James Svoboda is a Managing Partner at WebRanking, a Search Engine Marketing Agency that was founded in the spring of 1998. He has over 12 years of search engine marketing experience and is accredited for both Google AdWords and Microsoft Advertising. James is a Co-Founder and Vice President of the Minnesota Search Engine Marketing Association, spent over 10 years as a volunteer editor for the Open Directory (1999 - 2010) and a year as a Sphinn.com editor (2011).