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Class of 2026
Bill Slawski
The Patent Man
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Class of 2026 · № 02

Bill Slawski

The Patent Man

d. May 17, 2022, age 61

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Biography

From SEO by the Sea (2005 to 2022), Slawski translated Google's patent filings into the actionable intellectual canon every serious SEO works from. Among the earliest and most influential voices to popularize entity-based search analysis in the SEO community. Director of SEO Research at Go Fish Digital until his death on May 17, 2022. Mentor to a generation that includes most of the others in this class. Inducted because no honest version of this list could exist without him.

Milestones

  • 012005 Launched SEO by the Sea
  • 02Director of SEO Research at Go Fish Digital

Citations

This profile draws on primary biographical sources, conference records, and reporting from Search Engine Land, Search Engine Roundtable, and historical archives of the SEO industry. Citations are curated by the editorial board of the SEO Hall Of Fame.

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