Jessica Bowman, a contributing columnist at Search Engine Journal and long time advocate for In-House SEO, just emailed to let me know that she has been hired by Yahoo! as their new In-House SEO Evangelist. Ms. Bowman’s duties will include working with the business side of Yahoo! and with the in-house SEOs that work on all of the Yahoo! properties.
I’m happy to announce that I’m joining Yahoo! in late October to work as an in-house SEO evangelist. The official title is “Sr. Technical Marketing Manager”, but the gist of the position is working with all of the in-house SEOs that optimize the various Yahoo! properties, such as Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Autos.
What made me join? Perhaps it was the grueling 11 interviews I had in one single day! Nope, actually it was the purple blow-up sofas they had on the lawn to watch the lunch-time concert. :D
Actually, it’s my dream job – I love to talk about search marketing within a company and watch the “ah-ha” moments that people have when they suddenly get how SEO works and what it can do to the bottom line. That’s exactly what I will be doing, most of the time. It turned out to be a position that uses all of the in-house skills that I talk and write about. I couldn’t walk away from the opportunity.
Big congratulations to Jessica, who formerly was the head of SEO for Business.com and runs her own blog at SEM In-House. What an uber-search job for an SEO, doing the in-house search engine optimization for a search company like Yahoo!
Congrats Jessica! You’re in very good company. :)
Cool! Congrats Jessica!
Amazing. Wonder why she’s jumping ship from Business.com?
Or did R.H. Donnelley go in another direction?
Either way Im sure Jessica we’ll do fine at yahoo.
Congratulations Jessica!
If you get around to meet the Yahoo! marketing execs, explain them how blogs work. Some of them over there seem to have little to no understanding of that matter , no joke. :-|
Cheers!
Congratulations Jessica, Well done.
Congratulations Jessica, that’s awesome!! Will you still contribute to SEJ or are you officially on lock down?
Thank you for all the congrats and well wishes!
Loren – we need to pick a better photo!
Ken – Why did I leave? Because it’s my dream job – to talk to people about SEO throughout the company. No other reason. I wasn’t looking for a new job, but the position came up and was too good to pass.
useless SEO person, doesnt know much about anything technical.