Richard Nazarewicz From AltaVista Servers To SEO Manager At The Wall Street Journal

Richard Nazarewicz is the Technical SEO Manager on the Wall Street Journal and I used to be really suppose to go to him over a yr in the past, earlier than COVID hit, on the WSJ places of work however then COVID occurred. Instead, we each bought vaccinated after which met in my workplace, since his workplace just isn’t absolutely open proper now. We nonetheless have been socially distant as a result of we’re good at not being social. We spoke a bit in regards to the transition to working from dwelling and issues round that.Nazarewicz is an outdated time geek, he labored at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), he did servers and storage and had some AltaVista servers within the nook, sure, AltaVista was created by DEC in 1995. Compaq acquired DEC, and Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He ultimately left HP to start out his personal company in Spain, doing search advertising and marketing, website growth, internet apps and a lot extra again within the early 2000s. He did that for a number of years or so after which moved to the United States and labored at some companies there and ultimately took a job on the Wall Street Journal after a recruiter reached out to him. When he joined the Wall Street Journal there have been bones of an SEO staff there and he and his staff constructed out a powerful inside SEO staff. He stated administration actually purchased into SEO and that helped large time with progress. He additionally stated they’d their very own taste of a paywall however then when Google launched Flexible Sampling, the a Wall Street Journal switched to that answer and that was large for them.Approaching Tech SEO for a Global News Organization like Wall Street Journal:Early on, Richard constructed a schematic to see how all the information factors, the way it all interacts with Google, the way it ends in site visitors and a lot extra. Plenty of it was additionally standardizing the stack, the expertise stack, even from utilizing the identical 404 throughout all pages. The WSJ even has many WordPress websites on subdomains of the wsj.com, so he manages that as effectively. So the corporate nonetheless does handle a number of expertise stacks now. Richard then described the construction of the SEO staff on the Wall Street Journal. You can study extra about Richard Nazarewicz on Twitter @richardnaz.You can subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking right here so you do not miss the subsequent vlog the place I interviews. I do have a pleasant lineup of interviews scheduled with SEOs and SEMS, a lot of which you do not wish to miss – and I promise to proceed to make these vlogs higher over time. If you wish to be interviewed, please fill out this manner together with your particulars. Forum dialogue at YouTube.