Category: Interviews

Interview with François Mommens – Linkody Founder

How did you get it into digital? I’ve always worked in Digital. I graduated from Polytech Nice-Sofia as a software engineer and got the chance to immediately join a small startup that had the big responsibility of developing France Telecom’s search engine. This is a forgotten fact but France Telecom …

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Interview with Gareth Simpson Co-Founder @Seeker Digital

How did you start with link building specifically Well, back in 2003 my dad handed me a book called IBP that automated directory submissions through software. I’ve been link building ever since. Obviously at first it was low quality work, but me and industry have come a long way since …

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Fernando Angulo

Interview with Fernando Angulo Head of Partnerships @Semrush

How did you start digital? What have you been doing before?  My professional life in the online world began in 2010 as a sales manager of a tourism company where I learned how to use and configure CRMs. That same year I finished my second diploma as a language teacher …

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Vlad Calus

Interview with Vlad Calus Co-founder @Planable.io

How did you enter social media world?  That’s a great question. I started my own nonprofit organisations around the age of 16 in order to solve the problems of my community and learn something new for myself. I ended up doing lots of stuff, including project management, content creation, promotion, …

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Steven Van Vessum

Interview with Steven Van Vessum from ContentKing

How did you enter the world of SEO? Back in 2005 I was building a website for a family friend and he brought up the findability of the site in Google.  I realized, I didn’t know much about it yet so I started digging into this topic and soon thereafter …

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Shulke

Interview with Anton Shulke Video Content Lead at SEMrush

How did you get in to the digital world?  Haha, long story, let’s make it short. I had a lounge bar in Valencia, SpainBut the 2008 crisis killed it, well I survive for a couple of years but had to close it down. When I was “reflexing” in Valencia, some …

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Alexz Miller

Interview with Alexz Miller from Kicksta.co

How did you get into digital? I was a marketing major at San Diego State University and started at Kicksta right after graduation as their first Account Manager. At that point, the company was still very much a “start-up” with only 3 other employees. I knew I had a passion …

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Interview with Jo Juliana Turnbull

What events are you involved with? I run Search London (https://searchldn.com/),  a networking group for those in SEO, PPC and Social Media. I took over the meetup in October 2009 from Judith Lewis and we have now had over 50 evening events with speakers from entrepreneurs, up to Google and …

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Alice Roussel

Interview with Alice Roussel from OnCrawl

How did you get into digital? What was before OnCrawl? I’ve always been interested in the digital world and how algorithms connect concepts, which is essentially what happens when a search engine has to connect a search question with the content on a URL. Before joining OnCrawl, I spent several …

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David Sayce

Interview with David Sayce SEO London Consultant

How did you start with SEO? …A long time ago in a galaxy far away…. I had a sporting goods wholesale business I had been running since 1991, It was probably around 1995 I started to look at making my own websites, and then thought about retail and eCommerce. By …

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