Archive for the ‘Distilled Blog’ Category
Think Visibility September 2010 -Top Takeaways
Monday, September 6, 2010 12:16 1 CommentThe latest Think Visibility conference was held over the weekend and yet again, it was a great conference. I made my speaking debut at the last Think Visibility but this time I wasn’t speaking which meant I was a lot more relaxed this time round!
Here are my key takeaways from the conference. Big thanks [...]
Thoughts on the #Mozinar from Distilled’s Attendees
Friday, September 3, 2010 13:51 No CommentsSome of the Distilled team was lucky enough to be present for the awesome SEOmoz Pro Training Seminars here in Seattle. Feedback from the event is overwhelmingly positive amongst all attendees, and the Distilled folks are no exception.
In chatting with some of the attendees I noticed that many people made strong connections with various particular [...]
Rapid Protoyping with the SEOmoz API
Thursday, September 2, 2010 14:22 No CommentsI am out in Seattle for the SEOmoz PRO seminar (don’t forget to come to the London seminar!) where the second day has kicked off with two of the best presentations I’ve seen in a long time from Seth Besmertnik from Conductor and Wil Reynolds from Seer Interactive. Feeling the pressure a little bit for [...]
5 Laws That Fuel Your Procrastination
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 14:55 No CommentsDo you ever set out to do a task, and 3 hours later you’ve done just about everything else except the thing you originally set out to do? Join the club.
I’ve found myself having a number of conversations recently about productivity. And a quick search online revealed a shed-load of time management and [...]
Turning Technical Mistakes into Human Relations
Thursday, August 26, 2010 18:06 1 CommentSometimes things just break. In this day and age, servers crash, websites are hacked, and new programs go haywire. At its worst, hackers can get access to private client information. It is moments like these when a company is truly tested. So many try to cover up mistakes, sweep them under the rug, or just [...]
Free Directory Submission: What to Avoid, Tips & Tricks
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 19:12 No CommentsFree Directory Submission: What to Avoid, Tips & Tricks
Looking for quick easy links? Be careful what you wish for…
Despite rumours, directory listings are still useful! These listings help diversify your link portfolio and will help boost rankings when used with other link building methods such as:
Articles
Link bait
Blogging
What to Avoid
Signs of dodgy directories:
The directory [...]
Facebook Places – Implied Consent?
Thursday, August 19, 2010 21:53 3 CommentsGood morning!
I Just wanted to update you all on the wonderful new feature over at Facebook- Facebook Places.
Facebook Places clearly has potential- massive user base, loads of opportunity for geo-targeted special (as has been masterfully created by Foursquare, Gowalla and other products).
However, as has been a growing concern for many users, there are lots of [...]
Market Research using Facebook Ads
Monday, August 16, 2010 23:28 No CommentsFacebook: Free Market Research
No, not scraping my friends. There is a legitimate way to get some great market information from Facebook and I’m going to show you how. It all starts with the nifty invention of Facebook Ads, which was designed to help businesses target their audience based on demographics and other factors. It attracted Facebook spammers, [...]
Behavioral Re-Targeting – Good or Bad for the Web – Sam vs Paddy
Saturday, August 14, 2010 1:06 No CommentsToday we have a face-off between Sam and Paddy. After many heated discussions in the office it seemed like it would make an interesting post to put both sides of the argument side by side on the blog. First, for those of you who are not familiar with what behavioral re-targeting is, here is a [...]
The Wonderful World of Wonder Wheel
Friday, August 13, 2010 1:39 4 CommentsI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, PPC and SEO need to get along. Why? There are such awesome tools on each side that can benefit the other. Not to mention the wealth of information from one that can feed results in the other. Case and point today is a tool that has [...]
Getting Over the Speaking Jitters
Friday, August 6, 2010 5:21 5 Comments
From Psychology Today
Had anyone told me when I was getting into high school that I would be speaking at marketing conferences in New York and London, I’d laugh in your face. That would be after turning bright red.
So I still turn bright red today (it’s part of being pale) but I am much more calm [...]
Are You A Victim Of Inception?
Thursday, August 5, 2010 5:55 1 CommentHas Someone Been Planting Ideas In Your Head And Making Them Seem Like Your Own?
Are You Sure?
WARNING: This Post Contains Spoilers (And The Links Out Contain Some Serious Ones!)
This season’s blockbuster, Inception, is set in the future where it’s possible for people to enter shared dreams and uncover their deepest secrets, in a process known [...]
Dr. Pepper: What’s the Worst That Can Happen?
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 6:26 5 CommentsWhat’s the worst that could happen when one of the world’s most famous brands launches a witty, edgy and innovative social media campaign?
It manages to promote hardcore scatological porn to a 14-year-old.
Actually, that’s not the worst.
Worse than that is that the 14 year old’s mother is a “Mumsnetter” – a poster on the UK’s most [...]
BlueGlassLA Conference Recap
Friday, July 30, 2010 9:06 No CommentsLast week I attended BlueGlass LA, a new online marketing conference put on by BlueGlass, the newly formed agency based out of Tampa, FL.
Wait, you’re blogging about and linking to your competitors?
Yes. We love competition. It drives us to be better all the time, and there are more than enough companies that need good search [...]
Lessons Learned from Two Weeks at Distilled
Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:41 No CommentsMy name’s Ed Fry, I’m 16 years old and I’ve had the opportunity to spend two weeks in the Distilled office in Cannon Street, working with the SEO team. Besides learning more advanced search optimization skills, just commuting across London at rush hour was a mission in itself – I ended up hopelessly off-course on [...]
Highlights of #BrightonSEO Conference 23rd July 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:42 No CommentsI was back from my annual leave just in time to attend the 3rd Brighton SEO event which was held on 23rd July 2010. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, Brighton SEO is a half day mini conference and is organised by Kelvin Newman of Site Visibility. Not only does [...]
Running Competitions for Links – #BrightonSEO presentation
Monday, July 26, 2010 11:15 No CommentsFirst of all, I just wanted to give a big thank you to Kelvin Newman for putting together a really enjoyable #BrightonSEO conference on Friday. The event was well attended, well covered and offered a lot of new offerings for the folks in attendance… and best of all, it was free!
There were a number of [...]
YouTube Insight: Film critic reviews for your video now included!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 14:31 No CommentsWouldn’t it be nice if you could find out if people liked your video, or hated it so much that they left right after the first scene? YouTube can answer that.
Welcome to Insight. Insight is a free innovative tool available in your YouTube account that essentially transforms your videos into focus groups, giving you detailed statistics [...]
Data Inaccuracies in Indexed Pages Lists
Saturday, July 17, 2010 16:03 No CommentsA client recently asked if there was a way to identify which pages in their site were not being indexed. Google, Bing and Yahoo all have very different systems and getting a definitive answer from any of them is next to impossible. Anyone that has done research on indexed pages in the past 10 years know that [...]
Silverfish Handcatch!! So Ends The Greatest Viral Ever
Thursday, July 15, 2010 17:08 No CommentsAs I write this, Sam is busy delivering meme training for the company. For those interested in memes, social media and viral videos there really are no words to describe how immensely, insanely amazing the old spice campaign has been. This video sums up the whole thing:
Silverfish Handcatch!
To make this post useful in some way [...]
