SEO Community Spotlight: Singapore

Singapore’s SEO community is a humble-sized, diverse mix of marketers of all experience levels.

Having lived in this city-state for a good three decades, I’ve gathered that SEO remains a niche here—but the people within it are welcoming and always happy to exchange ideas.

Let’s take a closer look.

Historically, the SEO community in Singapore hasn’t been particularly active.

The longest-standing community—though not entirely SEO-focused—is APAC Marketers by David Fallarme. If its Slack group is any indication, there are around 180 members based in Singapore. (Just check out its dedicated #singapore channel!)

We even hosted a group meet-up in our office earlier thisyear:

Going back in time (to 2016), the now-defunct SG SEO was an early attempt to bring together SEO professionals in the country.

While they had occasional meet-ups over four years, Adam stepped down just as the Covid pandemic descended. Our very own Tim Soulo then acquired the group while paying a small maintenance fee.

Sadly, the online community was abandoned after some unsuccessful attempts to revive it:

With that, Tim decided to focus on other efforts to engage the local community—more on that in abit.

There are only two local meet-ups we’re aware of at present: Middy’s, and Ahrefs’ SEO Beer & Snacks event.

Middy’s

APAC Marketers’ community member Robert Lai launched a spin-off meet-up called Middy’s for marketers around the region to network in...