You may already know some of them from conferences or articles. Or maybe this will be your first encounter.
The list includes famous SEO specialists, agency founders, authors of influential blogs and books, conference speakers, as well as young talented specialists who have already achieved impressive results.
1. Mikhail Shakin
SEO expert and blogger Shakin
A professional in the field of English-language SEO. He has been doing it since 2006 and Mikhail put all this knowledge into his book “SEO Shaolin”. In addition, he gives presentations and interviews on his YouTube blog, participates in conferences, and consults on websites.
Contacts: [email protected]
2. Maxim Zakharov
Founder of the Digital Agency “WillDay”
Maxim Zakharov has been the head of the WillDay team and an expert in SEO promotion for over 11 years , and runs a telegram channel with weekly A/B tests on websites, cases, and posts about the company’s life.
Contacts: https://t.me/maxvdk/
3. Maxim Droganov (Dr. Max)
SEO specialist
An experienced SEO specialist with 20 years of experience in website promotion, 7 of which are dedicated to foreign clients. The author of the popular books “SEO-Monster” and “SEO-Guru”, designed to help master the skills of effective optimization for search engines. Details about the books can be found on the website https://drmax.su/
Contacts: DrMax2SEO
4. Shubenok Denis
Executive Director at Ashmanov and Partners
Denis Shubenok has been working in the field of search engine optimization since 2007. Currently, he is one of the leading experts in the field of SEO with more than 10 years of experience in analyzing and creating websites. Igor has gone from a specialist to a manager, and since 2017 he has held the position of executive director of the company, while continuing to practice and develop SEO technologies.
Denis is a leading expert of the IRI ES in the Advertising ecosystem, co-author of the book on reputation management “Digital Reputation” and the 4th edition of the book “Optimization and Promotion in Search Engines”.
Contacts: https://t.me/DenisShubenok
5. Alexander Alaev
General Director at Alaich and Co.
Alexander Alaev, known as “Alaich”, has 17 years of experience in creating and promoting websites. For 11 years, he has been running the authoritative SEO blog alaev.info. For 7 years, Alexander has been running the successful studio “Alaich and Co.” and is the author of the software products FastTrust and ComparseR, as well as the services CheckTrust.ru and Moo.Team CRM for SEO optimization.
Contacts: [email protected]
6. Oleg Shestakov
Founder and CEO of Rush Agency, founder of search analytics service Rush Analytics
Oleg regularly speaks at leading internet marketing conferences, including RIW, RIF, Baltic Digital Days, Optimization. He teaches at Rush Academy, SkillFactory and Netology. He brought the agency to foreign markets, optimizing websites for search engines in the US, Europe and Latin America.
Contacts: https://t.me/rsh0rsh
7. Evgeny Shestakov
Co-founder of SEO agency Rush Agency and creator of PBN Heroes service
With over 12 years of experience in search engine optimization, Evgeniy has been specializing in website promotion in the US, Europe and Latin American markets for about 7 years. For over 6 years, he has been actively involved in building PBN (private blog networks). Currently, he oversees the work of the foreign SEO department at Rush Agency, leading a team of specialists in this area.
Contacts: https://t.me/JimmRush
8. Dmitry Shakhov
SEO expert, founder of the REMARKA agency
Dmitry has been involved in website promotion since 2002, author of SEO courses, organizer of the Baltic Digital Days conference, speaker at the Optimization and SEOconference conferences.
Contacts: [email protected]
9. Alexander Ozhgibesov
Founder of the agency ozhgibesov.agency
SEO practitioner since 2015. Regularly speaks at educational centers CyberMarketing and PromoPult. Author of the course “Comprehensive SEO in 7 Months”, where he shares his practical knowledge and methods.
Contacts: https://t.me/aozhgibesov
10. Andrey Builov
Head of the agency “Muraveynik”
Andrey Builov is a specialist with 20+ years of experience in website promotion, has successfully optimized over 700 resources. Author of the popular YouTube channel “SEO without water” with up-to-date knowledge on SEO. Manages the Telegram group “SEO without water” for industry professionals.
Contacts: @bezseo_support
11. Dmitry Shevtsov
Founder of SEMANTIST
Dmitry Shevtsov is a speaker at specialized conferences, as well as an author of courses and a teacher in the field of SEO. He is considered one of the pioneers in the field of large-scale semantic optimization. Dmitry has developed a unique method for clustering the semantic core of sites.
Contacts: https://t.me/SemantistRu
12. Andrey Antokhin
Private specialist in promoting major brands, manufacturers and foreign websites
Andrey Antokhin has been working with commercial projects of various directions for more than 3 years: manufacturing companies, B2B sphere, online stores, service websites. He promotes resources both in the CIS and Western markets. In addition to developing client projects, Andrey runs a Telegram channel on SEO and marketing topics.
Contacts: https://t.me/andrew_seo
13. Ilya Gorbachev
Head of the agency “Rocket Agency” with 14 years of experience in SEO
Creator of the free Rocket-Tools.Pro service with tools for SEO specialists and marketers. Author of the mini-course “Screaming Frog PRO” on Rocket-Academy.pro on working with SEO Spider.
Carried out the promotion of key websites of VTB, Alfa-Bank, Gazprom CNG, Sokolov, Technopark, BMW Borishof.
Contacts: [email protected]
14. Alexey Soltyk
Private SEO specialist with 13+ years of experience
Alexey is the author of the course “SEO Practice: Semantic Analysis and Website Optimization with AI” and has experience in promoting websites both in the Russian and foreign markets, deeply understanding the specific features and requirements of SEO for different regions.
