Stephen Noton

International SEO Consultant

Stephen's entrepreneurial success has taken him to over 60 countries, and seen him work as a marketing consultant for several of the world's largest Internet companies, including Alibaba, Facebook, Gartner, Shopify, and TripAdvisor.

Clients & References


Stephen had an enormous impact to our learning, team building, and procedures. He was very well organized, highly respected by the team, and easy to reach whenever we had questions.

Tiffany DaSilva - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Shopify, Head of CRO

I found him very knowledgeable and savvy in SEO and a pleasant person to deal with. Stephen's approach is very creative, inventive and proactive and it gives him a definite edge over the competition.

Susan Geraeds - Amsterdam, Netherlands

Booking.com, Product Owner SEO

He is best SEO specialist I've ever seen. Team members can learn a lot from him. He is a globally experienced people in internet industry.

Weiyi Xia - Beijing, China

Baidu, Strategic Cooperation Manager

He's the definitive person to go to when we had doubts, and could always discover problems or get great insights from tracked data.

Qingbo Zhou - Sydney, Australia

Canva, Infrastructure Engineer

It has been a pleasure working with Stephen at the company. He never ceased to impress me with his vast knowledge and creativity on finding different methods to pursue in the development of our project, as well as his experience in other areas outside of the immediate project.

Jeanine Lee - Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Alibaba, Director of Marketing

Stephen is one of the few search professionals that can develop a global search strategy as well as solve the most obscure technical issues preventing high rankings. He is especially versed in China and other Asia Pacific countries helping companies large and small perform well in local search engines.

Bill Hunt - Armonk, New York

IBM, Global Search Strategist

Stephen Noton possesses vast & thorough experience in SEO, marketing, affiliate marketing & e-commerce that are difficult to replicate. Ask Stephen whatever questions within these areas and/or regarding the Internet world's trends, he is always able to dig deep down into critical details that would make a big difference for your business.

Gordon Choi - Shanghai, China

Ctrip, Senior Manager of Website

Stephen is passionate, easy to work with, and also a great communicator. He not only understands SEO inside out, he also knows business, which makes him a full package.

Frank Cheng - Chicago, Illinois

Orbitz, Senior SEO

Stephen knows SEO. He's helped me on several projects and I can confidently say that his SEO knowledge is at a level that is rare to find.

Luc Levesque - Palo Alto, California

Facebook, Sr. Director

Stephen possesses extraordinary knowledge in the SEO space. I worked with him on several projects at TripAdvisor and he was always ready with smart, well-articulated solutions to a variety of business issues. He is also great at anticipating future needs -- forward-thinking is critical in this business. A highly strategic mind and passionate leader.

Marie Facini - Boston, Massachusetts

TripAdvisor, Product Director

Stephen is always a joy to work with. He is always there to help and guide the juniors. In his stay with Global Sources, he manages the SEO and SEM functions for the company and coached a team of executives.

Jacqueline Goh - Singapore

Global Sources, Senior Marketing Executive

He has wealth of knowledge and creative thinking to help a website boost the SEO performance. He is enthusiastic and willing to provide training to share his knowledge and experience.

Jia Rong - Hangzhou, China

Taobao, Senior Product Manager

I would say that Stephen knows everything there is to know about Search Engines. He is very well connected and is always up to date, so I would recommend Stephen if you want to stay competitive in getting quality traffic to your website.

Hairi Hamid - Bangkok, Thailand

Lazada, Regional CRM Data Manager

Stephen is a very reliable, responsible and knowledgable resource. His skill-set in SEO is par excellence and one can count on him to not only deliver on time, but also provide value-adds to the work product.

Radhika Mehra - Seattle, Washington

Expedia, Director Global Product

I worked with Stephen Noton for several years as he provided consulting services to Gartner. I specially worked with him on the Gartner Digital Markets portfolio, and his critical advice helped facilitate rapid growth of organic traffic to our websites. His deep knowledge of the SEO space, technical SEO, and emphasis on leveraging automation was particularly helpful. In addition to his analyses and project specific recommendations, he provided trainings/workshops for our SEO team, and shared a lot of valuable insights based on his years in the industry.

Madeline Enos - Stamford, Connecticut

Gartner, Marketing Program Manager

The quality of the extensive SEO training he provided was always first class, insightful and delivered with good humour.

Lee Farrington - Beijing, China

DHgate.com, Online Marketing Manager

He is extremely good at analyzing the data, finding problems, and posing strategic approaches to solve them.

Zhe Zhang - Cambridge, Massachusetts

HubSpot, Senior Software Engineer

He brought incredible vision, candor and experience to the team. Most of our most innovative initiatives came, or were materially informed by his ideas.

Ashley Waldman - Austin, Texas

Software Advice, Marketing Director

Stephen knows the Internet in the SEO / SEM / domain management field inside out. He is the most knowledgeable person in that field that I have ever met.

Yves-Alain Schwaar - Geneva, Switzerland

Swiss Air, Marketing Manager











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Stephen Noton

International SEO Consultant

Stephen's entrepreneurial success has taken him to over 60 countries, and seen him work as a marketing consultant for several of the world's largest Internet companies, including Alibaba, Facebook, Gartner, Shopify, and TripAdvisor.

Having such an international understanding of how Google works, led Stephen's SEO consulting to focus on helping multinational companies, especially in the B2B, education, software, and travel spaces. Making him one of world's best International SEO consultants.

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