About
Simon Schnieders is a search marketing expert focused on the discipline of SEO primarily. His background includes affiliate marketing, SEM, social media and monetizing sites. Schnieders is the founder of the UK's largest pure-play SEO agency, Blue Array. Previously he was Head of SEO for Zoopla.co.uk, (0-7 years £1billion IPO) driving the websites largest traffic source into double digit million numbers. Between 2009-11 he worked at European Directories, a pan-European IYP and lead generation company & between 2008-9 is recognized for driving the growth surge in search engine traffic for the UK's number one newspaper website, Mail Online, (dailymail.co.uk) in 2009. Other sites he's worked on for SEO include, thisismoney.co.uk, metro.co.uk, www.localpeople.co.uk and yell.com.
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 1,349 investors hold the Founder and CEO role in VCSift. Simon Schnieders is one of them.
- • 43 investors are based in Reading, Reading, United Kingdom.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- seed
- Location
- Reading, UK
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