A lot of love and good energy to Bill! Bill is one of my top SEO experts. 

Unfortunately, I have not had a chance to meet Bill in person but I am a regular reader of this blog. I have learned from Bill a lot! I hope that once Bill recovers and the pandemic is over, I will be able to meet him at some conference and come up to say "hi". 

I stumbled upon SEO by the Sea in my early days of SEO, somewhere around 2012-2013. His blog has always been different from other SEO blogs out there. I cannot read his posts over a cup of coffee as a way to relax while reading. Reading Bill's stuff requires my full attention and uses up a lot of my brain capacity. His articles are full of concrete stuff and sheer technical knowledge. His blog is so technical and nerdy. I really love this.

Thanks to Bill I managed to learn about and (better) understand the topics, such as PageRank (and how SEOs should approach it in 2020), search engine patents (the topic that used to be totally beyond my comprehension a few years ago), and featured snippets. I am waiting for more!