Stephan Spencer

Stephan Spencer is an internationally recognized SEO expert, Internet entrepreneur, sought-after professional speaker, and bestselling author. He is the author of Google Power Search and coauthor of The Art of SEO and of Social eCommerce, all publshed by O'Reilly. He is the host of the podcasts Marketing Speak and The Optimized Geek. Stephan produces and presents the 3-day training intensives Traffic Control and Passions into Profits. He is producing a video-based SEO training and coaching program at ScienceOfSEO.com.

Stephan founded the interactive agency Netconcepts in 1995 and grew it into a multinational SEO firm, with dozens of staff in each of its U.S., New Zealand and China offices. Stephan invented a pay-per-click SEO technology called GravityStream which contributed millions annually to the bottom line; indeed the technology was responsible for the majority of Netconcepts' revenue. Netconcepts was acquired in 2010 by Covario. Covario was in turn acquired by the multi-billion dollar ad agency conglomerate Dentsu Aegis in 2014. Stephan's clients since the acquisition have included Zappos, Sony, Chanel, Quiksilver, Bed Bath & Beyond, Best Buy Canada, Fluor, CNBC, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Despegar, and IEEE, among others.

Stephan has spoken at hundreds of Internet marketing events, including all the major conferences in the search and ecommerce industries (SES, SMX, PubCon, Internet Retailer, Shop.org, eTail, etc.). He's been a contributor to Search Engine Land, the Huffington Post, Multichannel Merchant, Practical Ecommerce, DM News, and MarketingProfs, to name a few. Stephan is an avid blogger. He blogs at StephanSpencer.com, ScienceOfSEO.com, NaturalSearchBlog.com, BusinessBlogConsulting.com, and ChangesForGood.org.

Stephan is on the board of Impact Network, a nonprofit that builds and operates schools in Zambia. Stephan holds an M.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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