30 Must Follow SEO Twitter Users


By on May 29, 2009 in seo, social media, twitter with 31 Comments

Instead of the regular Twitter Friday column this time we’ll feed two birds with one piece of bread: This time we’re listing 30 Must Follow SEO Twitter Users.

Take note that not all of these Twitter users are SEOs or even search marketers.

Some people are more into social media (marketing), business blogging and the likes. In a way it’s a list for people interested in SEO who want to know who to follow on Twitter. It’s by far not complete. The contrary is the case. Also this list is not a Twitter SEO celebrity list.

It doesn’t make sense to follow the well known SEO industry leaders or rather it only makes sense to some extent. Twitter is no RSS reader. You join Twitter to network.

There is no social netlurking.

You want to engage in conversation or even better interaction. You aim to get people

  • to visit your blog
  • click your links
  • retweet them.

You can’t do that as a lurker. So you need to follow those who are both authorities and active themselves. So I tried to compile a list of Twitter SEO users and beyond who are the best possible mix of

  • activity
  • authority
  • social skills

You get mavens and connectors and sometimes both at once.

By now you probably know and follow Danny Sullivan (dannysullivan), Matt Cutts (mattcutts) and Reg Saddler (zaibatsu)

Now also consider following these people:

  1. Lee Odden (leeodden)
  2. Barry Schwartz (rustybrick)
  3. Gerald Weber (the_gman)
  4. Rishi Lakhani (rishil)
  5. fantomaster (fantomaster)
  6. Derek Edmond (DerekEdmond) on Twitter
  7. Ruud Hein (RuudHein)
  8. Ann Smarty (seosmarty)
  9. Lyndon Antcliff (lyndoman)
  10. David Leonhardt (amabaie)
  11. Matt McGee (mattmcgee)
  12. Adrienne Doss (seowoman)
  13. Andy Beard (AndyBeard)
  14. Alysson (SEOAly)
  15. Mark Edmondson (GuavaMarkeD)
  16. Mr Ingo Bousa (supaswag)
  17. Brent D. Payne (BrentDPayne)
  18. Cristian Vasile (cristianvasile)
  19. Wiep (wiep)
  20. JamesDuthie (JamesDuthie)
  21. Mani Karthik (ManiKarthik)
  22. Alex Juel (SEOHolicc)
  23. Saurav Verma (SauravVerma)
  24. Casie Gillette (Casieg)

These Twitter users probably would cringe at being called “SEO” so I recommend them for SEO practitioners for other reasons.

  1. Roger Byrne (styletime) on Twitter
  2. Brent Csutoras (BrentCsutoras) on Twitter
  3. Stuartcfoster (Stuartcfoster) on Twitter
  4. Avi Joseph אבי יוסף (Avinio) on Twitter
  5. kyleplacy (kyleplacy) on Twitter
  6. remarkablogger (remarkablogger) on Twitter

This is not even a official SEOptimise list. It’s mine. It’s based on more than a year Twitter experience and beyond of Tad Chef, your SEOptimise blog author.

So you’ll miss some well known names on the list. Instead you’ll notice many names you’ve never have heard of. These people often can help you much more than the uber-busy industry leaders. It’s a list of high valuable users. They’re my friends so respect them.

Also I omitted most of my friends so don’t be angry at me if you happen to be one of them! In the recent days I followed some industry figures I forgot to follow before compiling the list so in some cases I didn’t have enough time to assess whether they are truly active on Twitter.

Last but not least: I did not include the SEOptimise staff and myself to prevent bias. In case you do not follow us already you can at

For more marketers to follow make sure to check these two lists as well:

SEO 2.0 living and working in Germany as a blog & SEO consultant. I'm blogging in English for SEO blogs around the world. My real name is Tadeusz Szewczyk but my friends who don't speak Polish - my mother tongue - call me Tad Chef or onreact.

31 Comments

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  1. Markus says:
    May 29, 2009 at 9:55 pm ·

    Thanks for this awesome list of tweeps, now I do follow about 25 more of them… :-)

  2. Alysson says:
    May 29, 2009 at 10:56 pm ·

    I’m honored to be included on your list, Tad. :)

  3. Stuart Foster says:
    May 30, 2009 at 1:44 am ·

    Haha, I definitely wouldn’t cringe. SEO just isn’t my primary focus. I do know my way around the dofollow world though. Pretty cool honor to be included here Tad, thanks! :)

  4. venkat says:
    May 30, 2009 at 3:39 am ·

    hope I will follow at least one of them to gain seo knowledge

  5. Robert Visser says:
    May 30, 2009 at 4:21 am ·

    Tad, Hi. Thanks for this list as well as the 25 SEO Gurus. I’d start a list of additions with Edward Lewis @pageoneresults, Vanessa Fox @vanessafox, and Bonnie Burns @Burnsie_SEO. Aaron Wall @aaronwall (SEOBook.com), Rand Fishkin @randfish (SEOMoz.com), and Bruce Clay @BruceClayInc (Bruce Clay, Inc.) all have staff members who tweet frequently. There are many of us and we’re building a strong Twitter community.

