech news in general, with some SEO bias of course. Be prepared for some entertaining, but random tweets as well - though his Google plus is more content focussed. B- twitter.com/mikegrehan B - twitter.com/jenstar f - facebook.com/jenniferslegg *- plus.google.com/108875521201071322961/ in - linkedin.com/pub/jennifer-slegg/2/38b/89b W - jenniferslegg.com/ B - twitter.com/duaneforrester B - twitter.com/graywolf facebook.com/mgilluminati - facebook.com/mike.grehan2 f - facebook.com/duane.forrester 39 *- plus.google.com/107510682447261273544/ in - linkedin.com/in/dforrester w - theonlinemarketingguy.com/ - plus.google.com/116884753591158922581/ -plus.google.com/113469309872759209920/ -linkedin.com/in/mikegrehan linkedin.com/in/michaelgray w - wolf-howl.com w - mikegrehan.com -Dana Todd Ben Wills Jennifer Cario Ken McGaffin Social Influence 63% Social Influence 63% Social Influence 54% Social Influence 48% Social Following Industry Interaction 9,000 Social Following 2,600 Industry Interaction 800 Social Following 3,900 3,800 Social Following 3,200 Industry Interaction 2,400 Industry Interaction 1,000 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 6/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 6/10 Started Sitelab.com Founder of Ontolo Founder of SugarSpun Marketing Creator of LinkingMatters.com Dana is currently SVPof Marketing and Business Development at Performics and co-founded SEMPO, a non-profit organization serving the search engine marketing industry. Ben founded Ontolo, an SEO Tools company with solutions for everything from competitor monitoring to link building campaign management. Founder of SugarSpun Marketing, author of several marketing books, Jennifer is an expert in social media and SEO. She's also a regular speaker at the top SEM conferences. Ken is Chief Marketing Officer at Wordtracker. He also writes for Search Engine Watch and runs LinkingMatters.com. Dana is a regular conference speaker nationally and internationally and shares some great general marketing content. ! Source of some great insights through research pieces using their link building and SEO tools, Ben is a great follow. Jennifer's SugarSpun Marketing website has some great content on SEO and social media in particular. She also tweets loads of great social media tips. A regular tweeter, Ken shares loads of quality posts you'll want to look into, he also is a great source for linking building tips. B - twitter.com/mcgaffin f - facebook.com/ken.mcgaffin.7 B - twitter.com/danatodd f - facebook.com/dana.todd Q+- plus.google.com/109407907214491900800/ in - linkedin.com/in/danatodd B - twitter.com/benwills f- facebook.com/ben.wills *- plus.google.com/102540918053421814838/ in - linkedin.com/in/benwills B - twitter.com/JenniferCario f - facebook.com/jennifer.laycock *- plus.google.com/114834785042849680025/ in - linkedin.com/in/jennifercario w - sugarspunmarketing.com *- plus.google.com/101478076215910626572/ in - linkedin.com/in/kenmegaffin W - mcgaffin.com sitelab.com w - benwills.com Wildfire Digital All of the individuals on this infographic offer a great deal to the search industry, but those displaying this * icon we feel are crucial follows for their valuable and consistent content! Wildfire DIGITAL This Infographic is brought to you by the Wildfire Digital team. 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Improve your online success! blog Authors/ Writers Bloggers Company Founders SEO Toolsets Speakers Danny Sullivan Matt Cutts Jeremy Shoemaker Aaron Wall Social Influence Social Influence 89% 83% Social Following 86,800 Social Influence 85% 92% Social Influence Social Following 2,070,400 Social Following 419,600 Social Following 174,300 Industry Interaction 34,500 Industry Interaction 18,200 Industry Interaction 10,900 Industry Interaction 6,300 Achievement Score 8/10 Achievement Score 8/10 Achievement Score 8/10 Achievement Score 7/10 -Founded SearchEngineland.com Head of Webspam at Google -Creator of ShoeMoneyMedia.com Creator of SEObook Danny is Editor-In-Chief at Search Engine Land, one of the most popular search engine marketing blogs. He started out in search founding Search Engine Watch and the Serch Engine Strategies / Matt is head of Google's webspam team and very much the public face of Google as far as any SEO is concerned. / Jeremy has had an interesting career in online marketing. He is a great entrepeneur, making money from many different ventures from Affiliate marketing and Adsense to ad serving technologies. / Aaron is a highly respected SEO veteran, best known for SEO Book - fomerly the most popular ebook on SEO which is nowa complete training