25 Best Digital Marketers to Follow in 2014

Search Engine Optimization is an interesting field but most of the marketers didn’t choose it on purpose. Many search marketers come from different backgrounds but has taken this industry with a storm. They have helped in shaping the search engine marketing industry by offering awesome products or expert level guidance. There are hundreds of ideal SEO’s out there but here are some of my favorite SEO personalities:

1- Rand Fishkin (@randfish)

Rand Fishkin co-founded one of most reliable and growing software companies, MOZ. He is also the co-founder of inbound.org and one of the most reliable personalities in inbound marketing world. He is addicted to everything about social, content and Search industry. He is the originator of weekly “Whiteboard Fridays” through which he shares interesting insights with other inbound marketers.

2- Dr. Pete Meyers (@dr_pete)

As a Marketing Expert at MOZ, Dr. Pete’s liability is to make the data flawless. He’s known as marketing scientist at MOZ. Before that, Pete has worked as an expert psychologist, a programmer and so on. He is an influential figure for all digital marketers and blogs where no one has blogged before. He believes that all the ideas and plans are inadequate unless one is able to broadcast them to public and blogging is the only way to deliver those ideas.

3- Neil Patel (@neilpatel)

Neil Patel is another Seattle based entrepreneur known for his contribution in digital marketing. He has helped a variety of Fortune 500 companies that includes Samsung, Amazon, Walmart etc. He founded Crazy Egg an analytics application that can help you figure out what visitors are doing on your site by displaying heatmaps. He coaches marketers via his personal blog http://www.quicksprout.com.

4- Michael King (@iPullRank)

Michael King is one of the few who garnered considerable success in a very short span. Previously he’s worked with several Fortune 500 brands and was responsible for the SEO campaigns of LG, Citi and many other prestigious organizations. Lately King holds Inbound Marketing Director position at one of the growing content marketing agencies iAcquire. He is also one of the first-class contributors at MOZ, and Distilled.

5- Ann Smarty (@seosmarty)

Ann Smarty is one of the early adopters of guest blogging and known for his never-ending relationship building within blogosphere. She is a search marketer and works as a blogger and community manager at Internet Marketing Ninjas. Her passion includes guest blogging, SEO, content marketing strategies and tools. Ann has set up an exciting community My Blog Guest to help out all the guest bloggers in finding guest blogging opportunities all at one place.

6- Gianluca Fiorelli (@gfiorelli1)

Gianluca Fiorelli is one of the highly regarded SEO and web marketing consultant specialized in Spanish and Italian SEO.  He gained more than 10 years of experience in Search, Content and Social Media Marketing before moving to MOZ. Currently he works as a MOZ Associate and helps marketer’s community with insights.

7- Jason Acidre (@jasonacidre)

Jason Acidre is an online marketing consultant and strategist based in Philippine. He’s the CEO of Xight Interactive and commonly famous for his online marketing blog www.kaiserthesage.com. He has also been associated with Affilorama and Traffic Travis as a marketing consultant. Follow him on twitter to get exciting updates on digital marketing.

 8- Brian Dean (@Backlinko)

Brian Dean is the founder of Backlinko launched in January 2013. He quickly emerged to SEO scene by storm with years of experience in testing and implementing hundreds of SEO, content promotion strategies. He has been teaching those strategies to enterprise business and internet marketing agencies globally. Stalk him to get yourself conversant with some of the best link building strategies.

9- Ross Hudgens (@RossHudgens)

Ross Davidson is a well-known digital marketer specializing in content marketing, Link Building and SEO. He is the founder of Siege Media, a digital marketing company mainly focusing on SEO, content development and CRO. He often speaks at conferences and SEO events and can be seen at MOZ, Search Engine Journal among others.

10- Jon Cooper (@PointBlankSEO)

Jon Cooper has been a digital marketer for 3+ years now. He is an undergraduate student at the University of Florida. He holds extensive Link Building ideas and shares them often at Point Blank SEO. Jon was featured in Buyerzone’s Best Entrepreneurial Blogs & Sites of 2012. He is an outstanding contributor at MOZ and currently works as a SEO consultant.

11- Dejan SEO (@dejanseo)

Dan Petrovic is one of my favorites and a renowned Australian SEO. Dan holds a Graduate in Bachelors of Multimedia degree and MD of Dejan SEO. His contributions to SEO industry are phenomenal and can be seen assisting webmasters with search engine optimization related questions.

12- Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe)

Glenn Gabe helps a wide range of companies with their digital marketing efforts. He is an inbound marketing veteran having more than 15 years of experience. Glenn mainly writes on SEO, SEM, social media and web analytics. He is a featured author at Google Analytics Help center and a columnist at Search Engine Watch. His work can also be found at The Internet marketing Driver.

