Everett Sizemore

Director of SEO Innovation

Farmer of vegetables and keywords, both organic.

Everett started doing SEO in 2006 for Associated Content, now Yahoo! Voices. He moved on to an SEO Specialist position with an online marketing agency before managing the search marketing department for a major online retailer in the health and fitness space for five years. He has also worked on a network of super affiliate websites and dozens of client sites in various competitive industries before joining seOverflow.

It's funny how things work out sometimes...

In 2006 Everett noticed that there were a lot of great marketing and development companies out there that didn't have a strong SEO department. Seeing this as an opportunity to provide a much needed white label search engine optimization outsourcing service, Everett registered seOverflow.com. He was hired to manage Gaiam's SEO department shortly after, and so the website sat unused and unloved for several months.

Meanwhile, Mike Belasco, who Everett had partnered with on some SEO contracts previously, had an unused SEO domain of his own. They decided to swap domains one day, and Mike started developing seOverflow into the leading SEO outsourcing agency that it is today. As for that other domain, Everett ended up donating it to the Denver Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO), which auctioned it off at a monthly meeting to help pay administrative costs.

So here we are six years later and Everett has joined seOverflow as the Director of SEO Strategy after sharpening his skills on enterprise-level eCommerce websites and hyper-competitive niches. In the process he has gained several years of managerial experience in a corporate environment and, for an agency Director, is in a unique position to understand the needs and roadblocks faced by managers in large organizations who outsource SEO and related tasks.

Geek Stuff:

Contributing Writer - Search Engine Journal, Wolf-Howl, SEO ROI, SEMPDX, and SEOMoz.

SEOMoz Associate

2010 SEMMY Winner, Best SEO Blog Post (for this post)

Speaker at SMX, LOHAS, RMDMA, Crossroads Institute and other local, regional and national industry conferences and events.

Education:

B.A. Journalism, Bond University

Queensland, Australia

His favorite SEO problem to solve:

Anything that requires him to use both the creative and analytical sides of his brain. Everett loves delving into technical SEO issues and in-depth site audits, but also enjoys working on the messaging and social side of inbound marketing.

Random fact about Everett:

He lives on a 38-acre farm in the rural mountains of southwestern Virginia. The nearest town, 15-minutes away on winding backroads, has one stoplight.

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