  6. James Duthie says:
    May 30, 2009 at 8:30 am ·

    Honoured and humbled to be included on your list Tad, especially amongst such illustrious company.

  7. rishil says:
    May 30, 2009 at 4:16 pm ·

    ummm Tad – I wole up with 50 new followers :) I must thank you and am really honoured to be among these names.

  8. John John says:
    May 30, 2009 at 4:52 pm ·

    Tad thanks for the comprensive and long list. It could surely assist me with the Twitter community I’m building. Twitter has really been of great assistance to us all. and as http://www.bluechipmarketingtips.com says it: “Using it carefully means you can gain a lot of very useful publicity.” Thanks to Travel HQR for getting me to know this blog community.

  9. Gerald Weber says:
    May 31, 2009 at 4:42 am ·

    I just came across this Sphinn.

    Wow! I’m so flattered that I made the list. I appreciate the vote of confidence.

    :-)

  10. Tony V. says:
    May 31, 2009 at 5:11 am ·

    Thanks for the great list on SEO Twitter users. I now have to login into Twitter and start following some new people!

  11. Bonnie Burns says:
    May 31, 2009 at 5:56 am ·

    I didn’t make your list. But one comment by Robert V did add my name as a suggestion as well as some other very distinguished long time seo professionals. Being listed with them was a huge honor for me. Thanks Robert!!

  12. tweetr says:
    May 31, 2009 at 6:54 am ·

    I can recomment @ffvip and @rt_help on twitter, there were helpful the most current follow friday!

  13. Dave johnson says:
    May 31, 2009 at 2:02 pm ·

    Nice list, they quite alot of them on that list, I think I will follow half for now and see how it goes from there :)

    Thanks for the blog post.

  14. Derek Edmond says:
    May 31, 2009 at 2:39 pm ·

    Tad – Thanks so much for including my name to this list. Honored to be added with such others and it is very much appreciated!

  15. Mani Karthik says:
    May 31, 2009 at 6:28 pm ·

    Thanks for the mention Tad. The list is quite useful.

    Cheers !

  16. peaberryjo says:
    May 31, 2009 at 10:51 pm ·

    Very informative piece. Had been mystified as to the effacacy of “cyber-chatter”, but I know it is an absolute business tool.

  17. Casie Gillette says:
    June 1, 2009 at 12:42 am ·

    Wow…seriously…thanks for the include on this list! Good group to be included in and a few people I need to check out.

  18. Jerry Okorie says:
    June 1, 2009 at 10:58 am ·

    Great minds think alike. I should have beenin that list,sorry guys maybe next time. you can still follow my twitter @ http://twitter.com/jerryokorie

  19. supaswag says:
    June 1, 2009 at 11:08 am ·

    Thanks for the mention Tad! Very much appreciated ..now I have to post something interesting about SEO on Twitter ; )

  21. MIchael says:
    June 12, 2009 at 2:27 pm ·

    Thanks for putting together this list. It is a pretty handy way to find all of the SEO folk on Twitter. Going through and following as we speak.

    please follow me @simplycast

  22. Sign up Bonuses says:
    August 27, 2009 at 4:42 am ·

    Thanks for that list of high end Twitter users. I’m definitely going to take a closer look at it and start following a bunch of them.

  23. Brett says:
    September 13, 2009 at 6:29 pm ·

    Love the list. I will for sure make use of listening to these industry leaders.

    Thanks you saved me a lot of time.

    Brett

  24. Acne says:
    September 23, 2009 at 5:27 am ·

    I never use twister. Can anyone explain it to me?

  25. Afzal Khan says:
    September 23, 2009 at 12:57 pm ·

    Thanks for sharing this great list, most of them are already in my Twitter radar list and those who were not I’ll follow them.

    Between I noticed Rishil Lakhani (@rishil) Twitter account is been suspended (http://twitter.com/suspended). What ab’t having new name out there, you can consider mine (@afzee) :-) juzz kidding….

  26. SEOWebHelp says:
    January 17, 2010 at 9:34 pm ·

    Nice list. I think everyone listed there follows me. :)

  27. Phil says:
    January 22, 2010 at 12:22 am ·

    I just went through the entire list and checked each of these tweeps timelines. Most offer little of value to anyone interested in SEO, and a few are a complete waste of time. The best ones offer 2-5 tweets per 20 that have any SEO relevancy. The majority of tweets are personal fluff messages, links to interesting stuff that has s nothing to do with SEO, etc. I found 2 worth following for real SEO tips, ideas and information. Maybe you’ll have better luck. Does anyone actually check into these before writing the “Thanks for the great list!” comment?

  28. Jag says:
    March 10, 2010 at 1:29 pm ·

    Good list, seems like few others are missed.

  29. Alex says:
    April 3, 2010 at 9:00 am ·

    Thanks for that list, let’s see what we can learn from these people!

  30. ratul stuart says:
    October 22, 2011 at 3:37 pm ·

    wanna see visual graph of what the most popular tweets about a subject rate,please take a look at http://labs.windward.net/.It will provide you very clear picture of the tweets trends against a word or phrase

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