program and toolset. conference series. A crucial follow, Danny is a great source of breaking industry news and well-backed opinions. Regarded as a 'founding father' of the search industry, heis well worth listening to. 7 Matt is the only person who can completely confirm Google's algorithm position on a certain topic (if you trust him!). Get the latest from Google's webspam guru! His tweets are entertaining and very regular and he is not afraid of confrontation! Check out the Aaron is a key figure in the industry and an entertaining follow. His blogging on seobook.com (and his personal blog) is interesting and diverse, as are his tweets. shoemoney blog, a must read. Content focusses on SEO, but also a lot of great general marketing stuff. B - twitter.com/dannysullivan f - facebook.com/dannysullivan 2*- plus.google.com/+DannySullivan/ in - linkedin.com/in/dannysullivan w - searchengineland.com B - twitter.com/shoemoney f - facebook.com/internetmarketer 8*- plus.google.com/115832841787952710331/ in - linkedin.com/in/shoemoney w - shoemoney.com B - twitter.com/mattcutts B - twitter.com/aaronwall *- plus.google.com/+aaronwall/ in - linkedin.com/in/seobook W- aaronwall.com plus.google.com/+MattCutts/ w - mattcutts.com/blog/ -Rand Fishkin Lee Odden -Vanessa Fox Greg Boser 89% 96% Social Following 60;300 Social Influence Social Influence Social Influence 85% Social Influence 78% Social Following 73,700 Social Following 50;800 Social Following 43,500 Industry Interaction 13,600 Industry Interaction 23;500 Industry Interaction5,600 Industry Interaction 1,700 Achievement Score 9/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 6/10 Founder of SEOMOZ Creator of TopRankMarketing.com Author - Marketing in the age of Google President of BlueGlass Interactive Rand is CEO of SEOMOZ, a company which started out as an SEO consultancy business and is now provider of the most popular SEO toolset available. / Lee is CEO of TopRank Online Marketing and is a published author (Optimize) and industry speaker. With 16 years in online marketing, Lee has a great deal of experience and knowledge to share. Vanessa is known for her work at Google, where she created Webmaster Central. She is an ex-Google spokesperson, author and is currently CEO of Nine By Blue. President of BlueGlass Interactive, Greg is a very experienced SEO who's been in online marketing for over 15 years. Perhaps the strongest advocate of white-hat SEO, Rand is a great source of content marketing tips, clean SEO advice and interesting retweets covering all sorts of topics. 7 A very regular tweeter, Lee shares a lot of great content covering SEO, social media and general online marketing A regularspeaker at conferences and an extremely experienced online marketer, Vanessa is an important industry figure. Greg doesn't tweet a great deal of content compared to some on this list, but he's on the forefront of quality SEO servicing so day to day SEO challenges and ideas often pop up. B- twitter.com/GregBoser f - facebook.com/greg.boser *- plus.google.com/104143443295913279306/ in - linkedin.com/in/gregboser W -gregboser.com B - twitter.com/randfish B - twitter.com/leeodden B - twitter.com/vanessafox facebook.com/rand.fishkin - facebook.com/lee.odden facebook.com/vanessa.fox *- plus.google.com/111294201325870406922/ in - linkedin.com/in/randfishkin *- plus.google.com/101206766570550710645/ in - linkedin.com/in/leeodden *- plus.google.com/+VanessaFox/ in - linkedin.com/in/vanessafox W - moz.com/rand/ W- toprankblog.com W - vanessafox.com Brett Tabke Matt McGee -Daron Babin Barry Schwartz 79% Social Following 40,500 Social Influence 84% Social Following 37,400 Industry Interaction 16,300 Social Influence 64% Social Following 38,100 Social Influence Social Influence 79% Social Following 32,900 Industry Interaction 10,700 Industry Interaction 12,900 Industry Interaction 29,000 Achievement Score 8/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 6/10 Achievement Score 7/10 -Editor-in-chief at SearchEngineland.com Started WebmasterWorld.com Started WebmasterRadio Founder of SERoundTable.com / Brett is founder of Webmaster World, a very popular Webmaster and SEO forum which has been going since 1996, and Pubcon, an industry conference. Matt is the editor and chief at Search Engine Land a fantastic resource for news and opinions on developments in the SEO industry. A respected consultant and conference speaker appearing in many top publications such as the Wall Street Journal. / A regular blogger and editor of Search Engine Roundtable, Barry is also CEO of RustyBrick and a news editor at Search Engine Land Daron is co-founder