Misc
Why would Google want to buy Groupon
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Its been quite big news this week – and certainly raised a couple of eyebrows both within the SEO community and the wider business world. Prices for the acquisition vary between $2.5 Billion and $6 Billion depending on what day of the week it appears to be – however there is no doubting [...]
A tragic loss to the industry – RIP Jaamit
{lang: ‘en-GB’} News has broken that Jaamit Durrani, one of the rising stars of the UK SEO scene died last night. News is still scarce as to what has actually happened but I can’t put into words how sad it is to hear of his loss – someone who I met at a number of [...]
Hotpot or Hotnot – A new social layer
{lang: ‘en-GB’} When Eric Schmidt eluded to Google.me comprising of social layers rather than a full blow social network , many in the industry wondered as to how this would manifest itself within the Googlesphere. Very much the layers of an onion we are slowly starting to see the Google layers starting to unravel, layer [...]
New day,new opportunity
{lang: ‘en-GB’} There has been a lot of people who have asked me recently about what is happening with me. I can confirm that I am leaving Mediavest Manchester after nearly two and a half fantastic years as their Head of SEO. It wasn’t a particularly easy decision to make but my new destination provided [...]
Attribution modelling – times are a changing
{lang: ‘en-GB’} There used to be a time when as marketeers, us SEO’s sat as a very siloed bunch – but times have changed and continue to change at breakneck speed. SEO techniques are increasingly more sophisticated, and with it the way SEO practioners measure and evaluate campaign success, something we covered during a recent [...]
Integrated search – the future of SEO?
{lang: ‘en-GB’} There has been a lot of drivel written over the last couple of weeks – magnified by the Google Instant launch at the beginning of September. Interestingly many of these have centered on the ‘SEO is dead’ angle, the first being Steve Rubel from Edelman and more recently one from Techmap profisicing the [...]
Think Visibility: Linkbuilding in Real Life – Jaamit Durrani
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Unfortunately due to discussions with both Shaun (Hoboweb) and Dave Naylor I missed the beginning of Jaamit’s session on link building, however he did fortunately put this online. I would however add, that there are a number of important takeaways from here Build your good links as well as your ‘noise’ links Guest [...]
Think Visibility: Keyword Domains and Mini-sites – Gary Taylor
{lang: ‘en-GB’} First serious panel at the day with Gary Taylor (a Think Visibility speaking virgin) – covering a number of aspects to keyword domains and mini-sites. Gary is a domainer – who buys, sells and developers domain names. His first slides covering the basics of keyword domains, namely Exact Match is essential Localised domains [...]
Think Visibility: Mel Carson – Earning and Learning
{lang: ‘en-GB’} For the first time I have attended Dom Hodgson’s Think Visibility conference over in Leeds. Despite the fact I am one of the founders of Sascon over here in Manchester, I always like to get behind other North West ventures – and Dom’s conference is one of the better ones around. Following a [...]
Optimising your Youtube video submissions for maximum organic traction
{lang: ‘en-GB’} I do a lot of work with F1 Commentator James Allen, something which has allowed me to enhance my skills across a number of avenues I would not easily have access to. In particular social media has played an increasingly growing part in that strategy, not least Youtube. We have done a number [...]
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