Monthly Archives: February 2008

The Problem With ‘Ranking’ in Google

Posted by Tom Critchlow on February 20, 2008 in the Geo Location, SEO category

“Why isn’t my site ranking for it’s brand name in Google?” While the answer may be complicated I suspect the vast majority of people (many SEOs included!) would claim the question is fairly straightforward. Let me explain why this question more >

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Where art and science meet…. geeky arts students of the world unite!

Posted by Lucy Langdon on February 20, 2008 in the Distilled category

I’ve had a few conversations recently on the theme of ‘where art and science meet’. One of these areas, newly opened to my English graduate eyes, is Search Engine Optimisation. I was hired by Distilled as, in part, a ‘creative more >

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Sunday Times covers Online Reputation (mentions Distilled)

Posted by Will Critchlow on February 17, 2008 in the Reputation category

The Sunday Times this week has an interesting story about online reputation management, entitled Smeared on the internet? Then call in the cleaners. It covers some interesting ground including Kate Moss’ online reputation (looks like someone has been at work more >

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Mobile search: Why Google could be the next Google

Posted by Will Critchlow on February 13, 2008 in the Mobile category

Ciaran just wrote about how everyone is buying Yahoo! including Nokia, the mobile handset manufacturer (something Rebecca talked about as well). We have spent time here speculating about the exact same things. The combination of this train of thought and more >

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Interview with David Mihm

Posted by Will Critchlow on February 13, 2008 in the Interviews category

It’s that time again – another interview in our series. This time the man on the other side of the tape recorder (ok, email) is David Mihm, the web designer in Portland, Oregon (or at least he will be when more >

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Who Wants My 1000th Stumble?

Posted by Tom Critchlow on February 11, 2008 in the SEO category

I’ve been a fan of Stumble Upon for quite some time and really like the interface and it’s probably the only social media site which I actually browse for pleasure as well as work (although Reddit has been providing some more >

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Google’s iPhone search not doing any geo-targeting?

Posted by Will Critchlow on February 7, 2008 in the Mobile category

While digging around a little bit into the various mobile versions of Google (and other large sites), I found their iPhone version. They also have a version at google.co.uk. Now, I don’t have an iPhone but I have changed my more >

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7 days as an SEO

Posted by Lucy Langdon on February 4, 2008 in the SEO category

Hello all. Some of you keen beans may have noticed a new addition to the Distilled team. My name’s Lucy and I’m as new to SEO as my 3 day old nephew is new to the world. Well, actually, that’s more >

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Interview With Lyndon Antcliff AKA ‘Lyndoman’

Posted by Tom Critchlow on February 4, 2008 in the Interviews category

Introducing, ladies, gentlemen and digg-citizens our next interview with Lyndon Antcliff. I’m sure Lyndon (aka Lyndoman on most social media sites) needs very little introduction but here’s the background anyway. I first stumbled upon (hahaha ha.. ha… ahem) Lyndon’s blog more >

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Microsoft bids 3 Facebooks for Yahoo!

Posted by Will Critchlow on February 1, 2008 in the SEO category

I’m not going to go into depth on the news that Microsoft has bid $44.6 billion as it will be covered (to death) in a million and one places (and I don’t really have time to write any kind of more >

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