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Tweetseek, a Quick N Dirty Free Social Media Monitoring Tool

January 24, 2011, by 1 comment

Bit of a sneeky one this, but the bods at BC have finally fixed one of our online services – tweetseek.co.uk. This gadget can be added to any site and shows tweets based on any keywords you define.

I’ve been using it as a really quick n dirty social media monitoring tool for my clients (yeah I could use tweetdeck but I wont)

Widgets can be placed on any website, just copy and paste the code.

Simples

MR.SEO Featured on SmallBusiness.co.uk as a Social Media Expert

January 20, 2011, by No comments yet

In my day job I’ve been contacted to guest post on a number of 3rd party websites. I like to think I have something to offer so when smallbusiness.co.uk asked me to write something on social media i set to it.

Check this awesome guide to business blogging on their website.

I dont know why they’ve called it a social media tip tho lolz.

Introducing Jim, BC’s New Link Ninja

November 15, 2010, by 5 comments

Today saw Jim join the BC team. Jim is a link-ninja and is sure to expand the capabilities of the the already strong BC team. Jim will be spending the news month or so reviewing each client site in turn and highlighting opportunities and building rock-star links.

Welcome Jim!

BC’s DADI Awards Photos

November 15, 2010, by No comments yet

They’re all going to kill me for this but the official DADI awards photographer has uploaded the photos from the event to his Flickr account.

Check them below (Sharing has been disabled… BOO!) :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwaring/5177163765/in/set-72157625268167701/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwaring/5177210309/in/set-72157625268167701/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwaring/5177814428/in/set-72157625268167701/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwaring/5177282285/in/set-72157625268167701/

Who’s The Dadi – Win Big at the DADI Awards

November 13, 2010, by No comments yet

dadi Whos The Dadi Win Big at the DADI Awards

Congratulations to the BC team who this Friday night achieved two prestigious awards from the DADI Awards (the sponsor messages are still rolling around my head and luckily for me I wasn’t playing the ‘Internet Explorer’ game lol). Although we were narrowly pipped to the post for Agency of the Year by the well deserving Made By Pi, BC did manage to add both the Best PPC and Best Ecommerce awards for our clients National Holidays and Daniel Footwear respectively.

We all had a great time in Saviles, Leeds – the food and entertainment were excellent and despite being sober the whole time i managed to boogie the night away until kicking-out time.

Congratulations again to Fergus, James, Siti, Eleni, Monica, John and Max for a job well done. Next year we’ll get Best Search Engine Optimisation for sure (hey, i’ve only been there a few months lol).

BC Conversion Presentation Slides

November 12, 2010, by No comments yet

Monica and Siti did a great job yesterday of presenting BC’s first official presentation as part of the Leeds Digital Festival event. Not only was the room packed out (despite some scheduling issue which we promise to fix next time) but everyone loved the real-world examples outlined in the slides and the feedback was simply brilliant.

We’ve uploaded the slides from this presentation to Slideshare (below) and encourage you to come forwards with your comments, questions and suggestions.

Google Local Listings Integrating with Organic & Going PPC

October 28, 2010, by No comments yet

Ryan, one of our rockstar SEO consultants has just spent all morning writing a new BC blog post about the imminent changes in how Google displays local listings. In particular, how they’re fully integrating local listings into the organic results (no longer as a separte panel) and introducing a PPC model for the top positions. Its well worth a read and we will be following this up with details on how you can capitalise on this change in the SERPS.

Mark Rushworth Gimped!

October 20, 2010, by 1 comment

A few weeks back the BC team had a day out at a photo shoot. It was all fun and frolicks the end result being we wanted to avoid becoming a faceless SEO agency and add some personality into our online profiles.

If you want to see the resulting page and find out about key team members then take a look at the new BCSEO Profile Pages.

I have never looked so gimpy… and the new gravatars on the blog are WAY TOO CLOSE IN lolz.

Great News for Paid Links Buyers

October 12, 2010, by 8 comments

About 3 months ago I had a re-shuffle on my site where i did a bit of housekeeping. This resulted in my removing lots of links to past clients in an attempt to make the blog more focused on its key topic, SEO.

3 months on most of the backlink reports produced for these sites indicate that my links are still active. If others can confirm that Google is retaining link profiles from sites where links have been removed this could be massive for those SEO’s who buy paid links. Just think about it, you rent a paid link on a new blog post and wait for it to to be indexed, then you let the payment expire and the link is removed… but its still in Googles index as an active sitation.

If this is your thing then give it a whirl and let me know.

Google SERPS Update 7 October 2010

October 7, 2010, by 33 comments

Anyone else noticed todays SERPS change which may be limited to the UK results (unconfirmed) it seems that deep-linking has been devalued, and anchor text too. The trend seems to be more brand focused tho im having difficulty in seeing how some brand sites are ranking for some unbranded terms when the main site doesnt seem to support the keywords.

What makes a branded site?

  • Volume of searches for the brand name?
  • Click through rates to the site?

… if so what about sites where the company name is a keyword? Surely they should rock.

Expect more insight soon as i begin to take apart these changes (unless they revert back in the next few days). Fingers crossed we’re not looking at another Florida update in time or Christmas:(