If you’ve yet to see Wil present, you’re in for a real treat! In Wil’s 13 years of doing SEO he’s never been surprised by an algorithm update. He will share how thinking a little bit like a spammer will ensure you’ll never be surprised by an algo update again. He will also share strategies on how to get buy-in from clients to ...

Inbound Marketing on a Shoestring Budget. Our head to head sessions are consistently rated highest by our delegates and it’s not surprising. What better way to ensure our speakers bring their ‘A’ game than by pitting them against each other? In the blue corner – Will Critchlow from Distilled; in the red corner – Rand Fishkin fro...

David Mihm is perhaps the best known Local SEO practitioner in our industry, so we were stoked to have him join us. His annual Local Search Ranking Factors study is the canonical resource on the subject. He covers all the latest in Local including recent algorithmic changes, Google+ Local, data correction techniques, analytics t...

The driving force in building Distilled’s Outreach team, Rob Ousbey identifies what characterises a successful outreach campaign. Covering everything from the activity undertaken, assets, costs and the metrics Distilled use to measure success, this session includes a wealth of actionable tips and takeaways to help you improve ...

Covering content strategy and the production process from inception to launch; Distilled’s Phil Nottingham highlights the key creative and technical tactics required to win the internet with video, whether your budget is in the hundreds or hundreds of thousands.

Sometimes the hardest part of an audit is figuring out where to start. Fortunately Annie Cushing is on hand to help. She shares her own 200+ point SEO Audit checklist complete with links to the tools she uses for each task; use this framework to super-charge your auditing process.

Sick of hearing about the guest posting, make infographics, beg for links methodology? Richard is too. He shares how to find your target market, how to approach them and ultimately how to acquire links from the right people with the right content, using the right method. His mantra: optimise everything.

Agency-side or in-house, you have to make your pitch. The winners create proposals that stand out and makes sense. Portent CEO Ian Lurie shows you how he mixes humor, data and description to create and deliver winning proposals.

Distilled’s Head of PR, Lexi Mills discussed how to leverage and integrate PR tactics for SEO benefit. Sharing actionable insights and tips to craft and pitch content on both small and big budgets, she concludes by discussing the gamification of news and the exciting opportunities that it presents for SEOs.

A moderated session discussing the latest news and updates from the world of search.

A moderated session which rounded-up the two days of the conference. Our panel of experts discussed the latest news, updates and predictions from the world of search.

MobileMoxie CEO and Founder Cindy Krum has quite literally written the book when it comes to mobile marketing, and this session is packed with tips. She covers what’s changed in the past 6 months in terms of mobile SEO and shares insights using case studies from companies who’ve taken different approaches to mobile strategy.

A long-time favourite of the Distilled team is SharkSEO, and this year he joined us in London. When you create things that people find interesting or useful you can often get benefits you didn’t expect, including high value links, opportunities for press and a better known brand. Drawing on his experiences of creating searchga.m...

Post iAcquire’s de-indexation Mike King speaks candidly about the road to reinclusion via a comprehensive content and marketing strategy. He shares his experiences, revealing the actual cost of the tactics they employed and the results they achieved.

SEOmoz’s community manager Jen Lopez is responsible for managing one of the biggest SEO communities online. Within this session she shares tactics and advice to utilize social media for customer acquisition and retention

Normally presenting on CRO this time we challenged Stephen to share his experiences of running and marketing his own start-up – selling experience days at Wish.co.uk (which he’s been doing in his ‘spare time’), including why they put PR at the centre of their marketing strategy, how they generated press attention and the impact ...

Founder and CEO of SparkBuy (and now working for Google since their acquisition of SparkBuy) Dan Shapiro believes it’s the CEO’s job to create serendipity. He talks about his own experiences and illustrates how to increase the chance of awesome encounters and critically how to then decide where to invest time in following up.

Justin previously worked for Distilled before moving in-house for Big Fish Games and brings a fresh perspective on the challenges of client-side and agency-side SEO. He shares his in-house experiences including how to work with in-house PR teams to build links and gain coverage; using content as a customer retention strategy an...

We’ve been talking about content strategy in SEO for quite a while now. But content evangelism aside, how do we actually make this actionable? Distilled’s Mark Johnstone talks us through how to make the leap from one-off linkbait to a coherent content strategy.

Distilled’s Mike Pantoliano speaks about bringing conversion rate optimization into the SEO’s day-to-day consciousness. Tips, case studies, and takeaways are provided to assist in-house and agency web marketers working on websites of any size.

Building an Outsourced & Automated Infrastructure from Scratch Paul needs little introduction. He has a long history of designing, then removing himself from systems that continue to provide value for him and his clients long after he has left them. He shares how he deconstructs processes and turns them into scalable and repeata...

Is SEO solely for those with deep pockets? Definitely not. Entrepreneur and Return on Digital CEO Guy Levine shares his experiences of bootstrapped Small Business SEO and includes case studies to illustrate what worked with costs and results.

Aiming to put an end to the speculation about whether social signals have a direct influence on achieving high rankings, Stickyeyes’ Head of Social Media, Heather Healy delves into data sets from competitive sectors to demonstrate where social signals matter and where they don’t.

More commonly known as Oilman, Todd has worked in the SEO industry since 1998 and has seen first-hand how the Google algorithm has changed over the years. Within this session he focuses on Penguin penalties – how to diagnose them, how to clean up your backlink profile and how to get reincluded.

Verve Search CEO and Founder of the famous SEO-Chicks Lisa Myers joined the London lineup. How do you create a truly international targeted SEO strategy? Lisa covers all the crucial areas of international SEO from geo targeting to implementing link development campaigns in other countries. Throughout she shares actual examples ...

Some great ideas are never known. Some great ideas last lifetimes. Link exchanges were dead, then guest posts were dead. Now, infographics are dying. Something is always going and something new is always coming. Learn the principles of utilizing efficiency, scale and value for SEO, link building and content strategies to last ...

Mat shares lessons he learnt the hard way building his startup mixcloud.com. He covers things like; using product development to get famous, how to build a community, how to integrate social tools to turbo-charge your growth and testing what features will generate demand.

One of the most mentioned websites in our conference history is Oyster.com. Co-founder Eytan Seidman closed day one of SearchLove – this one is not to be missed. Eytan believes you either need compelling product/content or you just have to invest in advertising to build a brand. Having elected to build the Oyster.com brand via...

Eating CRO: Real World Case Studies for 20 ~100% Increases in Revenue - Owner of software company Kalzumeus and former engineer Patrick McKenzie made the epic journey from Japan to SearchLove London. Patrick says programming often felt easy while marketing does not — but he loves the challenge. He shares the lessons he’s learned...

Conversion Tracking & Online/Offline Attribution- A long time advocate of integrating online and offline marketing efforts to gain a clearer picture of what’s driving ROI, Lauren, Sr. Director of Online Marketing at Salesforce.com shares her own methodology to improve attribution and conversion tracking and increase ROI.

Watch the sparks fly as experts battle to be the first to find issues and opportunities live on stage.

Watch the sparks fly as experts battle to be the first to find issues and opportunities live on stage.

Getting all our speakers on stage at once to share a single brief snippet of awesomeness is one of the most popular of all our sessions.

Getting all our speakers on stage at once to share a single brief snippet of awesomeness is one of the most popular of all our sessions.