About Alchemist Media

Alchemist Media, Inc. is a successful SEO and search engine marketing company with offices in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. Our approach to organic search engine optimization is just that - organic. We work closely with our clients to create and maintain content-rich, well-performing web sites that maximize their business's potential for exposure through index-based search engine positioning. By working with Alchemist, you are engaging expert level SEO services, as our search engine optimization efforts are based on over ten years of search engine optimization and marketing experience, and we place additional emphasis on ROI analysis in management of SEO and PPC campaigns, optimization of press releases, link building, and more.

With offices in Northern and Southern California, our search engine marketing clients range from small and large online retailers and B to B operations, to local colleges and small businesses. Alchemist has been featured for the past five years in BtoB's Top 100 Search Engine Marketing Companies in the US. In addition, our team consists of industry experts who speak regularly at internet business conferences worldwide, including ad:tech, Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo, Webmaster World's PubCon, WebGuild, Shop.org, and others.

If you would like more information about our services, please Submit a Contact Form or contact us by phone at (415) 777-ALCH (2524).

Jessie Stricchiola, Founder & CEO

As the founder of Alchemist, Jessie began her search engine optimization career in 1997. After moving to Los Angeles in 1999, she started Alchemist Media, which has now expanded into the San Francisco Bay Area.

For the past seven years she has been a guest speaker at search industry conferences including Incisive Media's Search Engine Strategies Conferences, Danny Sullivan's Search Marketing Expo, WebmasterWorld's PubCon, ad:Tech, Web 2.0 Summit, and Shop.org. As one of the original nine founders of SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization), she served two years on the Board of Directors for the organization.

Jessie has been quoted in numerous trade publications and media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, Wired Magazine, The Washington Post, CNET.com, and has been featured on NBC Nightly News, NPR, and The BBC. She is currently co-authoring The Art of SEO, a book to be published by O'Reilly Media.

Interviews & Articles

Click Fraud: Problem & Paranoia - Wired.com


Web Marketers Fearful of Fraud in Pay-Per-Click - NY Times


Click Fraud Threat Looms - CNN
February 15, 2005

Google CFO: Fraud a Big Threat - CNN Money


Google Gets Gruff Over Click Fraud - CNET/News.com


With Each Technology Advance, a Scourge - NY Times

New Attacks & Defenses in Click Fraud War - Datamation


Lost Per Click - SearchDay


Exposing Click Fraud -CNET/News.com


Google Searches for Winning Ad Strategy -CNET/News.com


SEMPO -SearchEngineWatch.com Report


Can Google Save America Online? -CNET/News.com


Boston SES Wrap-Up - WebMasterWorld.com


For Paid Search, Feedback is Essential -Internet.com


All the Search That's Fit to Print? -CNET/News.com


The Google Gods -CNET/News.com


Perfecting Paid Listings -SearchEngineWatch.com Report


Google May Let Surfers Rank Search Results -CNET/News.com