John Lincoln, MBA

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

John Lincoln, MBA, is Co-Founder and CEO of Ignite Visibility, a teacher at UC San Diego, a keynote speaker, the 2017 Search Engine Land “Search Marketer of the Year” and one of the top digital marketing consultants in the industry. Lincoln eats, sleeps, lives and breaths digital marketing and brings that enthusiasm and drive to the entire Ignite Visibility team.

Through years of hard work, Ignite Visibility has become a well-known leader in SEO, PPC, social media, PR, email and CRO. Founded on the principals of relationships, responsiveness and results, Ignite was named the #1 SEO company (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020) in the USA, UK and Canada by Clutch.co, top 10 digital marketing companies in the USA, one of the fastest growing private companies in San Diego (4 years in a row), is a 4 time Inc. 5000 company and has been named the number 1 PPC company in the nation. Lincoln was also the recipient of the San Diego Business Journals “Most Admired CEO” award and Ignite Visibility was named one of the San Diego Business Journals “Best Places To Work.”

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Proven, Dedicated and Experienced

With over 15 years of demanding industry experience, Lincoln has worked on near 1,000 digital marketing campaigns, and has had the pleasure of working with some of the biggest websites online. Lincoln has authored thousands of articles, taken hundreds of websites to number one positions in Google for competitive keywords, built social communities to millions of members, worked on over 100 projects in conversion rate optimization and has spearheaded many advanced projects in Amazon, SEM, influencer marketing, email and affiliate marketing. Lincoln is constantly studying the latest trends to find what has the highest impact for clients, researching 1 to 3 hours every day.

Lincoln recently published Digital Influencer, a best-selling book on Amazon in the marketing category, created “SEO: The Movie,” a documentary about the search engine optimization industry and “Social Media Marketing: The Movie,” a film which interviews top social media experts to create the perfect strategy for business.

Noted results Lincoln has achieved for clients:

Increasing residual revenue from organic search by over 3 million dollars in a single quarter.
Getting number 1 rankings in Google terms such as “Coupons, Hot Tubs, Engagement Rings, Motorcycle Parts, Motocross, Skin Care” and more.
Growing a client’s Facebook following from 10,000 fans to over 1,100,000 fans and growing Facebook leads by over 780%.
Increasing a client’s conversion rate by 180% leading to best month of sales in company history.
Increasing client online leads by over 750% in one year through local search engine optimization.
Increasing a client’s email captures by 4,000 emails a month.

Lincoln has taught digital marketing at UC San Diego since 2010. He is a corporate trainer and a writer for Inc., Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, Search Engine Land and more. Lincoln has been featured on Forbes, KUSI and more. He is an in-demand speaker, speaking at 1 to 2 events a month.

Education

Lincoln holds an M.B.A. in Finance from Alliant International University and a B.A. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz. He is Google Analytics certified and AdWords Certified. His business mission is to help others through online marketing. He also loves to surf and play soccer.