Collette Easton

All the Influential Ladies… if you like her, put a ring on it

image This week I have had the pleasure to visit Chicago for the first time. I am very struck by the city – for a big place, it seems to have a very ‘homely’ feel to it.  Perhaps because of 2 amazing women I have been lucky enough to meet. more
Bas van den Beld

Feeling inspired at SES San Francisco

San Fransisco Last week I had the pleasure of spending a week in San Francisco. Now the city alone is reason enough to be there and have a good time, but in this case I was there with a goal: to attend SES San Francisco 2012. As you may know I attend a more
James Chant

Google’s Attempt to Retain Users

Knowledge Base When you look at Google’s feature releases over the past few months it’s interesting to notice their attempt to keep users on the site for longer periods of time. Currently the search engine relies on reading text from relevant web pages and linking to this information through rankings, though they seem more
Matt Roberts

The letter SEO agencies don’t ever want to receive

15 Feb, 2012 SEO 3 Comments
The letter you never want! Head of Search A Popular SEO Agency 3 Curtain Road Shoreditch London EC1 123 Dear Matt, Thank you for your recent presentation. We enjoyed meeting your team and found it very interesting. However, I regret to inform you that we will not be awarding you our business on this occasion. I’ll get straight to the point; one of more
Matt Roberts

Cookie Cutter SEOs, Please Evolve

15 Feb, 2012 SEO 0 Comments
Cookie Cutter For those offering what I call ‘cookie cutter SEO’, please make 2012 the year you evolve. You are hurting our profession and the businesses that are being sold the pipe dream you package and misleadingly label ‘SEO’. And for the businesses that are choosing these cookie cutters, please be careful. We more