35 SEO Social Media Expert Interviews

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35 SEO Social Media Expert Interviews

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16 07 2010

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Three of the most trusted SEO and social media experts, Rhea Drysdale, Tamar Weinberg and Lee Odden. Photo by toprankonlinemarketing.

Interviews are often overlooked pieces of distilled wisdom. They aren’t very popular on social media but they definitely should be! In interviews experts often provide the most valuable nuggets of their knowledge in a very concise form. You need to study dozens of other blog posts to learn as much.

Moreover experts often tend to focus on one aspect a time when they write something themselves, even when compiling a list like this. On the other hand interviews focus on several key questions an expert wouldn’t even attempt to cover in one blog post or seminar. These facts combined result in in a very condensed piece of advice.

Also it’s quite difficult to determine who’s a real expert and who is not in the SEO industry and even more in social media marketing.

When someone gets interviewed s/he’s either popular or an expert or both. The difficulty in compiling this list of interviews was not finding 30 of them but sorting out the less valuable ones from the dozens there are. Also I wanted to feature not only the people everybody knows already like Rand Fishkin or Matt Cutts. There are numerous interviews with them.

Some true experts hide behind an invisible persona as an inhouse SEO and/or social media expert

but really have something to say others haven’t. So I added a few of inhouse SEO expert from big enterprises.

Last but not least I couldn’t find good interview that offers deep insights with some of the brightest minds of the industry like Danny Sullivan or Barry Schwartz. There were either too short, shallow, outdated or too much focused on a specific event or topic. Add those in the comment section if you think they are must read. I repeat, I didn’t just look at the names, I solely selected those interviews that offer real insights.

OK, enough of this, follow the links below to read the interviews with some of the most renowned SEO and social media experts.

SEO experts

Inhouse SEO experts

Social Media experts

Matt Cutts and other Google employees

Business Blogging experts

To be honest: A list of interviews with experts in both SEO and social media could have been a top 100, 200 or 2000. Due to time and reader attention limitations I had to choose approx. 30 of them. Don’t think just because I haven’t included someone s/he isn’t an expert. It was a really tough choice.

I even included an interview with myself without being sure whether people consider me an expert but I was quite sure that I provided some unique insights in this interview.

So accept my apologies for not being on the list please!

Btw. how do I know who’s an expert and who is not? Difficult question. I think I’m at least expert enough by now to determine who is an expert on the subject of SEO and social media.

The interviews above have been conducted between 2008 and 2010. For hundreds of SEO & social media interviews from 2008 and earlier visit this huge list by Donna Fontenot.

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