Brian Dean

Brian is a Search Engine Optimization expert and founder of the Backlinko blog and YouTube channel. He has been dubbed an “SEO genius” by Entrepreneur.com, a “brilliant entrepreneur” by Inc Magazine, “the world’s foremost expert on search engine optimization” by Success Magazine and Backlinko.com, was listed by Forbes as a top “blog to follow” in 2017.

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SEO legend explains the basics and how he went from zero to $10k MRR in four months

Recent Episodes

On tuning high-traffic WP sites, creating one of the first travel podcasts & growing an all-remote consulting business

Craig Martin of Performance Foundry is one of the most long-standing partners of Pagely having helped to resolve performance bottlenecks and tune high-traffic WordPress sites. In this conversation Sean interviews […]

Turning a passion into a thriving business and bringing flower power to the world

Katie Hess converted her fascination with the healing power of flower essences into a robust business that employs an all-female team of ten women across three countries. They are bringing […]

The miracle of stem cells, lethal flying scooters and 76ers fandom.

Drew Olanoff got his start in computers at a young age moderating BBS’s. An internship for America Online kicked off a long and illustrious career working at companies like Yahoo!, […]

Optimizing your company’s culture around Mission, Values and Vision

Rahul Bansal has built rtCamp from scratch to be a hugely successful WP dev agency. We were honored to have him speak this year at PressNomics 6 on the lessons […]

On product positioning, marketing and winning a book deal from having his blog

Andy Wibbels was one of the first people to land a book deal from having a popular, early blog. He’s been in tech marketing and product since the early dotcom […]

Crashing trucks in Peru, sailing yachts in Croatia and launching a caffeinated energy bar

Francisco Dao has served as a columnist for Inc.com, founded an exclusive adventure sports retreat company for entrepreneurs, served as COO for an AI-focused incubator and is currently bringing a […]

Self-publishing a book that made $11k in its first week and becoming a public speaker

Carl Alexander found himself in a quarter-life crisis bouncing between software jobs unfulfilled and not sure how he would sustain his career for another forty years through to retirement. He […]

From humble beginnings to an award-winning ad campaign for a major ski resort

From humble beginnings on the east coast riding back mountains & tinkering with perl scripts to winning an Adweek award for his ingenious “one-star” ad campaign, Digi-Dave Amirault is a […]