Monthly Archives: December 2008

Christmas Greetings from Distilled

Posted by Duncan Morris on December 19, 2008 in the Reputation Monitor category

Here at Distilled we have just had much merriment writing a poem to go on the Christmas (e) card we have just sent out to our clients. Given the recent upgrade to our reputation monitoring tool we wanted to tie more >

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Google Adwords Editor 7.0 Released (& Bug Found)

Posted by Richard Cotton on December 19, 2008 in the PPC category

I recently installed the new Adwords Editor 7.0 and thought I’d share my thoughts and first experiences of it with you. Although there is plenty to like about the upgrade, there is also one big problem that you need to more >

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Tracking Referrals from Second Page of Google in Google Analytics

Posted by Will Critchlow on December 12, 2008 in the SEO category

I have been experimenting with some advanced features in Google Analytics over the last couple of days. I was inspired by some very clever insights from Search Laboratory (sphinn it here) that we have found very useful. I wanted to more >

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SEO Agency For Sale? A story of what happens as you grow

Posted by Will Critchlow on December 12, 2008 in the Distilled category

I haven’t written much recently about the inner workings of Distilled as a company, but it’s obviously something I spend a lot of time thinking about. I love reading others’ posts on similar subjects though, so, in tribute to one more >

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The last talk of Courvoisier on our blog (for a bit at least)

Posted by Will Critchlow on December 11, 2008 in the Reputation Monitor category

This video that included a (brief) interview I did at the Courvoisier Future 500 party last week intrigued me because it mentioned that Courvoisier spent over £1m in the first year on this whole social / online / offline / more >

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Google’s ploy to boost search traffic & Interflora sue M&S for brand bidding

Posted by Richard Cotton on December 5, 2008 in the PPC category

There have been a couple of interesting developments in paid search in the last week. The first was that Google are planning to run their own ads linking to Google search results for a variety of high value keywords such more >

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The Twitter500 – The Observer’s Generation Next On Twitter

Posted by Tom Critchlow on December 1, 2008 in the Distilled category

As those loyal readers will know yesterday saw the Observer print a supplement entitled Generation Next which profiled 500 of the up and coming talents in the UK across a range of disciplines (and yes, I was in it, which more >

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Combining search and display advertising

Posted by Will Critchlow on December 1, 2008 in the PPC category

We have been working recently with some of our long-term clients to expand their online advertising from PPC into PPC + online display. For some reason, it seems to be something that quite a lot of prospects have been more more >

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