of Webmaster Radio, an online radio station dedicated to SEO, PPC and internet marketing. Very active in the industry, Brett tweets regularly on upcoming events, news, tips and some really interesting reads. Matt is often one of the first covering breaking news in the industry - so an important person to follow. Pretty SEO focussed, and not much noise - Daron is always tweeting great content on key SEO topics. Barry is a highly respected SEO and a very active community member. He is one of the best sources of breaking news and industry related tweets. twitter.com/btabke - twitter.com/mattmcgee twitter.com/DaronBabin B - twitter.com/rustybrick f- facebook.com/btabke *- plus.google.com/101151914151468344829/ in - linkedin.com/in/bretttabke f- facebook.com/DaronBabin Q+- plus.google.com/100638921228774374117/ in - linkedin.com/in/dbabin w - webmasterradio.fm/ - facebook.com/MattMcgee facebook.com/barryschwartz Q+- plus.google.com/108652640482631 482795/ in - linkedin.com/in/mattmcgee w - smallbusinesssem.com Q* - plus.google.com/+BarrySchwartz/ in - linkedin.com/in/rustybrick w - cartoonbarry.com W - webmasterworld.com -Andy Beal David Naylor Bill Slawski Bruce Clay Social Influence 87% Social Influence 84% Social Influence 61% Social Influence 66% Social Following 25,400 Social Following 25,100 Social Following 20,600 Social Following 15,800 Industry Interaction 36,500 Industry Interaction8,200 Industry Interaction7,900 Industry Interaction 3,400 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score7/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 8/10 Founder of Marketing Pilgrim Founder of Bronco.co.uk Started SEO by the Sea Founder of BruceClay Inc. Andy is CEO of Trackur social media monitoring software and founder of Marketing Pilgrim, an internet marketing and online advertising news site. Dave runs Bronco, an SEM & web development agency and ako speaks regularly at search engine marketing conferences. Bill is president of SEO By The Sea, founder of * internet marketing forum Cresatsite, writer of many articles for publications Website Magazine, Search Marketing Standard, and Target Marketing. / Bruce is the founder of Bruce Clay Inc, a global internet marketing company. He has also created several SEO tools and co-authored Search Engine Optimization All-in-One for Dummies. 7 You'l find a lot of tweeting about day-to-day SEO, which is always good as Dave knows his stuff Andy tweets a lot of more general online marketing content Always really interesting stuff, and usually with SEO relevance. He specialises in online reputation management. Bill is well known for reading a lot of patent documents - which can be very useful to discover what search engines are up to :). He tweets very regularly on all things SEO, a great follow. There's always great content coming daily from he company blog. B - twitter.com/AndyBeal B - twitter.com/DaveNaylor B - twitter.com/bruce_clay B - twitter.com/bill_slawski f - facebook.com/bill.slawski *- plus.google.com/106515636986325493284/ in - linkedin.com/in/slawski f - facebook.com/andybealceo *- plus.google.com/118143096363038158137/ f - facebook.com/bruce.clay *- plus.google.com/108709924006660387529/ in - linkedin.com/pub/bruce-clay/0/449/143 w - bruceclay.com facebook.com/dave.seo *- plus.google.com/113021619972679856263/ in - linkedin.com/in/daven w - davidnaylor.co.uk in W - marketingpilgrim.com - seobythesea.com Todd Malicoat Will Critchlow -Debra Mastaler Heather Lloyd-Martin 78% 15,400 Industry Interaction 5,800 Achievement Score7/10 Social Influence Social Influence 78% Social Influence 68% Social Influence 65% Social Following Social Following 14,900 Social Following 13,400 Social Following 11,000 Industry Interaction 11,300 Achievement Score 8/10 Industry Interaction 12,000 Industry Interaction 6,700 Achievement Score 8/10 Achievement Score7/10 Creator of Stuntdubl.com Founder of Distilled Started AffillateLink.com Creator of Success Works / Todd is a highly respected SEO, blogging regularly on SEO and online marketing, consulting and speaking at conferences. / Will runs Distilled, an online marketing company he co-founded in 2005. Distilled are perhaps best known due to their relationship with SEOMoz. In 2010, SEOMOZ handed their consultancy clients over to Debra is President of AllianceLink and The Link Founder of SuccessWorks, Heather focusses on * Spiel and delivers SEO training consultancy. She has been featured in several top SEO sites and is a guest blogger for Search Engine Land and Search Engine Guide. SEO copywriting. She's also a regular conference speaker and author of 'Successful Search Engine