About Dave Smart
What I Do
I've been a web developer and SEO for over 20 years, starting professionally in 2000, and have worked on a wide variety of projects, from small sites for local businesses to large-scale web applications for international companies.
My first career path was materials science for aerospace, which got me using computers to create reports. Creating reports got me interested in sharing the reports, and that got me interested in the web.
Over time, I've increasingly worked more in technical SEO, consulting directly with businesses, and providing my skill set for agencies and other SEO-related companies and services.
I still develop sites for a number of clients, and find that doing both helps me to understand the technical challenges that might arise with a variety of frameworks and technologies, especially JavaScript frameworks.
Where I'm Based
I'm based in Manchester, in the United Kingdom, where I live with a wonderful wife and a cat. But I work remotely with clients all over the world.
Where you can find me
If you want to work with me, hop on over to the Contact page, and drop me a line.
You can also find me here:
- Google Search Central Help Community, the official Google help forums for things search console and ranking & indexing related. I'm a Diamond Product Expert over there.
- GitHub, where I share a couple of repositories
- https://seocommunity.social/@dwsmart. My Mastodon account
Some Videos / Webinars / Podcasts
Web Almanac
I've been privileged to co-author a few chapters of the Web Almanac over the past few years. This is a great project that brings together a number of subject experts to collect and analyse a huge data set to help answer questions about the state of various aspects of the web.
Here are the chapters I've contributed too as an co-author:
Contributing to the almanac is great fun, and if you enjoy digging into huge datasets, I can recommend giving it a go!