David Rodnitzky Vice President of Strategy
PPCAdBuying is a boutique search engine marketing consulting firm located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Our principal consultant - David Rodnitzky - received a BA with honors from the University of Chicago and a JD with honors from the University of Iowa. Upon graduating law school in 1999, he moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in online marketing.
From 2000 to 2001, David was Director of Marketing at Rentals.com, an apartment rental web site funded by Sequoia Capital and Softbank Venture Partners. While at Rentals.com, David launched the Company’s first paid search campaigns with GoTo.com (now Yahoo Search Marketing), driving more than 10,000 qualified visitors a day to the Company’s site. In addition to search engine marketing, David also oversaw public relations and branding
at Rentals.com.
After leaving Rentals.com in 2001, David joined FindLaw - the largest legal Web site - as Senior Manager of Search Marketing. At FindLaw, David was responsible for all aspects of search marketing and public relations. His marketing efforts resulted in an increase in monthly visitors to the site from 1.4 million unique visitors monthly to more than 4.8 million unique visitors. FindLaw’s search efforts were recognized by Google in 2003 when the company asked David to present to the entire AdWords team at the first ever Google Client Forum.
In 2004, David joined Adteractive, an online lead generation company, as Director of Search Marketing. At Adteractive, David grew search marketing from less than $250,000 of revenue a month to fifteen straight months of revenue over $1,000,000 a month. He grew his search marketing team from two to eight team members and was promoted to Senior Director after barely a year at the Company. At Adteractive, he was recognized as a Google AdWords Professional and a Yahoo Search Marketing Platinum Ambassador.
David then joined Mercantila, an online retailer, in January of 2007 as Vice President of Advertising. At Mercantila, David was responsible for all search engine marketing, affiliate marketing, SEO, marketplaces, and email marketing. David managed an advertising team in San Francisco as well as in Bangalore, India. In less than nine months he doubled the Company’s monthly profit from advertising and negotiated business development relationships with eBay and Amazon.
In 2008, David founded PPCAdBuying as a way to offer his paid search expertise to as many companies as possible.
You can read David’s thoughts on search engine marketing on his blog, Blogation.net, on Search Marketing Standard, and on DMConfidential.com.
David lives in Pacifica, California with his wife and cat.
Mike Doan Director of Web Development
Mike Doan has more than four years of Web design and development experience. Since 2005 he has worked for RedOctane (now a subsidiary of Activision), creators of the internationally best-selling video games Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, and Guitar Hero III.
Prior to joining RedOctane, Mike received a BA from the University of California, Davis. Mike lives in Santa Clara, California.