Copywriting'. Distilled. Todd writes really interesting posts on a range of marketing topics with an SEO focus, from an entrepeneurs perspective. He also retweets a lot of content you won't want to miss. Will is a regular speaker at conferences. He is a very active member of the SEO community and a prolific tweeter; a great source for tips, opinions and general marketing content! Quite social-media focussed and regularly posting Debra is well worth following. Her tweets are heavily content focussed, always interesting stuff. Heather tweets a lot of good tips, content from her blog and industry news; an essential follow for diversity. B - twitter.com/debramastaler f - facebook.com/debra.mastaler B - twitter.com/heatherlloyd B - twitter.com/stuntdubl. f - facebook.com/miamifishing 8-plus.google.com/117752108309298422208/ in - linkedin.com/in/toddmalicoat w - stuntdubl.com B - twitter.com/willcritchlow - facebook.com/willcritchlow -/SuccessWorks.SEO.Copywriting plus.google.com/100170499799078378149/ in - linkedin.com/in/willcritchlow w - willeritchlow.com +- plus.google.com/103682117587904833322/ in - linkedin.com/in/debramastaler *- plus.google.com/108573638579651461810/ in - linkedin.com/in/heatherlloydmartin w - seocopywriting.com alliance-link.com -Eric Ward Judith Lewis Lisa Myers Dixon Jones Social Influence 67% Social Influence 73% Social Influence 65% Social Influence 67% Social Following 11,000 Social Following 10,500 Social Following 8;300 Social Following 8,200 Industry Interaction 900 Industry Interaction 25,000 Industry Interaction 4,700 Industry Interaction 5,500 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 6/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Owner of URLwire Blogger at decabbit.com Founder of VerveSearch.com Marketing Director Majestic SEO Creator of URLwire Eric is regarded as one of the top link-building experts. He writes for Search Engine Land and provides link building services, training, and consultancy via his website Blogger at Huffington Post and SEO Chicks and a very regular conference speaker, Judith is a very experienced online marketer. Lisa is founder of Verve Search, popular SEO blog SEO Chicks and oo-founded the blog State of Search. Lisa was also voted Search Personality of Dicon Jones founded Receptional, an internet marketing company, and is the marketing director of Majestic SEO, a link intelligence tool with the most comprehensive publicly available index of sites and the Year 2011 at the UK Search Awards. EricWard.com. links. Eric is a frequent conference speaker and writer who produces great content time and time again. Eric is an important folow for link building tactics and tips. An extremely active tweeter, Judith is a great source of content and opinions. Mostly SEO focussed. Worth following for conference tweets, great content from her blogs and industry developments. Recently named 'personality of the year at the UK Search Awards, Dixon is a fantastic SEO and a great source for the really interesting blog posts Majectic SEO and Receptional produce. B - twitter.com/LisaDMyers f - facebook.com/lisadmyers *- plus.google.com/117942443067183917393/ in - linkedin.com/in/lisadmyers B - twitter.com/Dixon_Jones B - twitter.com/ericward f - facebook.com/linkmoses g*- plus.google.com/+EricWard/ in - linkedin.com/in/ericward B - twitter.com/JudithLewis f - facebook.com/JudithLewis *- plus.google.com/100359495108039669131 in - linkedin.com/in/judithlewis -facebook.com/dixonjones *- plus.google.com/113029961823986738300/ in - linkedin.com/in/dixonjones w - dixonjones.com/ w - EricWard.com decabbit.com W - seo-chicks.com -Jennifer Slegg Mike Grehan Duane Forrester Michael Gray 69% 54% Social Following 4,500 Industry Interaction1,600 Social Influence Social Influence 61% Social Influence 75% Social Influence Social Following 6,600 Industry Interaction1,500 Social Following 6,900 Social Following 6,000 Industry Interaction4,500 Achievement Score 6/10 Industry Interaction 25,100 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 6/10 Creator of JenSense.com Manages Bing Webmaster Tools Founder of Atlas Web Service Author - Search Engine Marketing: the Essential Best Practices Guide Jen is creator of JenSense, is a blogger and speaker. She is best known for her work with Adsense and Mike is group publishing director at Incisive * Media, author, president of SEMPO and has been in search marketing for many years. Duane is the public face of Bing's webmaster program. He manages Bing Webmaster Tools and the Webmaster blog, as well as blogging personally and authoring two books on online marketing. / Michael runs