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Brent is very knowledgeable, can quickly assess a website’s strengths and weaknesses, and provides easy-to-implement tactics. He is skilled at communicating in a way that makes the more technical elements of SEO accessible for a non-expert. He is generous with his time and has taken on our industry-specific SEO struggles as a challenge and puzzle to solve.

I really loved the presentation that Brent put together for us—especially the process of SEO-dissecting our websites with hands-on tips and tactics to improve

There are a ton of tools out there to tell you the low-hanging fruit to fix on your website’s SEO – but they aren’t Brent. His years of experience shine through by interpreting the data from his tools, the search engines, where you rank, etc – to not just tell you quick, easy fixes but also what you should build out/write. He told us dozens of things we wouldn’t have thought of; no off-the-shelf SEO tool will give you the context and strategies that Brent will… and he’s upbeat with a good sense of humor to boot.

Brent made talking about the often dry topic of SEO enjoyable and engaging and helped us with some low-hanging fruit strategies that we can action straight away.

Brent is EXTREMELY knowledgeable and was able to pick apart the landscape, analyze our areas of opportunity, and recommend suggestions in our first session alone!

Brent instantly understood our product and target audience and enthusiastically explained how to quickly increase the audience to our site with quick wins.

My best meeting of the week is the one I have with Brent. Always. I’ve learned a ton about SEO from him, and he’s helped us make great progress with our content. Highly recommend working with him!

Brent is a true expert. What do I mean by this? Well, he is like e.e. cummings of SEO.

He also has a tremendous work ethic, born of a relentless curiosity. He’s been a phenomenal business asset to us.

In my experience, the signal-to-noise ratio amongst individuals in the SEO industry is particularly bad. Supposed ‘experts’ miss the forest for the trees and focus on short-term gains that are either not scalable or sustainable. In stark contrast, Brent has provided a foundation on which to build SEO success. He provides high-quality work that cuts through the noise. And most importantly, the results are undeniably excellent. Highly recommended.

In 2013, I invited Brent to be a speaker at a Society of Professional Journalists conference. Brent successfully led an engaging and informative discussion with a room full of journalists who to this day apply the SEO best practices in their newsrooms thanks to Brent’s knowledge and infinite wisdom.

Brent has a masterful understanding of SEO and is skillfully able to adapt to different situations and verticals to provide meaningful and lasting results. He is thorough, straightforward, loves to solve challenges, and explains solutions in an easily understandable way. Throughout the engagement with Loud, Brent taught us SEO basics, strategies, and advanced applications that we are still utilizing today and continue to drive results.

Brent has clear credentials and experience to help companies, big and small, implement effective SEO strategies. He breaks things down into tactical, simple terms and tasks so you not only understand what you’re implementing but why.

Our meetings with Brent are the highlight of my week. He’s really helped to take our SEO/content strategy to the next level. And he’s made my job a heck of a lot easier!

Brent Payne is a search marketing legend and owns one of the best search engine companies in Chicago: Loud SEO. Over the past few decades, he has represented quality, trust, and the rare ability to consistently execute at the highest level in the local SEO and digital marketing service space. I’ve seen good and great SEO experts, but Brent is in the top 1% of search engine experts in the United States.

Brent is creative, energetic and a great SEO resource.

Brent is the best SEO I’ve ever met. I once interviewed ten search engine optimization experts to get advice about my website. Brent was the only SEO who provided mind-blowing insight. I’ve been referring businesses to Brent since 2010.

Whenever the subject of search engine optimization arises for our founders, my first phone call has always been to Brent Payne. He is one of the most knowledgeable and helpful mentors we’ve had at Techstars Chicago, and I’m grateful for his leadership skills and practicality in SEO!