13- Jim Boykin (@jimboykin)

Jim Boykin is one of the earliest internet marketers having more than 15 years of combined experience in SEO, link building, Internet marketing. He formed We Build Pages back in 1999 and re-branded the company to Internet Marketing Ninjas. They’ve grown into a massive team of 100+ in house marketing professionals. In 2012, Internet Marketing Ninjas acquired http://www.webmasterworld.com, http://www.cre8asiteforums.com among others.

14- Jenny Halasz (@jennyhalasz)

Jenny Halasz is a SEO Consultant and she has more than a decade of experience in Digital Marketing. She is into developing content and technical strategies for clients and blog about Search industry. Jenny has worked with various top level companies that include Motorola, SAP, Humana, Four seasons and CitiBank. She speaks on major search events quite often and has written for all the major journals including Search Engine Land.

15- Jorgen Sundberg (@JorgenSundberg)

Jorgen Sundberg is a top social media consultant based in London specializing in branding, B2B marketing. Previously, he has worked as a director of Red Commerce and a certified social media trainer for APSCo. He is the founder of Link Humans, a social media marketing agency located in London.

16- Dana Lookadoo (@lookadoo)

Dana Lookadoo started her career in computing back in 1984 and got into web development and internet marketing in 1996. She specializes in SEO, Information Architecture, Content Marketing and social media marketing. She has been a conference speaker at PubCon, SMX West, MozCon and wrote several wonderful articles for publications like Search Engine Journal. She founded Yo! Yo! SEO with an aim to help businesses optimize their online presence for their targeted people.

17- Annie Cushing (@AnnieCushing)

Annie Cushing is known for her analytics skills in order to make data sexy. She is an SEO and Analytics consultant and her expertise includes analytics, technical SEO and everything related to data. She is a leading contributor at Search Engine Land and also writes her own blog, Annielytics.

18- Brooke Ballard (@madSMscientist)

Brooke Ballard is the Founder & Chief Social Strategist at B Squared Media, LLC. She has 10+ years of experience in sales, marketing, relationship management and communication. She offers in-depth knowledge on content curation, content marketing, social media marketing and shares interesting insights on her blog.

19- Ksenia Dobreva (@massaraksh_)

Ksenia Dobreva has been working in Internet Marketing for more than 4 years, combining it with IT journalism. Currently she works as an Internet Marketer at Link-assistant.com Link specializing in social media and content marketing. Ksenia also does some local SEO consulting for small biz and is an editor for several local IT resources.

20- Dawn Mentzer (@DawnMentzer)

Dawn Mentzer is a freelance writer and “Insatiable Solopreneur.” She writes for marketing firms and businesses that make well-crafted content a priority in their content marketing strategies. Her specialties include blog content, website copy, and social media content. Through her blog, Dawn offers tips and insight to small biz owners.

21- Lisa Myers (@LisaDMyers)

Lisa Myers is the Chief Executive Officer of Verve Search, A digital marketing agency founded back in 2009. She has been a part of search industry since 2005 and speaks frequently at conferences. She has also co-founded StateofSearch.com and SEO-Chicks.com. She won Search Personality of the Year – UK Search Awards in 2011 among several other recognitions.

22- Lisa Barone (@Lisabarone)

Lisa is VP of Strategy at Overit, a digital marketing company, where she serves on the senior staff overseeing the company’s brand messaging, social media and content marketing. Known internationally for creating many of the best practices and strategies for social media, Lisa works with clients to create unified, mixed-media marketing strategies that stand out and convert with targeted audiences.

23- Alessio Madeyski (@madeale)

Alessio Madeyski is a digital marketing strategist with focus on content marketing and SEO. He’s worked as a senior SEO for one of the biggest European E-commerce and runs his digital marketing blog, Alessiomadeyski. Alessio Madeyski currently works as a Client Authority Manager at Digital Hothouse Ltd.

24- Cat Fyson (@Koozai_Cat)

Cat Fyson is a content marketer working for award-winning digital agency Koozai. She has a background in journalism, social and PR. She has studied NCTJ accredited course at University and obtained skills in creative writing. Cat is a passionate blogger and she writes on various subjects including content marketing and social media.

25- Julie Joyce (@JulieJoyce)

Julie Joyce has been associated with IT since 2000. Her expertise is in programming C++, ASP.net, Java etc but she switched to search engine marketing in 2002. Before staring her own digital marketing agency, Link Fish Media, Inc she worked with a small IT firm for a few years. She regularly blogs for SearchEngineLand.com, Search Marketing Gurus, SearchEngineWatch.com and many other famous online journals.

There are a lot of notable inbound marketers and I’ll cover them up in near future. You can comment with your favorite inbound marketer below.

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Nabeel Tanveer

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Nabeel has over 6 years of web marketing experience & is the founder of Search Engine Lead, a blog covering search news and web marketing tips including SEO, PPC and conversion rate optimisation strategies.

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