Monthly Archives: May 2010

Facebook Privacy Problems: “I Can’t Quit You”

An Honest and Open Letter to Facebook: You Are on Notice Before I get started, I would like to affirm that these are my own thoughts and are in no way reflective of Distilled or any of its other employees more >

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Killer PPC Account Reviews

The Distilled Crew in London was busy last week at conferences, A4uexpo and SMX Advanced London to be exact. But the US team was doing the same. I presented at Search Exchange in Charlotte, NC last week. I promised the more >

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Trust Your Customers’ Opinion, Not Ours

A friend recently asked me about press releases versus a company blog. He was arguing that the company blog is a more trusted source of information about product releases and other company information. Please note that the idea was spurred more >

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Yandex: the best search engine in the world?

Somehow, Yandex, the well known Russian search engine has launched in the UK with very little fanfare. Please forgive me for getting this post up quickly. There is a lot of research I’d like to do before I make to more >

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SMX Advanced – How Your Social Media Campaign Will Get You in Trouble… Maybe

This is the director’s cut of my SMX presentation on the new UK laws governing social media campaigns. If you weren’t at SMX, the slides are pretty self-explanatory, and if you were there, skip to the middle, where you can more >

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A4uexpo Munich: Data Feed SEO & Advanced Information Architecture

Here’s my second presentation from the awesome A4uexpo Munich. The conference is really good, phenomenally well run and really good fun. Everyone’s a little bit worse for wear on the morning of the second day but here’s my slides from more >

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SMX Advanced: Top 10 Analytics Reports

It’s late, so without too much commentary, here is my slide deck from SMX Advanced 2010 in London [some of the formatting went a bit screwy - I'm trying to fix that]: Top 10 Analytics Reports If you like this more >

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A4uexpo Munich: Universal Search

Following hot on the heels of Sam’s most excellent keyphrase research presentation at SMX London I present here my slides on Universal Search from Munich! The slides are jam packed with links and additional resources so download and research at more >

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SMX Advanced: Keyphrase Research – Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO!

NOTE: The folks over at Mozenda are offering a 25% off voucher code for all pay-as-you-go purchases just use “SMXL25″ on all purchases before May 26th. Whilst the talk of the day (and most of the jokes) yesterday at SMX more >

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How to Create Linkbait if You Don’t Speak the Language

It’s easy to create linkbait. You pick a topic that people will be interested in, research it using google.com or google.co.uk and write it out or design it or whatever. Of course, it only works that easily if you speak more >

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