Deltina Hay

Deltina Hay (born 1960) is an American author, web developer and the author of books involving search engine optimization and marketing tactics. She serves as a board member for the Independent Book Publishers Association where she is an invited board member of the Internet Marketing Standards Board. She has been considered a pioneer of Web 2.0.

Career

Hay is a professor at Drury University, where she teaches courses on Web 2.0 and social media courses. Hay is the author of four books. She contributed to online publications Technorati, SocialMedia.biz, and Six Revisions. Hay was a major contributor to the IBPA's Publishing University 2009 BookExpo America held in New York City.

She was also the founder and principal of Dalton Publishing, a publishing company that specialized in poetry and contemporary literature. Dalton Publishing has published nearly 20 books. Dalton Publishing returned all book rights to its authors in 2012 and ceased operation. Hay started two blog sites: Social Media Power and Mobile Web Slinger. (2011) The Bootstrapper's Guide to the Mobile Web: Practical Plans to Get Your Business Mobile in Just a Few Days for Just a Few Bucks (2012) The Bootstrapper's Guide to the New Search Optimization: Mastering the New Rules of Organic Search Using Relevancy, Context, and Semantics (2013)