{"id":3136,"date":"2012-06-21T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=3136"},"modified":"2012-09-23T18:04:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T16:04:57","slug":"neil-pursey","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker\/neil-pursey\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Pursey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ancr\" name=\"neil\">&nbsp;<\/a>Neil is the owner of <a title=\"WebGrowth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webgrowth.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebGrowth<\/a>, co-partner in <a title=\"Foxy Tonic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxytonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foxy Tonic<\/a> and co-partner in the <a title=\"GROW Academy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grow.org.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">GROW Academy<\/a>. He is passionate about search and website usability. He discovered SEO by chance in a previous business of his, realising the need for SEO skills in South Africa he founded WebGrowth in 2006. He has a deep desire for helping businesses succeed through search marketing as well as education &amp; social development. He came across WordPress in 2008 and has never personally built a website in anything else besides it since then. Follow him on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/neil.pursey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/1\/106375251211013604438\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">Plus<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/webgrowthsa\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/za.linkedin.com\/in\/webgrowth\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/session\/are-social-metrics-really-affecting-seo\/\">Are Social metrics really affecting SEO?<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 11:30 \u2013 11:55<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"standard-icon social\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/neil-pursey\/\">Speaker Spotlight<\/a><a class=\"facebook-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/neil.pursey\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a class=\"googleplus-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/1\/106375251211013604438\/posts\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/webgrowthsa\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a class=\"linkedin-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/webgrowth\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Neil is the owner of WebGrowth, co-partner in Foxy Tonic and co-partner in the GROW Academy. He is passionate about search and website usability. He discovered SEO by chance in a previous business of his, realising the need for SEO &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker\/neil-pursey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Neil Pursey<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7694169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_user_name":"purse9644","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-3136","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheWZl-OA","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bec0e764102060429da5047af9302d5c22ec2b87e9580eca847d69b5247cea98?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bec0e764102060429da5047af9302d5c22ec2b87e9580eca847d69b5247cea98?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bec0e764102060429da5047af9302d5c22ec2b87e9580eca847d69b5247cea98?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bec0e764102060429da5047af9302d5c22ec2b87e9580eca847d69b5247cea98?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bec0e764102060429da5047af9302d5c22ec2b87e9580eca847d69b5247cea98?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bec0e764102060429da5047af9302d5c22ec2b87e9580eca847d69b5247cea98?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7694169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5747,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3136\/revisions\/5747"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4858?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}