Marshall Simmonds

Chief Search Strategist, New York Times

Marshall D. Simmonds is a pioneer and leading expert in the search marketing industry. He speaks at conferences worldwide and specializes in educating organizations on bringing search marketing in-house and into the daily work flow.

Mr. Simmonds was responsible for building About.com into the most successful search engine optimized content network on the Internet. Acquired in March, 2005 by The New York Times he was named chief search strategist and is responsible for strategic initiatives, maximizing traffic and search engine exposure for NYTimes.com, Boston.com, IHT.com and About.com.

In addition to his work with The Times, he co-founded DEFINE SEARCH STRATEGIES,www.DefineSS.com an enterprise search consulting business, funded by The New York Times Company. Most recently he created SearchCLU the network diagnostic and search engine optimization tool.

As a leader in the search industry since 1997, Mr. Simmonds has worked with a multitude of clients including; Hearst Digital Publications, Time Inc Interactive, Newsweek, ConsumerSearch, TV Guide, ToysRUs, ESPN International, NHL.com, David's Bridal, Beliefnet, Daily Candy, Oprah.com, Madison Square Garden, National Geographic, Rainbow Media, Littlewoods.co.uk, Consumer-Source/Apartment Guide, Hewlett-Packard, Gerson Lehrman Group, Lime.com, TechTarget, CBS, The Canadian Broadcast Company, The Pilot Group, Readers Digest, Contours Express, Medialive, Gawker Media, Intel, Citigroup, Home Shopping Network, CitySearch, Yellow Pages, TicketMaster, Match.com, Entertainment.com, Hotwire.com, LendingTree, Hotels.com, Expedia, Evite, Ciao!com (.de).