Contacts: [email protected]
15. Alexander Arsenkin
SEO specialist with 10 years of experience in internet marketing. Creator of the webmaster tools service ARSENKIN TOOLS
Currently, Alexander is focused on investment activities, consulting in the field of SEO promotion and managing the search engine optimization department at Artox Media Digital Group.
In his courses, he teaches strategic planning and practical steps to get websites to the top of Google and Yandex search engine results.
Contacts: [email protected]
16. Anna Yashchenko
Webmaster with 20 years of experience, author of the blog seoandme.ru on SEO topics and developer of the well-known in RuNet “TOP Base” – for website promotion
From Anna Yashchenko you will receive recommendations on the best training courses and big discounts on professional SEO tools. Anna works only on her own projects. But on seoandme.ru – extensive free content for independent website optimization.
Contacts: [email protected]
17. Dmitry Sevalnev
Head of SEO Department at Pixel Tools
Dmitry constantly supervises and controls over 150 websites related to online advertising and SEO promotion, has conducted technical, search and marketing audits for over 100 websites and has participated in the development of over 550 projects in this area.
Contacts: https://t.me/sevalnevdm
18. Kostin Evgeny
Internet marketer, entrepreneur. Experience – more than 12 years
Evgeniy has conducted 230+ commercial website audits (excluding promotional projects). His clients include such companies as LG Russia, CONCERT.RU, FRESH, RTS-Tender, PPT.RU, SBER, TransTechService, TradingView, GOOD WOOD and others. Co-author of two books on SEO with a total circulation of over 40,000 copies.
Contacts: [email protected]
19. Artem Biryukov
SEO specialist with 6 years of experience. Independently promotes client sites
Since 2016, Artem has worked in two large digital agencies: Demis Group and Skobeev and Partners. Now, Artem Biryukov is developing as an independent SEO specialist and helps business owners promote their websites in Yandex and Google.
Contacts: [email protected]
20. Kistankin Ivan
Internet marketer with over 13 years of experience.
Ivan is the author of kistankin.ru (SEO blog), he is engaged in promoting client projects in PS (search engines), contextual advertising and developing a marketing strategy.
Contacts: https://t.me/IvanKistankin
21. Artem Vysokov
SEO specialist, has been promoting client projects since 2013
Currently, Artem Vysokov manages: more than 750 sites for placing links, over 40 short-page sites, 20+ information portals, about 40 lead-generating projects, 3 webmaster services and 2 plugins for WordPress with ChatGPT integration.
Contacts: https://t.me/vysokoff
22. Andrey Simagin
Founder of SiteAnalyzer
Andrey oversees all stages of innovation activities and the software development process for SiteAnalyzer, and is engaged in the development of his own Internet projects.
Contacts: https://t.me/siteanalyzer
23. Airat Rakhimzyanov
Head of SEO agency Relianta
Airat has been in the website optimization industry since 2011. Together with his team, the specialist applies his experience and expertise to project promotion. Airat Rakhimzyanov often speaks at SEO webinars with Mikhail Shakin, gives interviews (from which you can extract a lot of useful information) and shoots videos on his own channel.
Contacts: https://t.me/nogval
24. Ivan Zimin
Private SEO specialist, over 10 years of experience
Ivan Zimin specializes in promoting large projects. Provides services for developing a long-term SEO promotion strategy, finding traffic growth points and in-depth analysis of the reasons for the decline in website traffic.
Author of the telegram channel Hey, moneymaker! and the YouTube channel “Ivan Zimin | SEO”.
Contacts: https://t.me/zimin_seo
25. Arthur Korsakov
Specialist with a focus on technical SEO
Arthur is the author of a training course on technical aspects of search engine optimization, a developer of SEO tools on his own website. Founder of Relevantus. Curator of a closed Russian-language SEO community.
Contacts: https://t.me/artur2k
26. Evgeny Aralov
Head of SEO Department at Legalbet
SEO optimizer with experience in promoting websites in Yandex and Google since 2009. Publishes useful articles on specialized blogs and speaks at industry conferences such as Optimization, AllInTop, etc.
Contacts: [email protected]
27. Alexander Denisov
SEO Analyst at Search Marketing Agency kite
Alexander Denisov is a speaker at the Yandex Webmaster conference and has also spoken at All-in-Top conferences. Previously, he held the position of head of the promotion department at the automobile aggregator Autoreshenie.ru.
Specializes in website optimization since 2013.
Contacts: https://twitter.com/Denisov_A_
28. Galina Bakusheva
Works on his own projects in the igaming theme, leads a team
Galina Bakusheva has been in SEO for 10+ years, runs her own telegram channel “SEOshnitsa”. Worked with large companies: Rt.com, Vm.ru, Sport24.ru.
Contacts: https://www.facebook.com/galya.shtorez
29. Kotenkov Maxim
Professional SEO Specialist
Maxim Kotenkov has been successfully promoting websites for over 7 years, including heading the SEO department at Neopulse. Now he leads his own team of professionals with an 86% success rate for projects.
Contacts: https://t.me/mkotenkov
30. Alexey Makhmetkhazhiev
Founder of loading.express service
Alexey specializes in conversion and website speed. Marketer, business practitioner with 13 years of experience. Wrote a huge number of articles and conducted numerous live broadcasts with other SEO experts.
