Jeff Watts

Jeff Watts, Strongpages founder, has helped drive the evolution of online marketing over the last decade by working on large-scale search programs spanning multiple countries and languages.

Prior to forming Strongpages, Jeff served as a product manager for Bazaarvoice, a social commerce company serving large retail, manufacturing, and financial services firms. While there, Jeff was responsible for streamlining and automating SEO to help the world’s biggest brands significantly improve the search value of user-generated content. His work produced annual average growth rates of 276% for their established clients.

Prior to Bazaarvoice, Jeff managed the global SEO program at National Instruments, an industrial electronics supplier in Austin, Texas with operations in 40 countries and 9 languages. There, he started the SEO program from the ground up, ultimately driving approximately a half million searches per month, with 98% generated from less than 1% of the budget. Jeff is also a software developer and holds a computer engineering degree from Texas A&M University.