About Jean-Hugues Bretin

I started on Internet in 1998, at the time I knew I wanted to do something different, something new. My Brother was starting a cd pressing and mastering company and got me interested in what he was doing. I guess this is what gave me the idea of going toward this direction. I did a short multimedia training and started learning what websites were all about. Left Nantes, my hometown, and headed to Paris; where I knew things would be a bit ahead compare with rest of France.
From 1999 until now, I worked on many web agencies as HTML coder : Babel, Machination, Business Lab, Business interactif, etc.
Since 2007, I’m SEO Manager, and my job is entirely dedicated to improve visibility and search engine’s best rankings for clients I work for. Helter skelter, I would mention Havana Club, Havana Cultura, G7, TMC.tv, Bruno Saint Hilaire, etc.
I feel like internet is an amazing media, offering what every other media has in one single piece. This is probably why it doesn’t seem to have a start nor an end. In this never ending story, you have to understand how every aspect of a website has an impact on visitors and how it is perceived. I don’t feel like I should see myself only as a SEO manager, but also I have the responsibility of focusing on user experience, accessibility, and usability, focusing on web standards.
I am a strong supporter of the concept of “Findability” created by Peter Morville and brilliantly supported by Aaron Walter in his book “Building Websites Findable“. I have a good experience of how work search engines, this gives me a solid advance to perform a great presence on the web today and tomorrow.
Autonomous, curious and motivated, I have also a great experience in organization and processes in project mode and teamwork, practiced diligently in several web agencies for over 10 years.
Findability Expert & Seo Manager.
- Website: http://www.seomanager.fr
- Twitter : http://twitter.com/seo_manager
- Friend feed : http://friendfeed.com/seomanager
- Posterous : http://posterous.com/seomanager
- Blog URL: http://www.seomanager.fr/seo-news
- Tumblr : http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/seomanager
- Bit.ly : http://bit.ly/user/recent/seomanager
I think, I have a grounded approach of what a website is made of, and it helps to be a good search optimization manager.
