Back in March of this year Michael Dorausch was the first to kick of our ongoing series of guest post blogs. We did so not only to broaden the scope of the content available on our site but also, tacky sounding or not, to build a larger connection with the SEO world.

Last week behind the scenes we started to make preparations to deepen that relation with the SEO world and to help those interested in our industry to get some of the best, smartest, wittiest information available out there.

It's almost a case of personal pride to be allowed to be the one chosen to announce the names of our new contributors. Yes, you read that right; not guest posters -- no, contributors.

In no particular order:

Donna Fontenot

Donna Fontenot, aka DazzlinDonna, is an ebusiness coach who talks and teaches from first hand experience.

She practices and preaches no-nonsense SEO. She smart, witty and *s*p*a*r*k*l*i*n*g*. (Disclosure: both Donna and I are moderators at Cre8asite Forums)

Melanie Nathan

Melanie Nathan, a.k.a. status_girl, handles SEO and related matters for the Edmonton web development company STATUSfirm. She's one of the smartest link builders I know, taking her time to go beyond simple dump & drop links.

Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty is one of the best SEO resource bloggers I know of at the moment.

Her resource posts are always real helpful, easy to digest, concise. She's never too shy to share good information.

Todd Mintz

Todd Mintz, founder and board member of Portlands Search Engine Marketing Association: SEMpdx.

Todd too is a straight shooter as witnessed in his guest post ADD: The AID Of SEO, right here on Search Engine People.

Dave Snyder

Dave Snyder is the co-founder of Search & Social (see below).

David is smart in a "keep it real" way that I really appreciate. See for example Figure out what your job is already!

Jordan Kasteler

Jordan Kasteler is the other part of Search & Social.

Jordan is young and energetic, bringing to the SEO community and his posts a refreshing speed and view.

Brian Carter

Brian Carter does everything SEO for Fuel Interactive.

He's a frequent blogger, prolific on Twitter and an all around good guy.

Contributing Monday

And there you have it!

Our initial aim is to hear a different view from the trenches every Monday. Meanwhile we keep on looking for additional contributors and other ways to build out our SEO community involvement.

To the new contributors: welcome and thank you!

About the Author: Ruud Hein

I love helping to make web sites make it. From the ground up if needed. CSS challenges, server-side scripting, user and device friendly JavaScript tricks search engines have no problems with. Tracking how the sites perform and then figuring out how to make that performance and the tracking better. I'm passionate about information. No matter how often I trim my feeds in my feed readers (yes, I use more than one), I always have a couple of hundred in there covering topics ranging from design to usability, from SEO to SEM, from life hacks to productivity blogs, from.... Well, you get the idea, I guess. Knowledge and information management is close to my heart. Has to be with the amount of information I track. My "trusted system" is usually in flux but always at hand and fully searchable. My paid passion job at Search Engine People sees me applying my passions and knowledge to a wide array of problems, ones I usually experience as challenges. It's good to have you here: pleased to meet you!