About Alchemist Media

Alchemist Media, Inc. is a successful Los Angeles SEO company with offices in LA and San Francisco, selected for the past six years by BtoB Online as one o the Top 100 Search Engine Marketing Companies in the US. SEO is both an art and a science, and 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 rankings. Our search engine optimization expertise is based on over twelve years of search engine optimization and marketing experience.

Our SEO clients range from small and large online retailers and B to B operations to small businesses and non profit organizations. 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 Request 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 worked in-house as an SEO Director two years before starting started Alchemist Media - which has now expanded into the San Francisco Bay Area.

Since 2002 she has been a guest speaker at search industry conferences including ad:Tech, Incisive Media's Search Engine Strategies Conferences, Danny Sullivan's Search Marketing Expo (SMX), WebmasterWorld's PubCon, The O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit, and Shop.org. In addition, she is one of the original nine founders of SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization), and served two years on the Board of Directors for the organization, during which time she also served as Membership Committee Chair.

Jessie's pioneering work on click fraud 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 was the lead expert consultant in the click fraud class action suit against Google and Yahoo!, and is currently co-authoring an SEO book entitled The Art of SEO, with Rand Fishkin, Stephan Spencer, and Eric Enge, to be published by O'Reilly Media in 2009.

Click Fraud 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


Ifa: Yoruba Orisa & Gods


Perfecting Paid Listings -SearchEngineWatch.com Report


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