Top SEO Experts in the USA Ranked

Brian Kato has been doing search and digital marketing in the United States since 2010, and founded Fusion Vine to deliver it. His local SEO work is about business visibility and ranking, backed by keyword research and performance analysis rather than assertion. He brings PPC in alongside organic where the acquisition problem needs both. Website development and client management are part of the same practice. He has presented at advanced industry events including SearchCon Advanced SEO.

Mike King is an SEO strategist and enterprise search consultant whose clients have included American Express, SAP and HSBC. He connects organic strategy to audience segmentation and outcomes you can measure across finance, retail, SaaS and ecommerce, and iPullRank cites more than $4B in incremental revenue generated for global brands. A two time Search Marketer of the Year, he speaks at US conferences including SXSW, MozCon, SMX and Digital Summit.

Lily Ray is a US search executive based in Brooklyn, New York, with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. As VP of SEO and AI Search at Amsive she helps lead more than 35 search professionals, with client work running from SMBs to Fortune 50 companies. USA Today named her the number one most influential SEO expert in 2022. Her work examines Google ranking changes and search quality, with particular authority on EEAT and how it governs visibility.

Rand Fishkin has shaped US search marketing since launching SEOmoz in 2003. The project became Moz, an SEO software business that reached more than 200 employees and over $50M in revenue during his time there. His research has been cited by the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, and by American publications including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Through Moz and SparkToro he has built expertise in organic search and audience research as discovery moves past the Google click.

Jason Hennessey is a United States Air Force veteran who started reverse engineering Google's algorithm in 2001 and became a recognised authority in legal SEO. He founded Hennessey Digital in 2015 and scaled it past $20 million in revenue before its sale to Trinity Hunt Partners, picking up six consecutive years on the Inc. 5000 along the way. Building and exiting a company at that scale is a far harder credential to get hold of than any ranking. His expertise has featured in The Washington Post and the National Law Review.

Edward Sturm has consulted on SEO for Microsoft and ADP, with further work for Time Inc. aimed at search visibility and organic growth. His projects have drawn coverage from 20/20, Good Morning America, The Today Show and Forbes, which is national attention marketing work rarely gets. He teaches monthly in person to classes of 70 to 100 people, which keeps the methods honest against an audience that can ask awkward questions rather than just read.

Chris Palmer has spent more than a decade on client search campaigns in the United States. He pairs technical optimisation with off page authority building, and settles every conclusion through systematic testing that measures the ranking effect. Experience in SEM and PPC shapes how he reads search visibility as a whole. His case studies document techniques proven in live campaigns, and his teaching explains how businesses can compete in genuinely demanding US search markets.

Eldar Cohen founded Local Dominator to improve local search visibility for businesses and SEO companies across the United States. His expertise covers Google Maps rankings and Google Business Profile optimisation, and his software turns local search data into decisions, showing where a business is losing ground and to whom. The work ties visibility to lead generation and measurable performance. Every system came out of hands on testing rather than being assembled from published advice.