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Marie Haynes

Founder, Marie Haynes Consulting

Last updated 2026-07-23

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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