SEO Community Spotlight: London

London’s SEO community is a vibrant, thriving one.

With so much ground to cover, we did some serious digging to showcase the city’s best SEO speakers, conferences, and meet-ups.

London’s search community was nascent but sizable from the early noughties. By around 2010, small SEO meet-ups were happening with fair regularity across thecity.

As the search space flourished, some meet-ups gained enough traction to organize namesake conferences, including LondonSEO XL and SMX London.

There’s a meet-up for every kind of SEO professional. Here are some notable ones:

Search London

Search London has been around for over a decade.

For context, co-organizer Jo took over Search London in October 2010. Back then, the meet-up was known as “SEO, SMO and PPC” and was run by Judith Lewis—who today owns advertising agency Decabbit Consultancy.

The meet-up is open to anyone in SEO, PPC, or social media—and offers marketing professionals and first-time speakers a safe, supportive space to share their industry knowledge and experiences.

The group has ramped up its online and offline meet-ups in the past year—these typically take place once amonth.

Search London speakers also occasionally broach broader and more diverse topics, such as how to be an LGBTQ+ ally in marketing, or handling workplace stress.

Search ‘nStuff

After moving to London and attending several SEO meet-ups and conferences around the city, Yagmur founded Search ‘n Stuff in June this year. She even held a poll to gauge...