Monthly Archives: September 2007

The Will Critchlow checklist school of landing page design

Posted by Will Critchlow on September 17, 2007 in the Distilled category

SEOmoz yesterday released the long-awaited results of their landing page competition where members of the community competed to create the best landing page they could for SEOmoz premium membership. Prior to the contest, the conversion rate was only 0.5% so more >

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SEO Manchester Trip Report – More Black Hats Than Film Noir.

Posted by Tom Critchlow on September 17, 2007 in the Distilled category

So, as my loyal fans will know – I was over at Manchester this weekend for an SEO social gathering. Well, here’s the lowdown for anyone who wants to read! Friday So I arrived about 7 on Friday night at more >

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SEO mysteries: why am I linking to Borkowski?

Posted by Tom Critchlow on September 11, 2007 in the Distilled category

No, it’s not because they paid us. No, there’s no crazy reciprocal linking going on. It’s because we love experimenting here at Distilled and we’ve recently been running a bit of an experiment involving Borkowski. Borkowski are a UK based more >

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The great book giveaway: free copies of Avinash’s book

Posted by Will Critchlow on September 11, 2007 in the Reputation Monitor category

It was just over a month ago that I wrote about our book giveaway – where we promised to give away two copies of Avinash‘s book (Web Analytics in an Hour a Day. As I wrote on the 3rd August: more >

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I’m an SEO dark lord (apparently)

Posted by Will Critchlow on September 11, 2007 in the SEO category

SEOMoz have released another beautiful piece of linkbait. It is both beautiful to look at and very nicely executed: SEO quiz. But then I would say that because they have played to my ego perfectly. I got 93% making me more >

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Facebook Public Profiles Actually To Become Public?

Posted by Tom Critchlow on September 5, 2007 in the Reputation Monitor category

Ok, so assuming that you’ve kept abreast of my recent posts about Facebook public profiles (and you’re not sick of reading about Facebook) read on! (if I keep up at this rate I’ll overtake Andy Beal as unofficial facebook rumour more >

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Facebook Has a Google Penalty?

Posted by Tom Critchlow on September 3, 2007 in the Reputation Monitor category

So a few weeks ago I ran a little experiment where I allowed my facebook public profile to be indexed by the search engines, I dropped a few links to it (from this blog and from my Sphinn profile) and more >

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How should a magazine charge for its online advertising?

Posted by Will Critchlow on September 3, 2007 in the PPC category

Following on from the comedy of Youtube advertising revenues, I thought I’d share a story about advertising pricing on a smaller scale. We have considered advertising Reputation Monitor, our online media monitoring tool in PR Week seeing as it can more >

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How much revenue will Youtube make from adverts?

Posted by Will Critchlow on September 1, 2007 in the Reputation category

I found a very entertaining story while catching up with my reading on searchengineland. While estimating the impact on Google’s revenues from introducing overlay advertising on Youtube videos, Mary Meeker, superstar analyst at Morgan Stanley, made a mistake in failing more >

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A facebook for young entrepreneurs?

Posted by Will Critchlow on September 1, 2007 in the Distilled category

Richard Tyler in the Telegraph reports on a call by Make your Mark and Enterprise Coalition Campaign. Apparently: The Government should pay someone to set up a Facebook for entrepreneurs in order to help more young people turn their ideas more >

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