The History of SEO: People

From the early 1990’s, website owners woke up to the idea that having highly visible sites in the search engines brought valuable business results.  In tandem, the idea of gaining higher rank, which brought higher visibility, would drive increased traffic.  These connections, tied with search engine technology, dawned the industry of SEO and some of those early birds are still helping people today.  Meet them and find out how it all began…

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Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan, renowned search guru, nonchalantly says that he was a newspaper reporter that saw the web, liked what he saw and decided to leave newspapers and start working with a friend developing websites. A humble beginning with an exceptional future... 
 

Bruce Clay

Bruce Clay, president and CEO of Bruce Clay Inc. considers himself fortunate to have participated in the formation of an industry. Bruce started his company in 1996 when he got serious and decided that this was going to be a real business. By “this” he says, there was no name...
 

Jill Whalen

In the early 90’s, Jill Whalen was a stay-at-home mom with three kids. Being an early adopter of the internet, she started a parenting chat room to connect with parents across the country. To her surprise, the chat room became so popular that she got requests daily to start a website...