Stephan Spencer

Stephan Spencer is author of Google Power Search and co-author of The Art of SEO , 1^st Ed. released in October 2009 and The Art of SEO, 2^nd Ed. released in March 2012. Stephan founded Netconcepts in 1995 as an interactive agency and over time it morphed into an SEO firm. Netconcepts was acquired by Covario in January 2010. Stephan left in September 2010 to start several new ventures. He is the inventor of GravityStream, a pay-for-performance SEO technology now rebranded as Covario's Organic Search Optimizer. He is a highly sought-after conference speaker on SEO and other online marketing topics for the DMA, AMA, Shop.org, Internet Retailer, SMX, SES, O'Reilly/TechWeb (Web 2.0 Expo), PubCon, Affiliate Summit, ECMOD, IQPC, and IIR, among others. His hundreds of speaking gigs have taken him around the globe, everywhere from Berlin, London, Toronto, Santiago, and Auckland to New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and places in between.

Stephan lived in New Zealand for nearly eight years, where he built a production office a block from the beach. He returned to the United States in 2007. Stephan writes for Search Engine Land, Multichannel Merchant, Practical Ecommerce, and MarketingProfs, among others. He has a master's degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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