Search Engine Land’s Staff

The Search Engine Land editors below work regularly on the site, directing coverage and also writing about search issues.

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More about the editors and areas they oversee:

Henry PowderlyHenry Powderly, Vice President, Content
Henry Powderly is vice president of content for Third Door Media, publishers of Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than a decade in editorial leadership positions, he is responsible for content strategy and event programming for the organization. He can be found on Twitter at @henrypowderly.


Ginny MarvinGinny Marvin, Editor-in-Chief
Ginny Marvin is Third Door Media’s Editor-in-Chief, running the day to day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin writes about paid online marketing topics including paid search, paid social, display and retargeting for Search Engine Land and Marketing Land. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.


Taylor PetersonTaylor Peterson, Deputy Editor
Taylor Peterson is Third Door Media’s Deputy Editor, managing industry-leading coverage that informs and inspires marketers. Based in New York, Taylor brings marketing expertise grounded in creative production and agency advertising for global brands. Taylor’s editorial focus blends digital marketing and creative strategy with topics like campaign management, emerging formats, and display advertising. Find her on Twitter @soulmilkco.


Jennifer Cannon, Senior Editor
Jennifer Videtta Cannon serves as Third Door Media’s Senior Editor, covering topics from email marketing and analytics to CRM and project management. With over a decade of organizational digital marketing experience, she has overseen digital marketing operations for NHL franchises and held roles at tech companies including Salesforce, advising enterprise marketers on maximizing their martech capabilities. Jennifer formerly organized the Inbound Marketing Summit and holds a certificate in Digital Marketing Analytics from MIT Sloan School of Management.


Amy GesenhuesAmy Gesenhues, Senior Editor
Amy covers the latest news and updates for Search Engine Land, MarTech Today, and Marketing Land. From 2009 to 2012, she was an award-winning syndicated columnist for a number of daily newspapers from New York to Texas. With more than ten years of marketing management experience, she has contributed to a variety of traditional and online publications, including MarketingProfs.com, SoftwareCEO.com, and Sales and Marketing Management Magazine.


George Nguyen, Associate Editor
George Nguyen is an Associate Editor at Third Door Media. His background is in content marketing, journalism, and storytelling.


Pamela ParkerPamela Parker, Senior Editor and Projects Manager, Content Studio
Pamela Parker is Senior Editor and Projects Manager at Search Engine Land, MarTech Today, and Marketing Land, after serving as Executive Features Editor on the sites for several years. She’s a well-respected authority on digital marketing, having reported and written on the subject since 1998. In addition to her role as a Senior Editor, Pamela manages special resources, such as MarTech Intelligence Reports and the Periodic Table of SEO Factors. She can be found on Twitter at @pamelaparker.


Chris ShermanChris Sherman, Founding Editor
Chris Sherman (@CJSherman) is a Founding Editor of SearchEngineLand.com and President of Searchwise LLC, a Boulder Colorado based Web consulting firm. He also programs and co-chairs the Search Marketing Expo – SMX conference series.


Wendy AlmeidaWendy Almeida, Community Editor
Wendy Almeida is Third Door Media’s Community Editor, working with contributors for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. She’s spent most of her career working as a writer and editor at a daily newspaper and more recently as an online content manager at HIMSS Media.


Greg SterlingGreg Sterling, Contributing Editor
Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land. He writes a personal blog, Screenwerk, about connecting the dots between digital media and real-world consumer behavior. He is also VP of Strategy and Insights for the Local Search Association. Follow him on Twitter or find him at Google+.


Barry SchwartzBarry Schwartz, Contributing Editor
Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land’s Contributing Editor and owns RustyBrick, a New York-based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry’s can be followed on social media at @rustybrick, +BarrySchwartz and Facebook. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio over here.


Detlef Johnson, Editor at Large
As Third Door Media’s Editor at Large, Detlef writes a column for Search Engine Land entitled “Technical SEO for Developers.” Detlef is one of the original group of pioneering webmasters who established the professional SEO field more than 20 years ago. Since then, he has worked for major search engine technology providers, managed programming and marketing teams for Chicago Tribune, and consulted for numerous entities including Fortune 500 companies. As a noted technology moderator at our SMX conference series, Detlef will continue to promote SEO excellence combined with marketing-programmer features and webmaster tips.


Jessica Bowman, Editor at Large
Jessica is Editor at Large at Search Engine Land and the founder of SEOinhouse.com, a company on a mission to make in house SEO simpler. She is a leading advocate of in house SEO, started in house SEO programs at Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Business.com and Yahoo! Inc.