Next speaker was Tom Critchlow, a VP at Distilled and the leader of the new Distilled office in New York (the #bigdistillednews). Tom is currently in-house with SEOmoz, helping them increase their visibility on the web by working with linkbuilding tactics and their on-site optimization possibilities. Tom’s talk was great because of SEOmoz’s penchant towards […]
Up next was Russ Jones of Virante. Russ talked about “Where to get the old ‘linkbait on Digg’ effect”. Russ has been around since Digg was born, and has seen the demise of Digg as a link opportunity. The main issues with Digg 1) Home page links are 301d to an internal page, then to […]
Up next was a speaker previously unknown to me, Jane Copland. Jane worked for SEOmoz for a few years, and is now back in the UK working for Ayima. Her talk was entitled “Getting actions from competitor research”. She talked About some new ways of doing competitor research, and then how to build a linkbuilding […]
Wil Reynolds was the first speaker. Wil is the founder of SEER Interactive, a Philadelphia-based SEO consultancy. Though he was tired from his flight across the pond the previous day, he gave an impassioned talk entitled “Pitfalls, mistakes, and traps for the unwary”. One of the things I respect about Wil is his immense openness […]
The Distilled Linkbuilding Conference, hashtagged #linklove, took place on Friday, March 18th at the Congress Centre in London, UK. I was fortunate enough to attend, and was one of very few Americans present (I assumme all you Americans are going to the New Orleans Linkbuilding Seminar next week, right? The conference began with a bang […]
Social media as a ranking signal has been a hot topic of conversation in SEO circles for the past few months. Talk has occurred for years, yet both Google and Bing have recently confirmed independently that they use Twitter and other social media channels as ranking factors. We are also seeing many more instances of […]