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Our guest on this week’s episode of Suds & Search is Grant Simmons, SEO Strategist at Brilliant Strategy.

Grant is a veteran digital marketer with over 20 years of experience. He presents at conferences all over the world including Pubcon, Digital Summit, the Advanced Search Summit, and the Chiang Mai SEO Conference. Grant has been a judge for many of the search marketing awards shows. He is a frequent blogger and a must follow on social media.

We’ve spoken to in-house SEOs, agency owners, freelancers and everything in-between. It’s difficult to put Grant into one of those familiar categories. He has carved out a niche as a fractional Director of SEO. We’re going to start our conversation learning about being a fractional Director of SEO, which in our humble opinion would be an excellent solution for many businesses.

Grant recently spoke at Digital Summit Chicago about entity SEO. We’ll discuss the presentation and nerd out about entities, schema, internal linking, and much more.

Grab something cold to drink and join us for a conversation with Grant Simmons. We’ll chat about his position as US Ambassador of inLinks, we’ll spend a little time chatting about ChatGPT, and we’ll ask Grant to make some predictions for SEO in 2023.

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Mark Bealin

Founder and Principal

Mark Bealin is the Founder and Principal at SearchLab, which was founded in March 2017. Under his leadership, Clutch and Manifest both named SearchLab one of the top agencies in Chicago in 2018 and 2019.

Mark has been helping small and medium-sized businesses with SEO and PPC since 2007. He is an in-demand speaker and contributor at events throughout the country, sought out for his expertise in SEO, Paid Search and Analytics.

He is a board member of EO Chicago and a guest lecturer at DePaul University. Mark lives in Chicago with his wife and three children. He's a former varsity high school football coach and remains active at St. Ignatius College Prep.

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