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Dan Shure Consultant / Owner at Evolving SEO

Greater Boston Area

Doing SEO since 2009 - I've helped companies like Harvard Business Review, Zappos, WGBH (Boston's NPR and PBS), ButcherBox, Primal Kitchen, Ring Doorbell and more grow traffic and solve challenging SEO problems. I also host 'Experts on the Wire' a popular SEO podcast with over 800,000 lifetime downloads.

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Dan Shure • Greater Boston Area
Created 4 years ago in Sales & Marketing / Search Engine Optimization

Over 12 years of in-depth SEO experience - I can help you solve problems and quickly answer questions around several areas of SEO, including: - Traffic growth strategies - Google penalty and traffic issues - SEO Content Strategies - eCommerce issues - Challenging technical problems - Migrations, redesigns, and rebrands - Google Discover - and more! I've worked in-depth with a wide variety of sites including: - eCommerce sites of all kinds - Publishers and Content-Driven Sites - B2B Service Companies - Rating/Reviews Sites - UGC and Directory Style Sites - SaaS and Software Companies - DTC Products and Subscriptions

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Dan Shure

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Doing SEO since 2009 - I've helped companies like Harvard Business Review, Zappos, WGBH (Boston's NPR and PBS), ButcherBox, Primal Kitchen, Ring Doorbell and more grow traffic and solve challenging SEO problems. I also host 'Experts on the Wire' a popular SEO podcast with over 800,000 lifetime downloads.

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Search Engine Optimization

Over 12 years of in-depth SEO experience - I can help you solve problems and quickly answer questions around several areas of SEO, including:

- Traffic growth strategies
- Google penalty and traffic issues
- SEO Content Strategies
- eCommerce issues
- Challenging technical problems
- Migrations, redesigns, and rebrands
- Google Discover
- and more!

I've worked in-depth with a wide variety of sites including:

- eCommerce sites of all kinds
- Publishers and Content-Driven Sites
- B2B Service Companies
- Rating/Reviews Sites
- UGC and Directory Style Sites
- SaaS and Software Companies
- DTC Products and Subscriptions

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What is the best way to find an expert SEO consultant? (Not a company).

Sort of following up on some other answers here, I would stay clear of looking for a consultant via Google searches. Stick to referrals and social media. In finding a good SEO it's all about trust. Since so many can not be trusted, it's important to vet them in someway.

As far as referrals go here are some tips;

- Look up the reputable conferences such as Mozcon, SMX, SearchLove etc - look at the speaker list and start by contacting them. They will likely be too busy but they should be able to refer you to someone.

- If you know any designers, developers, CRO, UX people - ask them.

For social media, what I mean by this is - start looking around Twitter and Google Plus for SEO's that seem to have a good following, share valuable content, have a good attitude, and are generally helpful. Follow some people for 2-3 months to really get to "know" them.

I would also look at the helpfulness and quality of content published by SEO's. Their blog posts and articles will generally be indicative of the quality of work they do.

Ask for anyone you may want to contact to provide referrals of clients that you can pick up the phone and talk to.

To be honest, as an SEO consultant myself, I can attest that the WORST leads come from ... ironically ... SEO (someone Googling "seo services" and then emailing me). I wish I didn't rank #1 for "SEO Massachusetts" because this has only been a source of poor leads.

Finally, as others have mentioned Clarity does have some of the best SEO's on their netork. For example I can attest to knowing John Doherty and Nick Eubanks personally and their work and professionalism is top notch. Just look up any of their blog posts and you will see what I mean :)

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Excellent chat, lots of SEO insight

Daniel Faggella Source: Clarity

Organic traffic is up 51% since my first call with Dan. Enough said.

Kari Dahlgren Source: Clarity

This was my second call with Dan and it was well worth it, again! After our first call, organic traffic started increasing pretty rapidly, but a dozen questions popped up for me along the way. I came to Dan with my dozen questions and he gave a thorough answer for all of them. I have a feeling our organic traffic is going to sky rocket again. Highly, highly recommend!!

Kari Dahlgren Source: Clarity

Dan is definitely an expert in the field. Not only did he answer my question (which no one else on Clarity was able to answer), but he helped identify areas where we can improve our SEO. It was a huge help, and I'm sure this isn't the last call I'll do with him! Highly recommend!

Kari Dahlgren Source: Clarity

Excellent and answered everything I asked very directly.

Megan Mahoney Source: Clarity

Dan came prepared, had specific, actionable advice for me regarding organic traffic growth. Highly recommend.

Emily McCrary Source: Clarity

Dan is the man! He does an amazing job at making technical SEO sound simple and easy to understand. He gave me a lot of great strategies and a better sense of what I need to do next. This was the second time I consulted with Dan on SEO. Highly recommended!

AJ Kumar Source: Clarity

Dan came to the call prepared to discuss the issue I was having. He provided specific examples, reasons why I was seeing certain issues and how to address them. Very helpful!

Alesandra Woolley Source: Clarity

Great insight - left with tons of action to take. Already booked my next call!

Carolyn Delaney Source: Clarity

Good advice and pointers!

Carl Sabounjian Source: Clarity

Dan was super helpful. He knows his on-site technical SEO. He not only helped with my initial questions, but spotted other issues to address very quickly. We covered a ton in a short time. If you have on-site SEO questions/issues, Dan is a great guy to consult. Thanks Dan.

Jon Dykstra Source: Clarity

Member since September 2013