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Who is Eric Ward?

Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Bompa

Eric Ward founded the Web’s first services for announcing, linking, and building buzz for Web sites, called NetPOST, in 1994, and in 1995 he launched the URLwire Site Announcement Network, which today has millions of readers and remains the only service devoted to announcing new web content. Eric’s client list is a who’s who of online brands. Ward is best known as the person behind the linking campaigns for Amazon.com, Rodney.com, and PBS.org. His services won the 1995 Award For Internet Marketing Excellence, and he was selected as one of the Web’s 100 most influential people by Websight magazine in 1997. Eric is a 4-star speaker at Jupiter’s Search Engine Strategies conferences, and he publishes a monthly how-to newsletter called THE WARD REPORT: Link Building and Content Publicity Tactics. Eric has written online marketing advice columns for MarketingProfs, ClickZ and Ad Age magazine. Eric, his wife Melissa and toddler Noah live in Knoxville, Tennessee.