Howdy! My name’s Dominick and today is my first day as a Digital Marketing Manager at SiteVisibility. It feels a bit surreal to be writing this from SiteVisiblity’s lovely office in Brighton, when I’ve spent some time following the blog posts and listening to the podcasts during my own leisure time, but to be now part of the talented team at SiteVisibility and get the chance to work with some fantastic clients is a great opportunity and one that I shall relish.
Now for some quick background information, in case you’re wondering who is this guy that’s hijacked SiteVisibility’s blog this week. For the last 3 years I’ve actually been doing my best to avoid England’s cold climate and work in some slightly more tropical countries in Asia. Most recently I returned from Taiwan about 4 months ago, where I was working for a multinational software company handling their English Paid Search and affiliate programs as well as consulting on their international SEO strategies.
It can happen to anyone on their birthday right? Terrified of taking the leap from a 160ft-high crane which was set up in Potters field Park, a beautiful little area in the East of London, I started browsing the You Tube channel using keywords such as “bungee funny” or “bungee comedy”. Too frightened to take a look at any of the extreme bungee footage, all I needed was a little bit of comedy. One of the top search results was a short sketch which appeared on the Flemish Comedy Television Show “In De Gloria” many years ago. The sketch shows a father amazed – or rather distressed – by his family’s originality when they organize a bungee jump for his birthday. Although being terrified of heights, the man eventually takes the jump. However, his fears take control of him, making the bungee an embarrassing event for himself as well as his family. “Alles vol. Alles is vol” [It’s completely filled up]; those are the only words the poor man is able to shout out while jumping.
This was literally all that went through my head on that Sunday morning train to London. Read on
In this episode of the podcast, we’re listening to Jonathan Stewart’s presentation from #BrightonSEO. Jonathan is Head of Search & Social Media at The Review Centre, and he’s taking us through the effects of the Google Panda Update on this company’s website. He’s discussing the initial effects, how his team tried to go about addressing the ramifications of the change, and their final conclusions.
In this screencast Kelvin is talking about Link anchor text and the impact it has on search engine rankings. This was previously for premium subscribers and was part of a series covering the VAVA principles so please disregard any mention of other videos.
In this episode of the Podcast, Kelvin is sharing his predictions for the future of Internet Marketing. Although humans are not generally very good at predicting the future, Kelvin is talking through four major ways that the world of Search will likely change over the next little while, and how this is going to effect the industry.
In this screencast, Kelvin is talking about Blekko, a search engine that has actively embraced and engaged with the search marketing community, and can therefore be extremely useful for SEO.
In this episode of the Internet Marketing Podcast, Kelvin and Andy are discussing the latest in tools and hacks for better keyword research, or, what can also be called the power of spreadsheets. There are lots of recent tools which will make keyword research a lot simpler, and other tools which will make using spread sheets and Google Docs a lot more fun.
I’ve been getting more and more involved with social media lately, especially with Twitter, which in turn has led me to conduct a lot of research into free tools to help with my work. After some lengthy sessions of going through blog posts about Twitter tools lists and then using them, I initially realised that there are so many out there. However, despite the fact that there are many tools and blog posts about them, there are very few people who have looked into making a definitive list of completely useful tools (I stress the importance of useful). Therefore, for your reading and Twitter pleasure I have whittled them all down to my top 5 list of free Twitter tools for 2011.
In this episode of the Internet Marketing Podcast, Kelvin and Andy are explaining how you can access the archive of content previously only available to Premium Podcast Subscribers. There are over 150 videos, ranging from ‘How-to’ to ‘Best Practice’ and lots of things in between.
If you’re keen to sign up, please listen to this episode or join the SiteVisibility LinkedIn group for more details.
