This week brings a warm hello and a fond goodbye within the Search Engine Land team, along with another channel to stay up to date on Google search info, the Search Engine Land Awards and more honors for the search marketing community.
Search Engine Land staff changes
Good night and good luck, Jess
Jessica Thompson has been with Search Engine Land for the past five years, as our Features Editor. She has been an incredibly valuable team member, working with our contributors and helping to shape the voice of our featured content. We will miss her dearly as she embarks on her next career move, which will be building a digital marketing agency, Prewett McCarthy Marketing. We look forward to watching her continue to grow and are thrilled she remains a colleague in our industry.
I asked Jessica to share her parting thoughts with the community:
Welcome Debra Mastaler
Debra Mastaler joins our editorial team as Features Editor, and we couldn’t be more excited to have her! Many in the industry will already be familiar with this veteran search marketer (and link building expert). Debra has been a de facto team member, as much of the community has, through her contributions to Search Engine Land, as well as through her top-notch Link Building Bootcamp sessions at our Search Marketing Expo (SMX) events every year. Join us in welcoming her officially to the Third Door Media team!
Debra seconded the emotion:
A new way to follow Google announcements
Google’s Public Liaison for Search, Danny Sullivan, has a new Twitter account where he’ll be posting updates and announcements — @searchliaison. He announced this on Twitter and recommends the community follow for updates and announcements from the search team.
https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/956999790000091136
The first explainer from the new account:
The Search Engine Land Awards are open for submissions!
Reminder: The 2018 Search Engine Land Awards are currently accepting entries (early entries close March 31, final deadline is April 13, 2018). This year’s theme is “Celebrating the Power of Search” — so flex your muscles and submit your SEO and SEM campaigns for the chance to showcase your superpowers to our industry colleagues!
Get to know your search colleagues
Barry Schwartz continues his “Honor an SEO/SEM” series at his blog, and this (and last) week’s honored nominees included: Larry Markovitz, Annie Cushing, Pierre Far, Dawn Anderson, Danny Goodwin, Bruce Clay, Akvile DeFazio, Mike Blumenthal, Susan Hallam and David Harry. Learn why these fine folks have been nominated by the community and keep up with the ongoing series here.
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