Today we received some great news, Blueclaw have once again been shortlisted as finalists in the prestigious DADI Awards. Now unfortunately I cannot claim to have been involved in any of this as I’ve not been working there for very long but it’s always nice to see the team doing well.
So far we’ve been nominated for the following categories:
Best PPC
Best Ecommerce
Unfortunately we missed out on being entered into the DADI Awards Organic SEO category despite submitting what I believe was a really great case study (with SERPS that are better now than when originally submitted), but since we won this last year we are prepared to give someone else a chance.
Great Work Guys!
If you want to see more of the DADI Awards shotlist then you can see it here.
Tim of SEOWizz fame and resident guru at Branded 3 has recently posted an article which he debunks popular link building myths.
One key point he argues is that Google is attributing the anchor text on the first pass of the bot and that changing anchor text once its been ‘indexed’ has no effect.
This is massive as one of the first things I (used to) do for every client was to check the backlink profile and re-purpose any links that were not anchor text based.
It seems the key is to get the link right the first time.
I need to see how this effects new links pushed into old content as that could be a huge hurdle for link aquisition.
Just reading a thread on the design forum qbn.com about a guy whos just had someone send in a CV and samples of work for a job – with the images being lifted from the guys own KROP portfolio.
When attempting to justify whats happened BuddaHat added:
He was just doing some R&D in preparation for his application…
As I’m now SEO Manager at Blueclaw I thought it only right that I help promote the work of the team starting with an SEO Guide created by Monica our Senior SEO consultant. This guide is aimed at people who are new to SEO and contains practical guides and information on the SEO process and how to impliment key elements of success.
This is refreshing as many of the guides and e-books out there simply spout the same old un-practical and out-of-date rubbish that does no one any good.
The SEO Guide is available as a free PDF download and will soon be published as an active document which will form the basis of a knowledge-share like SEO Bible.
I’ve been looking through the vast raft of automated and semi automated SEO tools out there and one that is free and appears to work is a free online directory submission service called Easy Submits.
Basically you register your site, fill in the standard directory prerequisites and then click through each directory title in their list of over 2000. The site then pulls in the form and captcha and you click submit.
Don’t CTRL click a bank of links open as it messes up the captcha reference – its best to do them one by one.
Oh and you can filter by captureless directories if you want to speed through some basic directory submissions.
Theres some really great features like having the ability to check each directory for acceptance, reporting errors and basic PR data etc for each directory listing.
Another new tool launched a few days ago is a Google Local Citation Finder which aims to help you track down the link sources and references that incluence Google Local listings.
Basically you find a target keyword where alocal listing is shown, fill in the form and press submit, the app then emails you back once a report has been done and bobs your bothers brother, you have a list of credible sources that can influence your local listing.
If you’re heavily into SEO and link building then you should be into content aggregation and Guest Posting is a great way of not only getting your content out there but also a way of building your brand (and the brand of your clients). If you don’t know what guest posting is then its simply the act of having an article posted on a 3rd party website.
There are pleanty of guides to how to effectively guest post out there and key to this is tailoring what you have to say around what the target blogs community wants to read so I’d even go so far as to say you’d be better of writing completely unique content for this purpose.
Theres a new resource in town created (I think) by the world famous Anne Smarty and this is myblogguest.com. It’s basically a forum of publishers and SEO’s/writers who are looking for their opposite party within the guest post relationship.
The main reason for this post is to encourage UK bloggers and SEO’s to get involved as at the moment its mainly USA focused and the good ol’ UK needs to represent!
If you want a guest post from me then look me up on there.
From the creators of jailbreak comes flash for the iPhone.
Steve Jobs said it couldn’t be done but some crayzee guy has managed to port flash to the iPhone 4/3gs/3g so you can now play farmville in all its glory.
Its very buggy but worth it if you’re tired of seeing those blue lego bricks everywhere.
I’ve just been taken to Costco in Leeds and OH MY GOD I can’t wait to go back on my own.
It costs something like £35 for a card but when you consider that a 1l bottle of Jack Daniels is usually £30 in the regular supermarkets and only £20 in Costco, I think I’ll make that money back in no time. Not only is the booze cheap but theyve got fresh food, electronics, designer clothes and furniture (of varying quality). It was totally not what I had expected from watching American TV… It was better!
I'm now SEO Manager at the award winning Leeds based SEO Services company, Blueclaw. If you would like to hire my team for your SEO project or would simply like an over the table discussion about how your businesses SEO can be improved please email mark@blueclaw.co.uk with your questions, expectations and project details.
