Former Director of SEO Strategy
Everett works closely with the SEO team, and across departments, to inform processes and best practices around search engine optimization and eCommerce marketing.
In 2001, at the age of 24, Sizemore started his first eCommerce store, which financed his way through college.
A graduate of Bond University in Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism, Sizemore found his way into SEO by way of online copywriting. His first SEO client, Associated Content, was sold to Yahoo! for more than $100-million, which eventually became Yahoo! Voices.
As the former manager of Gaiam’s SEO department, his experience working in a corporate setting gives Everett an understanding of the challenges marketing decision-makers face in organizations that outsource SEO and related tasks.
Sizemore has been a speaker at Search Marketing Expo (SMX Advanced, SMX East and SMX Milan), The Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability conference (LOHAS), Rocky Mountain Direct Marketing Association (RMDMA), Confluence and MozTalk Denver. He was also a guest lecturer for an internet marketing class at the University of Denver in 2008 and 2009.
He has written for Search Engine Journal, Moz.com, SEO ROI, Website Magazine and many other industry publications — and has been a Moz Associate since 2010.
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I had the opportunity to take a new crawler out on a test run. It’s called Sitebulb, and was developed by the URL Profiler team, which is another SEO tool that we use often for Content Audits and Technical SEO Audits. Here’s a quick video showing key features of the new tool: We’ll continue to Read More
You may have heard the phrase “weak snippet” used lately in SEO circles. I heard it the first time from Rob Bucci at MozCon last year. Here is the slide deck. But before discussing “weak” snippets, it may help to quickly recap what a featured “snippet” is in the first place. What is a Read More
First of all, we have a new website, so please check it out! It’s responsive. And adaptive. And sometimes dynamic. TL;DR Going adaptive has allowed us to solve a few important problems, like customizing the user experience by device type and paving the way for a faster mobile site. It has also introduced new complexities, such as Vary Read More
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How and Why to Put the Horse Before Your Cart An eCommerce brand’s email list is often the workhorse of recurring sales. Only attempting to acquire an email address once a visitor completes a purchase is “putting the cart before the horse,” as they say. The average eCommerce site conversion rate is somewhere between 1.4 Read More
Knowledge Graph Optimization (KGO) allows you to control more of the first-page real estate within Google search results for branded searches, and can be perceived by searchers as adding legitimacy and trust to your brand. Also, by defining and connecting entities with machine-readable schemas, you’d be helping the next generation of computers learn more about Read More
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