Monthly Archives: June 2009

SEO for Tumblr Blogs

Posted by Rob Ousbey on June 26, 2009 in the SEO category

Tumblr is a superb platform for publishing a blog. However, it’s had something of a reputation for encouraging content to be very poorly optimised; as a result, Tumblr blogs don’t tend to receive as much organic search traffic as they more >

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Where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing: NESTA, Courvoisier and badabing

Posted by Will Critchlow on June 26, 2009 in the Distilled category

We have an internal all-hands weekly email here at Distilled summarising what each department has been up to. It was while writing up a bit about what had happened on a marketing / networking front that I realised the variety more >

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An Introduction to Online Surveys and Feedback for your website

Posted by Lucy Langdon on June 16, 2009 in the Conversion Rate Optimisation category

Customer feedback is really important in the improvement of your website. Conversion Rate Experts wisely advise that, before you test with the “Let’s-Throw-Stuff-At-The-Wall-And-See-What-Sticks Approach“, you take some time to find out what needs to be tested. One of the ways more >

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Google Analytics now reports untagged adwords traffic as direct traffic

Posted by Richard Cotton on June 12, 2009 in the PPC category

We recently had a spike in traffic for one of our clients that we couldn’t explain. The spike appeared in organic traffic when we excluded their main keyword but we couldn’t find out what the source of this traffic was. more >

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A letter to my 2007 self: assorted advice

Posted by Will Critchlow on June 10, 2009 in the Distilled, Geo Location, PPC, SEO category

Rand recently wrote his 2007 self a letter and asked me and a bunch of other people to do the same. I was struck, reading Rand’s letter, by the degree to which his advice to himself is useful and actionable more >

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Are Yahoo giving away PPC ads for free?

Posted by Richard Cotton on June 9, 2009 in the PPC category

We recently noticed that when searching on Yahoo for Distilled a sponsored advert was appearing. The strange thing about this is that we do not run any PPC adverts on Yahoo. We do run some PPC adverts on Google but more >

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A cabinet reshuffle of our own.

Posted by Duncan Morris on June 8, 2009 in the Reputation Monitor category

This post has turned into a bit of a lengthy post, but should give you some insight into some changes going on at Distilled. Over the last 4 years Will and I have had the challenge and the pleasure of more >

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Building Directory Links: The 90′s SEO Technique That Still Works

Posted by molly on June 1, 2009 in the SEO category

If you’ve been reading up on the latest fashion, you’ll know that the 90′s are back. I’m sure you’ve seen more than a few people sporting Wayfarers or liberal amounts of neon lately. Keep your fingers crossed for the return more >

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