Van Buskirk has been doing 360-degree SEO for 18 years. His recent article, "260k Search Results Analyzed: Here’s How Google Evaluates Your Content," was the most-read piece on Search Engine Journal for June 2024. The small-tome of an article (4000+ words) was based on a huge on-page SEO rank study he did. It's also all about the state of ranking in the age of AI and HCU.Van Buskirk oversaw nine of the largest content marketing data studies of of the the last decade. Articles with methods, results, and actionable insights were published on clients' website. The main focus for the studies were keywords in SEO, semantic SEO, and how links affect search engine ranking.He founded ClickStream, an SEO and data-driven content strategy agency. He uses his bleeding-edge knowledge of Google ranking signals for clients in USA and Europe. He was the Project Director for the largest search engine ranking study ever conducted. The client was Brian Dean of Backlinko.The study looked at a big-data sample of 1,000,000 Google organic search results and analyzed them via big data from ahrefs, SEMrush, SimilarWeb, MarketMuse, and Alexa. It was the number one upvoted piece of Q1 2016 on inbound.org and GrowthHackers.com. Van Buskirk started building awareness for brands and driving sales with digital media in 1996 for Barnes & Noble's first website. He is a search engine data fanatic. At SEMrush he worked with clients to customize sets of millions of URLs, keywords, and associated metrics for trend analysis. He's a regular contributor for Search Engine Journal.The ClickStream.cc website is a widely read resource started over 12 years ago with information about the intersection of SEO and content strategy. At VIUS, Van Buskirk developed partnerships with traditional marketing agencies that brought ongoing digital media project opportunities to the interactive agency.He started ClickStream Marketing, Inc., an interactive agency in Cebu, Philippines, which grew to 15 employees over a three-year period from 2005 to 2008. He built a partnership between Delphi.com and Hasbro which resulted in the largest web forum in Summer, 1999.He has much experience managing staff, including overseeing operations for Metropolitan Opera telephone fundraising: Four supervisors and 35 part-time, paid fundraisers were direct reports.