Dori Friend - Dori pioneered the SEO personal blog network and Google algorithm reverse engineering technologies, creating and releasing software tools and education products to manage both. She has owned, developed and utilized over 22,000 websites in her own networks. If you want to rank and convert then Dori just might be a great person to know :-).

She recently married the partner of her dreams. When they are not hanging out at the ranch with their 11 horses, 7 dogs, Harley the Pig and Lucy the Goat you might catch them traveling the world or bump into them at a tech conference.

Kyle Roof - Kyle is an SEO researcher and analyst. Tired of SEO based on opinion and unorganized experimentation on live sites, Kyle began developing techniques that apply analytical reasoning and scientific methods in an effort to find SEO that actually works.

This means he knows his shit.

The testing principles that Kyle has developed started with a Bachelor’s in Psychology focusing on experiments and research and continuing through the rigors of earning a Juris Doctorate from The Pennsylvania State University. In the pursuit of test based SEO, Kyle has developed a keyword strength algorithm, an on page optimization rate, and a WordPress SEO plugin.

Kyle is an avid world traveler, living in South Korea for five years. When Kyle isn’t developing SEO tests, he spends time with his family in Phoenix, Arizona.

Bill Hartzer - Bill is an independent SEO Consultant. He relies on his 20 years of direct SEO experience to provide technical SEO audits of websites, as well as technical link audits and link cleanups of websites. He is known worldwide for his research on the topic of search engine optimization and the New gTLD domain names, as well as Dot Brand domain names. He provides research and marketing of white papers and case studies related to the New gTLDs, as well as consulting related to domain migrations.

Bill is a frequent speaker and expert discussion panel participant at various search engine marketing and internet marketing conferences and events such as the SMX and the PubCon conferences. Bill writes frequently for Practical eCommerce magazine, Rocks Digital, and is regularly published in many other online publications. He maintains a blog on his website, www.BillHartzer.com, and is the co-founder of the Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association. He is a current US Brand Ambassador for Majestic.com, and an Ambassador for OnCrawl.com.

Holly Starks - Holly is a leader in the Video Marketing Industry. She has live streams over 3.5 million video's per year, had close to 150,000 Youtube Accounts, and in some circles has been dubbed 'The Youtube Queen'. Holly is renowned as both an online and offline marketer and hosts several live events through out the year helping other marketers reach their full potential in Video Marketing. She is an industry favorite and has garnered the attention and respect of the top video marketers online. Holly has also created 5 tools and has released 4 courses that have been very successful and has helped propel her to internet stardom.

Clint Butler - As a Digital Marketing & SEO specialist, Clint has educated hundreds of Entrepreneurs, Freelancers, Agency owners, and Business Professionals on how to get REAL results from SEO, social media marketing, and video marketing. He has been quoted as a topic expert in major publications and other digital marketing websites.

Derek Booth - Born and brought up in Wigan, Lancashire, Derek has specialized in internet marketing for more than seventeen years – almost since the discipline began. After working as a computer programmer, he moved into developing and building websites. He then progressed into optimizing websites, which led him to develop expertise in areas of online marketing including SEO (search engine optimization), pay per click advertising, social media and affiliate marketing.

The level of his knowledge and experience gained over so many years means that Derek takes an holistic, strategic approach to client work.

Clients he has successfully worked for include national retailers, financial companies, banks, worldwide travel companies, property investment, local businesses and virtual businesses.

Derek is a Google Adwords Professional and has PASCAL programming certificates. At Outwrite, Derek contributes to online marketing and PR strategy. This includes directing and in some cases implementing optimization and social media policies and tactics. He also advises clients about improvements to their websites, sometimes working with the client’s web builders, to direct improvements and additions to client sites.

Brian Hong - Brian got his first taste of SEO in 2002 when he was first introduced to Affiliate Marketing. Years later (2005) he moved up in the Food Chain and launched his own Supplement Company and grew a supporting team of 300 affiliates to promote the Hoodia Gordonii Diet Pill. This money train ended when the market became saturated and the buzz of Hoodia started to die down.

So in 2008, Brian went off and applied to local companies offering entry level SEO positions with the hopes of climbing the corporate ladder. Upon being rejected by all of them, he decided to start his own Digital Marketing Agency.

Today, Brian’s growing team of 13 has been instrumental in expanding their services and revenue streams outside of Client SEO into PPL, Rank & Rent, Guest Post Outreach, and Joint Ventures with companies across the USA.

Ted Kubaitis - Ted has over 22 years of web development and online marketing experience.

Ted will be showing how he does Competitive Analysis on steroids and consistently shocks people with his knowledge gained from his Automatic SEO Correlation software and how FAST he can determine the best SEO ranking factors in any niche! Plug in any keyword and Ted can tell what it takes to rank in a few minutes.

Stephen Grealy - Stephen is an Aussie that has been doing SEO for 15 years and SEM for 9 years. He has worked in most industries and specializes in the Finance sector and Ecommerce. He also consults on CRO, landing pages and project managers complete end to end Web solutions including automated sales activation - a great all rounder.

Stephen does many of the Meetup groups in his area in Australia and is well known to be the SEO Consultant’s consultant. If you can’t get something to move Stephen is the guy to call.

ERock: ERock (Eric) is an SEO with many years experience and notoriety in numerous SEO circles including Dori Friend's group, and SEONitro. ERock has presented at numerous conference including SEO Rockstars. He has his numerous GOOGLE HACKS that 99% of other SEOs do not know even exist, including his Google Map hack, some Facebook hacks, and some awesome Google auto-suggest hacks!

Bradley Benner - Bradley started his career in SEO in 2010 with local lead generation for contractors and then founded a local consulting agency in 2012. After building a team of virtual assistants and outsourcing the bulk of his agency's work, in 2014 he founded Semantic Mastery, an SEO and digital marketing training agency, with four other partners and has been sharing online business building strategies ever since.

In 2016, Bradley and Semantic Mastery partnered with a software development company to launch a digital marketing marketplace known as SERP Space. Combined, Semantic Mastery and SERP Space employ over 25 people full-time all over the world.

Vaibhav Kakkar - 700 Current SEO Clients

Creator of RankWatch- an SAAS SEO software with 1000's of paying customers. Has successfully excited an SEO Agency- (SEO Next now called Digital Next)

Proud SEO Moment: Moving his sites from 2k daily visitors to 100k daily visitors

Jason Wright - Jason is a keynote speaker who has spoken at conferences and events across the country including SEO Rockstar’s as the local master. He has been successful at dominating local business rankings for dental practices, law firms, auto repair shops, beauty salons, and more!

Jeff Lenney - Jeff has become a lethal weapon with SEO and Launch Jacking. Starting with Launch Jacking via YouTube videos, he moved on to blogging and pairing SEO with his blogs. Jeff says this has been his biggest and best year to date.

His latest launch jack generated (in 2 weeks) more than double what he used to make as an IT guy (in an entire year); not bad for a junior college dropout (Jeff’s words). Now 39, Lenney says, “I never went to college, but my mom is still proud of me!” Jeff lives in Southern California with his wife and newborn son.