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People to follow: The skeptic

Voices that challenge easy answers and force the field to define its claims.

Hand-picked practitioners · Updated June 2026

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Rand Fishkin

The skeptic

Co-founder & CEO, SparkToro · Seattle, WA, USA

Known for: The clickstream data the rest of the industry quotes when arguing AI search is over-hyped.

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Independent SEO Consultant; Author, Product-Led SEO, Independent · San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA

Known for: The principled contrarian arguing GEO is mostly rebranded SEO fundamentals.

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The skeptic

Founder, Marie Haynes Consulting · Ottawa, Canada

Known for: Reads Google's Quality Rater Guidelines so you don't have to, now decoding the agentic web.

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EVP Audience Growth, Raptive; Founder, The SEO MBA, Raptive / The SEO MBA · Brooklyn, NY, USA

Known for: Publisher-side data on the death of the link economy and the rise of the recommendation web.

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