My jewelry client, Mavilo Wholesalers, has won Tampa Magazine's Best of the City for Best Jewelry every year since I took over their SEO in 2021. Six for six, and the 2026 win is in.
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The most trusted names in SEO, publishing, and design. Platforms with millions of users and authority scores that compound recognition. These are the references that matter most for credibility in this space.
Independent technology publications and developer resources that have linked to or referenced Connor Cedro SEO across web development, software, and digital workflow topics.
Businesses I work with, or have worked with, that reference Connor Cedro SEO on their own sites.
Independent publishers, leadership networks, and lifestyle outlets that have referenced Connor Cedro SEO in business, marketing, and culture coverage.
The references shown here are a curated selection of publications, platforms, and editorial sources that have linked to or featured connorcedro.com. Authority Scores are Semrush\'s, pulled live in September 2026 from the 258 domains that link to this site, and reflect each domain\'s overall trust in search.
Low-quality directory submissions, automated link-building artifacts, and obviously spammy referrers have been excluded. The goal is to show genuine signal, not inflate a number.
Google, Maps, ChatGPT. Three places a buyer looks before they call anyone. My clients come up first in all three.
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Hey, I'm Connor.
I'm a one-person SEO shop in Tampa. Hire me and you get me. I do the research, write the pages, build the links and send your report every month. Nobody in between.
I've done this since 2021 for a jeweler, an IT company, an interior designer and a clothing brand. Most are still clients. All of them are month to month.
Want to know where you stand? I'll run a free audit and tell you what I'd fix first. No pitch.
“Connor built a custom app for our business in 2021 and has kept working on it since. When we need a change, he comes to our office right away and makes it. Our drivers use it every day and the office runs on it.”
“We were founded in 2021, and we've worked with several SEO experts in Tampa. Connor is the highest-rated for a reason. He helped us increase our leads and sales.”
“Connor was a huge help with the IT needs for my business, LHP Supply Co. He compared the specifications of all the hardware options I was considering and helped me find the best equipment for the best value. He was knowledgeable, honest, responsive, and made the entire process easy to understand. I highly recommend him to anyone looking for reliable IT support!”
“Connor helped our business significantly increase the amount of leads we were getting through our website and google by optimizing our SEO performance. We now are fully booked out months in advance”
“Connor took our clothing brand from zero online presence to 1,100+ keyword rankings in three months. His keyword strategy actually works. Highly recommend hiring him for Full Service SEO”
“Connor got to the bottom of a domain issue that was preventing my website from going live. Thank you so much for fixing this so quickly, I spent too many hours pulling my hair out trying to do it myself.”
“Hired Connor for SEO on my website. He was very professional, and his work was amazing. Highly recommend”
“We partnered with Connor on SEO content and keyword strategy, and the results were clear. We saw steady growth in ranking keywords throughout the year, with more terms reaching page one and increased SERP visibility. This directly contributed to higher organic traffic and more showroom visits.”
“I partnered with Connor to improve the SEO content and keyword strategy for my accounting business, and we saw steady growth in keyword rankings with several terms reaching the first page of search results. This improved visibility increased organic traffic and helped attract more potential clients to my business.”
“I partnered with Connor to improve the SEO content and keyword strategy for my accounting business, and the results were very clear. Over the year, we saw steady growth in our keyword rankings, with more important terms reaching the first page of search results. Our overall visibility in the SERPs improved a lot. This increase in visibility brought more organic traffic to our website and helped us attract more potential clients. Working together made a real difference in growing our online presence and bringing in new business.”
“I reached out to Connor for help optimizing my business's website. His knowledge of SEO is abundant as he consulted on multiple ways I could increase traffic organically. Highly recommend scheduling a call. Doesn't take long to see this guy is the real deal.”
“Connor has greatly improved our online presence and brought more qualified leads to our showroom. Since 2021, he's helped us rank higher on Google, grow our traffic, and fix website issues. He also creates clear Excel reports so we can easily track results and see how his SEO work and backlinks are making a real impact!”
Mostly inbound. Most publications and platforms listed on this page reached out for a quote, a contributor piece, or to reference my work in something they were already writing. A smaller number came from collaboration introductions. Other consultants, agency owners, and SaaS founders connecting me with editors looking for sources. Zero of these came from a PR agency, paid placement service, or HARO-style spray-and-pray outreach. The signal value of earned mentions is the entire point; bought mentions defeat the purpose.
Two reasons. First, the obvious one: backlinks from high-authority domains pass ranking signal. A link from a DA 70+ site does more for your site than dozens of links from low-authority directories. Second, the less obvious one: earned media coverage is the strongest E-E-A-T signal Google can read about an individual author. When you're cited as an expert by independent publications, Google's quality systems weight your content more heavily across every page you've authored. For YMYL verticals like finance and medical, this matters disproportionately.
Yes. Selectively. Topics I'll engage on at depth: technical SEO, local SEO and Google Business Profile strategy, AI search visibility (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude), content cluster architecture, and SEO for specific verticals where I have real client experience (jewelry, finance, medical, legal). Topics I'll decline: anything that requires faking expertise outside those domains, anything tied to a product I haven't actually used, and anything where the editorial angle is misleading. The bar is genuine knowledge of the topic. If I don't have it, I'll say so rather than wing it.
No. Not on connorcedro.com, not on any client site I manage. Paid links violate Google's Webmaster Guidelines and put domains at real penalty risk. The press mentions on this page are unpaid editorial coverage. The only kind of link that does what backlinks are supposed to do over the long term. The short-term cost of paid links is more attractive than the long-term cost of recovering from a manual action against the domain.
Every reference on this page either links directly to the publication or links to an archived version of the original mention. Authority scores can be independently verified by running connorcedro.com through Semrush, Ahrefs, or Majestic. The referring domain data is part of every standard backlink audit. If a specific reference looks broken or you want context on a specific feature, reach out directly through the contact page and I'll send the citation details.
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