{"id":10592,"date":"2026-06-27T05:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=10592"},"modified":"2026-06-27T05:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:39:52","slug":"bruce-clay-has-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=10592","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Clay has Passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In Memory of the Father of SEO\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NyAbJC8QmeE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p> <p>\u00a0<\/p> <p dir=\"auto\">It is with profound sadness that we inform you of the recent passing of our owner, Bruce Clay.<\/p> <p dir=\"auto\">Bruce built the company 30 years ago and shaped the SEO industry as we know it with passion and dedication.<\/p> <p dir=\"auto\">His vision will continue to guide our team and collegues for years to come.<\/p> <p dir=\"auto\">-Bruce Clay, Inc. Team<\/p> <section class=\"blog-author-bio\" aria-label=\"About the author\"> <div class=\"blog-author-desc\"> <p> See Mike&#8217;s author page for links to connect on social media. <\/p> <\/p><\/div> <div> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4554b629df16182010ad88d2671cd5674557ec4443517709345f9ef83d3e30e4?s=96&amp;d=retro&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4554b629df16182010ad88d2671cd5674557ec4443517709345f9ef83d3e30e4?s=192&amp;d=retro&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" title=\"Bruce Clay has Passed\u63d2\u56fe\" alt=\"Bruce Clay has Passed\u63d2\u56fe\" \/> <\/div> <\/section><\/div> <div> <p>Posted by Mike Terry on June 26th, 2026 at 1:46 pm<\/p> <div class=\"\" style=\"background: #b8d6d8;padding: 20px;\"> <h3>26,000+ professionals, marketers and SEOs read the Bruce Clay Blog<\/h3> <p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subscribe now for free to get:<\/p> <ul>&#13;<\/p> <li>Expert SEO insights from the &#8220;Father of SEO.&#8221;<\/li> <p>&#13;<\/p> <li>Proven SEO strategies to optimize website performance.<\/li> <p>&#13;<\/p> <li>SEO advice to earn more website traffic, higher search ranking and increased revenue.<\/li> <p>&#13; <\/ul> <\/p><\/div> <\/p><\/div> <p><script> !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script', ' fbq('init', '462813240575787'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); <\/script>SEO#Bruce #Clay #Passed1782509992<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 It is with profound sadness that we inform you of the recent passing of our owner, Bruce Clay. Bruce built the company 30 years ago and shaped the SEO industry as we know it with passion and dedication. His vision will continue to guide our team and collegues for years to come. -Bruce Clay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[42148,42149,25143],"class_list":["post-10592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital","tag-bruce","tag-clay","tag-passed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}