About Stephanie Newton
Career
PDQ | SEO Manager II
09/2021-Current — Salt Lake City, Utah
- Building PDQ’s, SimpleMDM’s, and SmartDeploy’s SEO strategy from the ground up.
Adobe | SEO Manager, Experience Cloud (DX)
05/2021-09/2021 — Lehi, Utah
- One of three SEOs over Adobe’s B2B Experience Cloud, DX.
- Lead SEO managing DX blog migration from blog.adobe to business.adobe.
- Projects also span across three external site migrations, new product launches, localization, technical, content, and outreach initiatives.
Divvy | SEO Manager
02/2020-05/2021 — Draper, Utah
- Developed SEO processes to improve the online presence of the expense management and smart and virtual card company, Divvy.
- Over 16 months, I improved GetDivvy.com’s organic site traffic by 285% through the use of intuitive SEO opportunity analysis and general site optimizations.
- 2021 Utah Business SAMY Award winner for Best Content Marketing Campaign.
- Invited and spoke with Oregon State University’s Business Analytics Club and Marketing Club on data, analytics, UX, and user engagement.
For more detail surrounding Divvy’s content successes check out the Divvy content team’s appearance on Opensense’s Growth Marketing Camp podcast and subsequent article on building great content.
Clearlink | Senior SEO Specialist
09/2017-02/2020 — Salt Lake City, Utah
- In-house SEO for three Clearlink-owned brands; developing international strategies and site launch QA guidelines, featured snippet trainings, content opportunities, technical audits, etc.
Merkle | Senior SEO Specialist
08/2014-08/2017 — Bend, Oregon
- Agency SEO specialist for 13 brands, including Fortune 500 companies. Provided local SEO recommendations for 6K+ locations, mobile optimization strategies, Super Bowl campaign launches, holiday e-commerce planning, on-page audits, etc.
Education
Oregon State University | Corvallis, Oregon
2014 | Cum Laude
Degree | B.S. Digital Communication Arts; Media & Society
Minor | Environmental Geosciences
Extra-Curriculars
- Kappa Kappa Psi | Honorary Music Fraternity
- Marching Band | Tenor Saxophone, Squad Leader
- Symphonic Band | Bass Clarinet
- Studio & Field Video Production
- Script Writing
Tools I use (and may even go as far as to say that I love)
- ScreamingFrog
- Ahrefs
- SEMRush
- MarketMuse
- SparkToro
- MajesticSEO
- Google Analytics
- Google Search Console
Hobbies
Dungeons and Dragons
- Grinn Cauze | Changling Arcane Trickster Rogue (5e)
- Clarence Al’Rakuun | Ratfolk Inventor (PF 2e)
- Tranquility | Awakened Raccoon Twilight Cleric (5e)
World of Warcraft
- Bayleaf | 70 Night Elf Feral Druid
- Tranquility | 60 Vulpera Shadow Priest
Bird Watching
- Audubon Society Member
Perhaps my favorite free outdoor activity is to watch indigenous birds flourish in their natural habitat. Having only lived in Utah for just over three years, there are hundreds of birds I have never seen before.
Memorable Sightings
Summer 2019
- Group of three Sandhill Crane on a rafting trip on the Weber River.
- Mountain Bluebird nesting in an ornamental cherry tree in my neighborhood.
Fall 2019
- Yellow-headed Blackbird on my way into the office.
Winter 2019
- Successfully identified a Cooper’s Hawk from a Sharp-shinned Hawk.
Spring 2020
- While walking my dog, both identified by call and visuals a Say’s Phoebe.
Summer 2020
- A family of Black-chinned Hummingbirds have taken residence in my neighbors’ maple!
Winter 2020
- There are so many American Kestrels finding home in my neighborhood this winter.