Author Archives: John Doherty

About John Doherty

is an SEO Consultant in the Distilled New York City office. John's work time is filled with data consumption and strategic awesomeness, while his free time consists of extreme sports, travel, and bad reality TV.

Announcing DistilledU

This week at the Distilledathon in London, our all-company meeting taking place as you read this (if you read it before January 28th, 2012), we have a day we’re calling a “Ship-a-thon”. Inspired by hackathons across the world, we’re aiming more >

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Most Epic Distilled Content of 2011

2011 has been a phenomenal year for the SEO industry. Here at Distilled, we shipped a lot of work, much more than I would have believed possible. Our company is constantly reminded by our executive team (Will, Duncan, Tom, and more >

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3 Adwords Metrics That Make All the Difference [Guest Post]

From John: Today’s guest post comes from Megan Marrs, a blogger and marketing associate at Wordstream. We don’t often talk about PPC here on the Distilled site, but we think it is important to explore all areas of inbound/online marketing. more >

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Beating the Panda – Diagnosing and Rescuing a Client’s Traffic

A few months Distilled was approached by a large website in the UK because they had been hit by Panda and had some link-based penalties in place as well. At first I was not sure that they had been hit, more >

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Guest Post: 8 Tactics for Defending the SERPs when Synergy is not an Option

Today I’m introducing a guest post from Michael King. Mike is a fellow NYC-based SEO who has become a good friend over the past few months. His posts on SEOmoz over the past few months have been extremely popular, and more >

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Guide to Google’s New Tablet Search

Recently in Seattle at Mozcon, Rand showed a slide during his presentation of a new Google search screen that he had recently seen “on a blog”. That evening I was using my iPad instead of my laptop and saw the more >

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Google Loses Twitter Stream, Wins the Search Game (Opinion)

Google disabled their Realtime search over the weekend because their contract with Twitter, dating back to 2009, has expired. Based off of a preliminary study yesterday by The Wizard of Moz, Google can no longer see and index based off of tweets. Some more >

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Google+

Today Google announced Google+, their latest attempt at a social network, in a TechCrunch article. In the days to come there will certainly be articles about why it will fail, why it will succeed, or why it will implode and more >

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Introducing Distilled NYC

Distilled NYC is open for business! Allow me to take you on a trip around the office and introduce you to the full team. Distilled NYC is currently based in Techspace NYC Union Square. Here are a few photos for your more >

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Distilled in NYC – A Win for SEO (Join Us!)

Hello everyone! My name is John Doherty, and this is my first Distilled blog post. I am excited and privileged to take this opportunity to officially announce that I will be joining Distilled and Tom Critchlow in New York City more >

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