Digital Marketing Consultants, Search Engine Optimization,
Paid Media Consultant – San Francisco Bay Area and beyond
Meet Suse Barnes: Search Marketing Consultant, Social Media Marketing Author, Professor and Your Digital Marketing Partner
Suse Barnes is a Digital Marketing Consultant specializing in search engine optimization, paid search (Google Ads) and social media marketing. With twenty-six years experience in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has been optimizing websites for search engines since before Google was invented, consults with businesses throughout the United States and teaches at University of San Francisco and has taught classes at several universities in the Bay Area.
Suse is the president and founder of Susby Digital Marketing, LLC (formerly Susby Internet Solutions.) Located in Oakland in the San Francisco Bay Area, Susby has worked with a variety of clients including ABC7 News Bay Area (a Disney Company), Aventi Group (SAP, Veza), Blue & Gold Fleet, Dolby Laboratories, E29 Marketing (Chicken of the Sea, Evivo, Foster Farms, Genova Seafood, HMR Program, Infraway, Nutriba, Sobrius Holistic Recovery, Tiger Balm, Westrock Coffee), Ember the Agency (MURAL, PartsBadger, Unit21), Fash Counseling, Handle Financial (PayNearMe), GRAIL Magazine, Netfira, PIER 39, SUSE, Village Associates Real Estate.
Suse enjoys teaching and strives to have her clients and students understand how they can use newer technologies to promote their businesses and increase awareness for clients. Suse has held various digital marketing roles including project manager, designer, developer and lead online marketer for various small to medium sized businesses.
“…We partner with you to achieve your marketing and business goals.
Two minds are better than a guru…..”
– Suse Barnes
Digital Marketing Services:
- Digital Marketing Consulting
- Digital brand strategy – Strategy for promoting your brand on the online
- Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing (SEO and SEM – Paid Search, PPC, Search Advertising)
- Answer Engine Optimization, Generative Engine Optimization AI Search Optimization
- Social Media Marketing Strategy and Implementation
- Paid Media – Social Media Advertising, Google Ads
- Web Analytics and Social Media Analysis and Reporting
- Website Design, Development and Maintenance
- Corporate Training and Workshops on New Technologies
Author and Professor
Suse is the author of Like, Follow, Share: Awesome, Actionable Social Media Marketing to Maximize Your Online Potential published by Tycho Press in 2015.
Suse is currently an Adjunct Professor at University of San Francisco where she teaches Social Media and Innovation in Advertising in the Advertising department and Digital Marketing in the Business school.
Suse was a founding instructor, co-program advisor and instructor for San Francisco State University’s Social Media Marketing Program. She taught in the Marketing Program at SF State for several years and her classes included Search Engine Marketing: SEO and SEM and Metrics, Measurement and Evaluation.
She served on the faculty at California State University East Bay’s Social Media Marketing Program where she taught two social media marketing courses – Social Media Marketing, Metrics and Tracking and Reputation Management, Crisis Communications and Legal Issues in Social Media Marketing.
Suse has also been a Professor at Hult International Business School where she taught Digital Marketing and Social Media and Digital Tools for Advanced Marketing Research in San Francisco. And at Notre Dame de Namur in Belmont, California she taught Introduction to Advertising.
Life Long Learner
In 2025 Suse achieved a Masters of Data Analytics and Visualization from the MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art). She is currently learning as much as she can about artificial intelligence.
Suse received Bachelor’s degrees, Pi Kappa Lambda in Music and Studio Art from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and College and also holds a Master’s degree in Clarinet Performance from Northwestern University. Her Certificate in Internet Design and Technology from San Francisco State University’s Multimedia Studies Program is where her career in digital marketing started and also where she was awarded the Robert Bell Award for outstanding achievement. She is also Web Analytics Master Certified from Market Motive.
Suse is a (former) marathon runner and has played clarinet in various San Francisco Bay Area classical music groups.
Her latest venture into the unknown is as a podcast host.
SUSE BARNES