Top 25 SEO Experts You Should Have in Your Google Circles

Rand Fishkin - Moz founder; frequent traveler/blogger/speaker; passionate about all things tech & inbound marketing - CEO - Moz - Seattle, WA - Rand Fishkin is Moz's founder. He co-authored the Art of SEO from O'Reilly Media and was named on the 40 Under 40 List and 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs Under 30.

Danny Sullivan - Founding Editor, Marketing Land & Search Engine Land, covering Google, Facebook, Twitter, SEO, SEM & all things digital marketing, search marketing and search. - Founding Editor, Marketing Land & Search Engine Land - Marketing Land & Search Engine Land - Newport Beach, California - Widely considered a leading "search engine guru," Danny Sullivan has been helping webmasters, marketers and everyday web users understand how search engines work for over a decade.

Matt Cutts - I'm the head of the webspam team at Google - Software Engineer - Google - Bay Area, California - I'm the head of the webspam team at Google. That means that if you type your name into Google and get porn back, it's my fault.

Joost de Valk - WordPress / Web developer, SEO & all round geek. - CEO / WordPress developer - Yoast - Wijchen, the Netherlands - I'm an online marketeer / SEO & web developer with an addiction to WordPress, social media and blogging.

Barry Schwartz - Search Geek & CEO of RustyBrick - CEO & Search Blogger - Search Engine Roundtable - New York - Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and has covered search news for over five years.

Hey Everyone, Its Wil Reynolds, I started doing SEO in 1999 for an internet marketing company and been doing it ever since.

aaron wall - back when I got into SEO we had to build links in the snow, uphill both ways! - SEO - SEO Book - California - I am a well known SEO, considered to be an expert by some.

Avinash Kaushik - Author, Digital Marketing Evangelist - Author, Digital Marketing Evangelist. - Google Inc. - Avinash is the co-Founder of Market Motive and the Digital Marketing Evangelist for Google. Through his Digital Analytics blog, Occam's Razor, and his best selling books, Web Analytics 2.0 and Web

Matt McGee - I got your tagline right here... - Editor-In-Chief - SearchEngineLand.com - Tri-Cities, WA - Editor-In-Chief at MarketingLand.com and SearchEngineLand.com. Husband and father. U2 fan. Google Glass Explorer and creator of GlassAlmanac.com. Founder of www.atu2.com, author of 2008 book U2 - A

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Todd Malicoat - aka stuntdubl... gettin' hit by traffic...not cars - miami, fl

Eric Ward - aka LinkMoses - Content Discovery Strategist / Publicist - EricWard.com - Knoxville, TN - Eric is widely known as one of the world's top online content publicists, link building experts and linking strategists. Eric founded the Web's first link building and web promotion services, called

Bill Slawski - Interested in seo, search engines, searchers' behaviors, the future of search, music, the environment, and how the Web works.

Will Critchlow - One day I'll go into space. - Founder of Distilled - London - Will Critchlow, founder of Distilled. This is my work profile.

Ian Lurie - Internet marketing blogger. Founder and CEO, Portent, Inc., SEO and all around curmudgeon. Lover of data. Hater of buzzwords. Believes good internet marketing can save the world. - Internet Marketing - Portent Interactive - Seattle, WA - Founder and CEO of Portent, a Seattle internet marketing company.

I'm kind of a big deal!

John Doherty - Marketer | Marketing Consultant | Lifestyle and Travel Photographer | Traveler | Climber | Skier | Brooklyn - Online Marketer - HotPads.com - Brooklyn, NY - I am the online marketing manager at Hotpads.com. Formerly with Distilled in NYC. In my spare time I rock climb, take travel and lifestyle photos, and travel.

Tom Critchlow - Move. Think. Create. - Maker - Google - Brooklyn - Fiercely curious about life and passionate about learning new things. Currently Swashbucklin in Brooklyn

Richard Baxter - Founder of SEOgadget, SEO at heart. Enjoys working with his team, working in digital marketing and considering the future of web technology. Blogger, writer and contributor to SEOgadget's blog and huge F1 fan. - Digital Marketer / SEO - SEOgadget.com - London - To find out more about Richard, you can check out his blog, SEOgadget.

Cyrus Shepard - I write about SEO, Social Media, Web Strategy, Startups and Online Marketing - Senior Content Producer, SEO Consultant & Website Strategist at http://moz.com - Moz - Seattle, WA - I live in Seattle and work on the Interwebs. I work as a freelance SEO consultant, and also a paid associate of SEOmoz.

Ben Wills - CEO, Ontolo - Full Feminine - Boulder, CO - Just a guy doing his thing.

I'm an SEO specializing in content marketing/link building. I run a content marketing agency, SiegeMedia.com , based out of greater LA. My blog, RossHudgens.com , has many posts from me regarding my marketing philosophy.

Andrew Shotland - Search Marketer With Specialty in Local SEO, News SEO, Google Plus SEO & Ecommerce SEO - Search Engine Marketer - Local SEO Guide - Pleasanton, CA

Dixon Jones - I mainly help to develop businesses into new channels to market, within the online marketing community. Typically, I would have a personal stake in any business venture, but I do not necessarily need to steer the whole ship.

Gianluca Fiorelli - SEO & Web Marketer founder of IloveSEO.net. Curious, mindful, listener, emphatic, creative, well rounded, respectful - SEO and Web Marketing Consultant - Moz - Valencia - Come to life on this Earth just few months after men walked for the 1st time on the Moon.