his own SEO consulting firm and is a regular speaker at the top SEO conferences, for example SMX, SES and Pubcon. monetising online content. She also moderates and contributes to some leading online forums. Coming from a writing background Jen brings an interesting viewpoint that both publishers and online advertisers can appreciate. Mike tweets loads of great content on a range of topics. His updates cover a really broad range of digital marketing subjects. A very active member of the search community. Duane tweets a million times a day, but it's all good stuff - a great source of interesting article links. And it's not Bing biased. Also, an obvious source of important Bing news. Michael posts a lot of of great suff, covering tech news in general, with some SEO bias of course. Be prepared for some entertaining, but random tweets as well - though his Google plus is more content focussed. B- twitter.com/mikegrehan B - twitter.com/jenstar f - facebook.com/jenniferslegg *- plus.google.com/108875521201071322961/ in - linkedin.com/pub/jennifer-slegg/2/38b/89b W - jenniferslegg.com/ B - twitter.com/duaneforrester B - twitter.com/graywolf facebook.com/mgilluminati - facebook.com/mike.grehan2 f - facebook.com/duane.forrester 39 *- plus.google.com/107510682447261273544/ in - linkedin.com/in/dforrester w - theonlinemarketingguy.com/ - plus.google.com/116884753591158922581/ -plus.google.com/113469309872759209920/ -linkedin.com/in/mikegrehan linkedin.com/in/michaelgray w - wolf-howl.com w - mikegrehan.com -Dana Todd Ben Wills Jennifer Cario Ken McGaffin Social Influence 63% Social Influence 63% Social Influence 54% Social Influence 48% Social Following Industry Interaction 9,000 Social Following 2,600 Industry Interaction 800 Social Following 3,900 3,800 Social Following 3,200 Industry Interaction 2,400 Industry Interaction 1,000 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 6/10 Achievement Score 7/10 Achievement Score 6/10 Started Sitelab.com Founder of Ontolo Founder of SugarSpun Marketing Creator of LinkingMatters.com Dana is currently SVPof Marketing and Business Development at Performics and co-founded SEMPO, a non-profit organization serving the search engine marketing industry. Ben founded Ontolo, an SEO Tools company with solutions for everything from competitor monitoring to link building campaign management. Founder of SugarSpun Marketing, author of several marketing books, Jennifer is an expert in social media and SEO. She's also a regular speaker at the top SEM conferences. Ken is Chief Marketing Officer at Wordtracker. He also writes for Search Engine Watch and runs LinkingMatters.com. Dana is a regular conference speaker nationally and internationally and shares some great general marketing content. ! Source of some great insights through research pieces using their link building and SEO tools, Ben is a great follow. Jennifer's SugarSpun Marketing website has some great content on SEO and social media in particular. She also tweets loads of great social media tips. A regular tweeter, Ken shares loads of quality posts you'll want to look into, he also is a great source for linking building tips. B - twitter.com/mcgaffin f - facebook.com/ken.mcgaffin.7 B - twitter.com/danatodd f - facebook.com/dana.todd Q+- plus.google.com/109407907214491900800/ in - linkedin.com/in/danatodd B - twitter.com/benwills f- facebook.com/ben.wills *- plus.google.com/102540918053421814838/ in - linkedin.com/in/benwills B - twitter.com/JenniferCario f - facebook.com/jennifer.laycock *- plus.google.com/114834785042849680025/ in - linkedin.com/in/jennifercario w - sugarspunmarketing.com *- plus.google.com/101478076215910626572/ in - linkedin.com/in/kenmegaffin W - mcgaffin.com sitelab.com w - benwills.com Wildfire Digital All of the individuals on this infographic offer a great deal to the search industry, but those displaying this * icon we feel are crucial follows for their valuable and consistent content! Wildfire DIGITAL This Infographic is brought to you by the Wildfire Digital team. Wildfire Digital is an online marketing company specialising in viral campaigns and Search Engine Optimisation. wf.digital E WFDigital Q+ gplus.to/WildfireDigital in /company/wildfire-digital www.wildfire-digital.com Social Influence is taken from the score on Followerwonk. Social Following takes into account followers from multiple social media websites. Industry Interaction is taken from the number of tweets on Twitter. Acheivement Score takes into account overall acheivements and contributions within the industry. Faces are actually not true representations, they are just for fun! 回 国 日 回 E 目