{"id":28849,"date":"2013-10-30T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/?p=28849"},"modified":"2019-07-08T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T17:30:05","slug":"bruce-clay-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/bruce-clay-lifetime-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know Bruce Clay — Lifetime Achievement Award Illuminates a Long History in Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cToday\u2019s thought leaders were influenced by him,\u201d Mark Knowles said about The History of SEO advisory board’s criteria when looking for a major SEO influencer and leader. The clear choice was Internet marketing veteran Bruce Clay.<\/i><\/p>\n

Fondly known to the search marketing industry as a founding father of SEO<\/a>, Bruce received the Lifetime Achievement Award of Excellence in Vision, Execution and Market Influence in the Practice of Search Marketing. As founder and president of Bruce Clay, Inc., a global Internet marketing agency founded in 1996, he accepted the honor earlier this month at the annual digital marketing conference Bend WebCAM in Bend, Oregon.<\/p>\n

Everyone who works with Bruce knows a man whose passion for the business of SEO runs the full spectrum. Bruce gets a thrill from the technical workings of algorithms and the science of gaining rankings. Bruce has a knack for listening to the stories of business owners and matching their needs to creative solutions. Bruce is a people person energized by the larger-than-life personalities that fill industry gatherings — his own to be counted among them. And every person who has ever worked at Bruce Clay, Inc.<\/a> knows that Bruce cares for employees like family and takes a deep and genuine interest in supporting their personal and professional success. <\/p>\n

Bruce Clay SEO Milestones<\/h2>\n

1996 – Started his Internet marketing agency, Bruce Clay, Inc. out of his house
\n1998 – Welcomes Google to the search party
\n1999 – He was a speaker at the very first Search Engine Strategies
\n2000 – Company moved out of his house and started first SEO training classes
\n2001 – Developed the first SEO Code of Ethics
\n2002 – Introduced and invented siloing, a website architecture hierarchy
\n2004 – Published first company blog and SEO newsletter
\n2007 – Opened offices in South Africa, Australia and the UK
\n2008 – Makes the Inc 5000 list of fastest growing company in the U.S.
\n2009 – Bruce Clay, Inc. opened an office in India and became the official SEO training course for several national and international Internet marketing conferences
\n2010 – SEOToolSet version 5 released, more than 1000 people received training from Bruce Clay, Inc.
\n2011 – Opened an office in Brazil
\n2012 – Inc 5000 lists Bruce Clay, Inc. for the sixth year in a row
\n2013 – Bruce Clay is honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Search Marketing from the History of SEO advisory board<\/p>\n

Impressive Accomplishments Before and Since SEO<\/h2>\n

If you ask Bruce Clay, SEO is not a job, it\u2019s a way of life. But before the World Wide Web and Internet marketing, you could find Clay at the intersection of computer science, networking and operating systems, even implementing the first touchscreen networks into the restaurant industry. Today he is known as the CEO of SEO and travels the world training C-suite executives and search marketing professionals on SEO best practices.<\/p>\n

Mark Knowles, chair of the History of SEO advisory board that selected Clay, revealed that selecting Clay was an \u201ceasy decision,\u201d calling him a \u201clegendary pioneer.\u201d When determining the Lifetime Achievement Award winner, the advisory board looks for someone who has impacted the SEO industry from the start, Knowles said, and that Clay has contributed significantly to the SEO industry\u2019s growth and development.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s thought leaders were influenced by him,\u201d Knowles said.<\/p>\n

\"Bruce<\/a>
Bruce Clay is recognized for his contribution to the SEO industry\u2019s growth and development with a lifetime achievement award from the History of SEO advisory board. Photo by Timothy Park http:\/\/www.timothypark.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clay called this award a \u201cmajor event in the history of Bruce Clay, Inc.\u201d and said \u201cIt is definitely an honor to receive any award for service to the industry. I have always tried to contribute either through the website, training, event speaking, and frequent free advice. Being available, approachable and involved is clearly appreciated by colleagues, and it is really nice that my efforts have been broadly appreciated. I am truly excited that I have joined the few that have already received this prestigious award.\u201d<\/p>\n

Past recipients of this award include Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land editor-in-chief, and John Audette, senior vice president of the Internet marketing company Rimm-Kaufman Group (formerly AudetteMedia).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fondly known to the search marketing industry as a founding father of SEO, Bruce received the Lifetime Achievement Award of Excellence in Vision, Execution and Market Influence in the Practice of Search Marketing. As founder and president of Bruce Clay, Inc., a global Internet marketing agency founded in 1996, he accepted the honor earlier this month at the annual digital marketing conference Bend WebCAM in Bend, Oregon.<\/p>\n

Everyone who works with Bruce knows a man whose passion for the business of SEO runs the full spectrum. Bruce gets a thrill from the technical workings of algorithms and the science of gaining rankings. Bruce has a knack for listening to the stories of business owners and matching their needs to creative solutions. Bruce is a people person energized by the larger-than-life personalities that fill industry gatherings — his own to be counted among them. And every person who has ever worked at Bruce Clay, Inc. knows that Bruce cares for employees like family and takes a deep and genuine interest in supporting their personal and professional success. And so we compiled a slideshow to showcase some of Bruce’s personal side.<\/p>\n

Get to know Bruce Clay, a guy who cares about SEO and employees, an industry pioneer. 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