About Mark Hodson

I have been a journalist for 20 years and a freelance travel writer on The Sunday Times in London since 1994. During that time I have visited more than 70 countries and had more than 500 articles published.

I am known for my consumer journalism, including a string of high-profile campaigns I have managed for The Sunday Times, including the Clean Up Car Hire campaign in 2006.

In 2005 I was the first travel journalist to report back from the Maldives after the tsunami. In the following weeks I filed on-the-spot reports from stricken areas of Sri Lanka and Thailand.

I have won several writing awards, including Best National Newspaper Feature at the 2006 Caribbean Travel Writing Awards.

I have been writing about the internet for The Sunday Times since 1997, with a particular interest in search. I also work as a web copywriter and SEO (search engine optimisation) consultant.

You can read my Sunday Times articles here.

There's only one Mark Hodson

I like to think there's only one Mark Hodson. In fact there are dozens of us.

One runs a company called Distinction Travel (nothing to do with me). Another takes saucy photographs (definitely not me). There's a geochemist, a motorbike enthusiast, a financial advisor and another who brought shame to the name by stealing £1.8m from his frail mother.

You'll find them all on Google if you look far enough down the results pages. I, of course, am number one. How did I make that happen? It's called SEO. Find out more here.

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