Modern SEO Leaders & Strategists
Marie Haynes
Founder, Marie Haynes Consulting
Marie Haynes is a former veterinarian turned SEO consultant, best known for helping websites recover from Google penalties and for her research into how AI systems are being integrated into Search. Her consultancy has been quietly running some of the highest-stakes reconsideration requests in the industry.
Quick facts
- Role
- Founder, Marie Haynes Consulting
- Based in
- Canada
- Experience
- 15+ years in SEO
- Known for
- Google penalty recovery specialist
- Focus areas
- Google Algorithms, Manual Actions, AI in Search
- Known clients
- Sites recovering from Google manual actions
What Marie Haynes is known for
Marie won the Wix SEO competition in 2019, a highly-publicised industry contest, and authored SEO in the Gemini Era, a practical guide to optimising for AI-driven search surfaces.
Her weekly newsletter is one of the more technical reads in the space — heavier on patent analysis and Google statements than on tactics.
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