Eric
Ward founded the Web's first services for announcing, linking, and
building buzz for Web sites, called NetPOST,
in 1994, and in 1995 he launched the URLwire
Site Announcement Network, which today has millions of readers
and remains the only service devoted 100% to announcing useful web content.
Eric is best known as the person behind the first linking campaigns for
Amazon.com,
Rodney.com,
and PBS.org. His services won the 1995
Award For Internet Marketing Excellence, and he was selected as one
of the Web's 100 most influential people by Websight Magazine in
1997. Eric is a 4-star speaker at Jupiter's Search Engine Strategies conferences,
and he publishes a monthly how-to newsletter called THE
WARD REPORT: Link Building and Content Publicity Tactics.
Eric writes several online marketing columns including LinkWeek
for SearchEngineLand.com,
and previously wrote for ClickZ.com
and Ad Age magazine. Eric, wife
Melissa and four year old Noah
live in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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