I can’t believe I am writing another post about another soul in the search marketing space passing away at an early age. Bob Gladstein, someone who has been part of the search community for probably two-decades or so, unexpectedly passed Friday night at the age of 57.

Bob went under the Twitter alias of @bubba_ji and you can see, he was replying to SEO questions on Twitter just last week. His Twitter bio summed him up well, “Organic SEO guy; Unhipster from a hipster town.” He was super active in the old SEO forums, like HighRankings Forums and others. He was just a genuine and good guy.

Julie Joyce, from Link Fish Media, sent me this about her friend Bob:

His employer wrote this:

Here is more:

There are a lot more stories and comments about him on Facebook – I can see it, but I am friends with him on that platform. I cannot share the private messages here but it is so sad to read.

Bob – you will be deeply missed by the SEO community.

Forum discussion at Twitter.