Monthly Archives: January 2008

SES and SMX both fail at it… Is SEO for conference sites really this hard?

Posted by Tom Critchlow on January 29, 2008 in the SEO category

Conference SEO – the practice of doing SEO for a site devoted to running a yearly conference. Applies to other regular events too I suppose, not just conferences. Turns out even the masters of SEO can’t get this one right more >

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Search for Googol on Yahoo!

Posted by Will Critchlow on January 29, 2008 in the SEO category

Just a quick funny for a Tuesday morning. It made me giggle: Search for ‘googol’ (the number that is 10^100) on Yahoo! and it asks if you meant ‘Google’ (that little search company). Google doesn’t do this…

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Interview with Peter “Dr. Pete” Meyers

Posted by Will Critchlow on January 28, 2008 in the Interviews category

Peter Meyers is an expert in website usability and is better known to many around the worlds of usability and SEO as ‘Dr. Pete’ (not without cause – see below). He is the head honcho of User Effect and he more >

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A new look for the Distilled website and blog

Posted by Will Critchlow on January 28, 2008 in the Distilled category

I have just promoted the changes that should mean everything is looking shiny and new around here. We hope you like it! If you notice anything a bit squiffy, please refresh your browser (just hit F5) to make sure you more >

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Why SEOs should care about the US spectrum auctions

Posted by Will Critchlow on January 27, 2008 in the Mobile category

At the end of last week, we heard the news that the initial bids in the FCC’s auction of 700MHz spectrum reached $2.4 billion. This auction is being run to reallocate spectrum previously used for analogue TV that has been more >

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Join in and do your bit to get rid of ripoffreport from the SERPS

Posted by Will Critchlow on January 24, 2008 in the Reputation category

As I wrote earlier, ripoffreport.com is finally getting some serious push-back from people in the reputation management / SEO industry (Rand, Chris, Andy). Now SEOmoz have kicked this into over-drive with their heavyweight legal mind, Sarah L. Bird Esq. contributing more >

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Distilled go to Madrid

Posted by Will Critchlow on January 22, 2008 in the Distilled category

So we’ve just got back from our first trip abroad to meet a client. Duncan, Tom and I got up crazy-early on Monday morning to get in a taxi to Gatwick, where we caught a flight to Madrid. In honour more >

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Has everyone who wants a digital camera got one?

Posted by Will Critchlow on January 21, 2008 in the SEO category

After Google released the new Checkout Trends tool (I heard via SEL), I couldn’t resist having a bit of a play. It might not surprise some of you to know that we care about the market for sofas, so the more >

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Online shake-downs: help persuade Google to ban ripoffreport

Posted by Will Critchlow on January 19, 2008 in the Reputation category

Protection rackets used to abound in the offline world. Dodgy blokes coming round to your shop and saying: Pay us £xx and we’ll make sure nothing ‘happens’ to your windows Or you park your car on a back-street and some more >

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Guest post: Damage to reputation is #1 risk to business

Posted by Will Critchlow on January 15, 2008 in the Reputation category

Those of you who have been paying attention might remember a guest post last year from Crispian Cuss of Pittacus – a company specialising in advising companies about threats to their reputations. In their words: Pittacus has a simple proposition: more >

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