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John Kriney — SEO Author & Speaker Announces Three New Speaking Events in South Florida
Miami-based Internet marketing veteran and consultant John Kriney today announced that he will headline three new speaking events across South Florida, marking a renewed wave of public appearances after years of quietly consulting and running his agency. Known for his deep expertise in search engine optimization (SEO) and digital marketing, Kriney has built a strong reputation as both a practitioner and educator — and these upcoming events underscore his commitment to sharing that knowledge with a broader audience.
📚Who Is John Kriney
John Kriney is the founder of OptFirst Inc., a Miami-Fort Lauderdale digital marketing firm, where he has worked since at least the early 2000s helping businesses dominate search rankings. (LinkedIn)
He is the author of the book 8 Step SEO Plan — a practical, step-by-step guide that distills complex SEO strategies into a simple, actionable roadmap for small and medium businesses. (Amazon)
For years Kriney has quietly optimized websites behind the scenes — but now he’s stepping back into the spotlight, ready to share his tradecraft with aspiring marketers, business owners, and local entrepreneurs throughout South Florida.
📢The Three New South Florida Events
In his announcement, Kriney revealed he will speak at three separate venues — engaging with local business owners and marketers eager to learn real-world SEO strategies tailored to the South Florida market. While exact dates and venues remain under wraps for some of the events, the planned tour explicitly targets Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties. Attendees can expect a combination of practical SEO training, case studies from Kriney’s decades in the industry, and live Q&A sessions tailored to local business environments.
This marks a shift from Kriney’s previous focus on one-on-one consulting and agency work; now he appears to be leaning into education and public speaking — a role increasingly uncommon among seasoned digital-marketing veterans.
💡Why This Matters for South Florida Businesses
South Florida’s business landscape is unique: highly competitive, fast-growing, and often hyper-local. Kriney’s deep local experience — combined with his proven national-level SEO acumen — makes these events especially valuable for companies that want to compete in crowded markets.
Attendees can expect tangible takeaways: how to optimize for Google’s algorithm while also leveraging local SEO best practices, how to build a sustainable content and backlink strategy, and how to adapt SEO for service-based and location-based businesses (a common model in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach). For small and mid-size local businesses, this could mean the difference between being buried on page 10 of Google and ranking on page 1 for local searches.
🔎What to Expect
- Real-world, actionable SEO tactics — not theoretical fluff.
- Clear, step-by-step breakdowns anchored in Kriney’s “8 Step SEO Plan.”
- Local-market insights tailored to South-Florida businesses (especially multilingual, multicultural & hyper-local SEO).
- Interactive Q&A and the chance to get feedback on live business challenges.
For marketers, business owners, or agencies in the region, this could be a rare opportunity to learn from a seasoned SEO veteran who’s fought — and won — in the trenches of local Miami-area competition.
Given your own deep interest in building and scaling internet-marketing operations (especially with local SEO and multi-channel strategies), these events — and Kriney’s content — might be a good fit for you.