Back in March of this year Michael Dorausch was the first to kick of our ongoing series of guest post blogs. We did so not only to broaden the scope of the content available on our site but also, tacky sounding or not, to build a larger connection with the SEO world.
Last week behind the scenes we started to make preparations to deepen that relation with the SEO world and to help those interested in our industry to get some of the best, smartest, wittiest information available out there.
It's almost a case of personal pride to be allowed to be the one chosen to announce the names of our new contributors. Yes, you read that right; not guest posters -- no, contributors.
In no particular order:
Donna Fontenot
Donna Fontenot, aka DazzlinDonna, is an ebusiness coach who talks and teaches from first hand experience.
She practices and preaches no-nonsense SEO. She smart, witty and *s*p*a*r*k*l*i*n*g*. (Disclosure: both Donna and I are moderators at Cre8asite Forums)
Melanie Nathan
Melanie Nathan, a.k.a. status_girl, handles SEO and related matters for the Edmonton web development company STATUSfirm. She's one of the smartest link builders I know, taking her time to go beyond simple dump & drop links.
Ann Smarty
Ann Smarty is one of the best SEO resource bloggers I know of at the moment.
Her resource posts are always real helpful, easy to digest, concise. She's never too shy to share good information.
Todd Mintz
Todd Mintz, founder and board member of Portlands Search Engine Marketing Association: SEMpdx.
Todd too is a straight shooter as witnessed in his guest post ADD: The AID Of SEO, right here on Search Engine People.
Dave Snyder
Dave Snyder is the co-founder of Search & Social (see below).
David is smart in a "keep it real" way that I really appreciate. See for example Figure out what your job is already!
Jordan Kasteler
Jordan Kasteler is the other part of Search & Social.
Jordan is young and energetic, bringing to the SEO community and his posts a refreshing speed and view.
Brian Carter
Brian Carter does everything SEO for Fuel Interactive.
He's a frequent blogger, prolific on Twitter and an all around good guy.
Contributing Monday
And there you have it!
Our initial aim is to hear a different view from the trenches every Monday. Meanwhile we keep on looking for additional contributors and other ways to build out our SEO community involvement.
To the new contributors: welcome and thank you!
A few from ScarySEO! Grats boys & gals.
It’s an honor. Thank you, Ruud.
I’m honored to be in such excellent company. I’ll try not to disappoint! Congratulations to all the new contributors 🙂
Thank you Donna, Melanie, Ann, Todd, Dave, Jordan, and Brian. What an honour to have you all posting here!
Hi Ruud,
Rogneruud here. 🙂
Thanks for your post – and I agree – a killer team addition here. Good to meet you on Twitter as well! Cheers, Jon
Thank’s for your information. Congratulations to all the new contributors
Hi Guys,
Congrats and thanks for putting those brilliant articles.
Thank to you all, hope all contributors provide more great content and tips.
Congratulations and worm welcome to new contributors. It’s looks like we will have even more quality posts to read here 🙂
Wow, what a lineup! I see you’ve got Donna leading off and Todd batting cleanup, d’oh baseball season is over. Looking forward to the contributors contributions.
Interesting line up. I’ll be reading and learning from this group.
Excellent list of new poeple! You scored getting Ann on board…her link building posts are the cream of the crop! Also cool to see Dave Snyder here as well. Keep up the good work SEP!
Looks like SEP blog will be bringing us a larger variety of SEO views from these 7 contributors. Looking forward to that.
Rif Chia
This is great news, i guess i need to sign up for the rss feed. I am always looking for good information to broaden my knowledge base.
Do you plan on adding Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz? He will be a good addition to the team.
@Charles At this time the business engagements of SEP and SEOMoz don’t leave a lot of time for either to go that route.