My name is Gabriel Goldenberg and SEO ROI Services is my search marketing company. Let me tell you my story and I promise you’ll find your questions answered.

Before I begin, I just want to point out the subpages available from the left-hand navigation, below the big blue boxes. For example, how how SEO ROI Services is different from the competition, or people I frequently work with.

I got into SEO by accident. When I turned 18 in 2005 and wanted to impact the federal election, I created a blog to promote my opinions and ranked for my keywords within 4 months. I was hooked.

With the passing of time, I started working on other people’s sites and had even more work offered to me. Here’s a short list of some highlights along the way, in roughly chronological order:

1. The first site I worked on was Website Auction Hub. I ranked it for “Established Sites for Sales” “Turnkey Websites for sale” and similar phrases.
2. I ranked the Hotel de Paris, a Montreal hotel, for a number of short-tail and medium-tail terms and tripled year-over-year online sales in the process.
3. Microsoft offered me a position on its SEM team, for 70K-80K/year, plus 10-20% in stock options etc. I was 19.
4. I ranked a product site of LaughingBird Software within 2 months of getting them their first link.
5. I spoke at SMX West. February 2008.
6. Matt Cutts - Google’s search algorithms chief - called SEO ROI Services a “high quality” site, and recognized me as the second person to notice a new form of crawling.
7. La Presse, Montreal’s biggest French-language daily newspaper, profiled Emile Girard and I in a story on young entrepreneurs (PDF, opens in new tab).
8. Ice.com, an online jewelry store, becomes a client along with its sister site, Diamond.com. This was also a great learning opportunity, as I learned to use some enterprise marketing software.
9. I spoke at SMX Advanced. June 2008.
10. Jim Boykin and We Build Pages - an elite SEO shop - offered me a job. August 2008.

I continue to develop my expertise by reading voraciously, and developing new ideas and research.

Guest articles I’ve written or contributed to (not comprehensive):

• Three Approaches to Poor Mans’ Retargeting, for Search Engine Journal
• How to be creative, for Graywolf’s SEO blog
• Local Search Ranking Factors, for David Mihm’s Mihmeorandom
• General Linkbait article for Pandia
• Four Free linkbait ideas for Huomah
• My numerous SEOmoz articles
• Branded search ROI at Brand Curve
• When Blackhat SEO is unethical - and when it isn’t
• Social Media Traffic: Niche vs General Networks on Techipedia
• How to Find Out If Your Affiliate Manager is Indiscreet
• Search engine reputation management for Brand Curve

Some interviews I’ve given:

• Alain McKenna wrote about me for Montreal’s main French-language newspaper, La Presse
• A few interviews have gone up at About.com and at Winning the Web
• Filmed a segment for Web Pro News about buying websites
• Shared some local SEO tips on SEOmoz’s Whiteboard Friday - Give It Up Edition

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