Brighton SEO – What Can Social Learn from Mad Men? Roger Warner @RogerWarner #BrightonSEO

Posted by Lyndsey in Brighton SEO, Presentations on September 9th, 2011 0 Comments

Roger Warner is the founder of Content and Motion, an online communications agency based in Lewes, East Sussex. Apparently he wears blue blazers on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays – Today being Friday I am excited about this blazer and I’m hoping for the whole hog. Blue blazer, hair slicked back, pretty girl on his arm, doing Don Draper proud. Let’s see what he has to say about what social can learn from Mad Men…

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Links – SEO Value vs Client Expectations vs Cost – Neil Walker (@TheUKSEO) #brightonseo

Posted by Lyndsey in Brighton SEO, Presentations on September 9th, 2011 0 Comments

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BrightonSEO an excellent opportunity to gather SEO talent and allow experts to converse one anothers experiences, almost a nirvana for SEOness

The two were just made to be together and that is why today Neil Walker is Discussing SEO value vs Client expecation vs Cost.

Founding Just Search Ltd in 2003 to which he was the first technical person in the company of 4, which is know a Global Online Marketing company. By 2004 Just Search Ltd had succesfully acheived top three status for the Search terms of SEO, Search Engine Optimisation, Internet Marketing among other phrases.

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Choosing and Implementing Friendly URLs for Ecommerce – Erika Ungar (@erikau) #brightonseo

Posted by Alan in Brighton SEO, Presentations on September 9th, 2011 0 Comments

Erika Ungar is an SEO & Usability Specialist at Boux Avenue, a new multi-channel lingerie brand from Dragons’ Den’s Theo Paphitis. She’s been working in Search since 2008.

In this presentation, Erika shares her experiences of working with web developers to create user-friendly URLs for a dynamic eCommerce platform.

Dr Social Love: Or how I learned to Stop worrying about Google Algorithms and Love the People – James Carson (@mrjamescarson) #brightonseo

Posted by Alan in Brighton SEO, Presentations on September 9th, 2011 1 Comment

James Carson is Head of Search Marketing at Bauer Media, and his presentation was an overview of significant developments in social media marketing, how social activity relates to search strategies and how to “socially charge” marketing content to ensure that it is shared and linked to.

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Dr Social Love: Or How I Learned to Stop… by mrjamescarson

Photo used courtesy of @tnarik on Flickr

Attracting Links – Dave Peiris (@sharkseo) #brightonseo

Posted by Alan in Brighton SEO, Presentations on September 9th, 2011 0 Comments

In this presentation Dave Peiris aka Shark SEO spoke about attracting links by creating useful content.

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He spoke about using webaps such as hackerbuddy, and how they can be useful as part of your SEO strategy. Two of the best reasons that Dave gave for using them were that they can give strong links and the fact that they are great for branding. The others can be seen in the video. Read on

John Mcelborough – Building a Private Blog Network @johnmcelborough #brightonseo

Posted by Alan in Brighton SEO, Presentations on September 9th, 2011 3 Comments

John Mcelborough runs his own consultancy business, IOptimal, working as an SEO consultant and affiliate marketer, priding himself on this “hands-on” approach. He also runs a number of his own web projects and blogs from his own website.

John talked about Blog Networks and how effective they are as an SEO Strategy. He discussed the practical and technical difficulties of creating a blog network for linkbuilding purposes, a network of sites used to link back to other sites in order to get more links. Read on

Google’s Panda – A Case Study – Jonny Stewart ( @jonaths ) #brightonseo

Posted by Alan in Brighton SEO, Presentations on September 9th, 2011 3 Comments

Jonny Stewart is Head of Search & Social Media at The Review Centre, and has been working in search for over seven years. He spoke first at BrightonSEO, with a presentation all about the Google Panda update, something which his followers on twitter will know is close to his heart.

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Measuring Social Media with Google Analytics

Posted by Graeme in Analytics, Social Media on September 8th, 2011 1 Comment

Originally produced and presented by Graeme Benstead-Hume and SiteVisibility for the Brighton Digital Marketing Festival event September 2011. Measuring social media with Google Analytics covers a number of ways to segment your Google Analytics data to better measure the success of your social media campaigns.

Handouts for this presentation are available below or as a download here: Measuring Social Media with Google Analytics Handout.

Creating Campaign Tracking Code

Visit http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55578 or alternatively search for ‘URL builder’ in Google.

Website URL – Enter the URL you will be linking to from your social media activity.

Campaign Source – Enter the name of the social channel / site you are linking from, e.g. twitter.com

Campaign Medium – Will group your campaign sources together in your reports so enter Social or Social Media.

Campaign Name – Choose a more specific identifier for your campaign, e.g. twitter outreach.

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Click on Generate URL and copy and paste the resulting text instead of your usual URL.

You can find your campaign report in Google Analytics under ‘Traffic Sources’ and ‘Campaigns’

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This even works when the URL with tracking code is minified.

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Google+ Influencing Search Results? Correlation Study – Podcast Episode #131

Posted by Kelvin in Internet Marketing Podcast on September 8th, 2011 1 Comment

In this episode of the podcast Andy and Kelvin are revisiting Google +. Kelvin explains how he believes that Google + may already be providing as good ranking data as Twitter and Facebook.

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See Kelvin Speak at A4UExpo in London, 18th – 19th October 2011

Posted by Kelvin in Presentations on September 7th, 2011 1 Comment

I’m very chuffed to be speaking at the upcoming a4uexpo in London on the 18th – 19th October 2011, as this event is aimed at the affiliate industry and has some of the best speakers in search. By some Jedi mind trick I’ve managed to convince them to let me to speak on two sessions.

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I’m opening the first day with a session titled The Science of Influence & Engagement and here’s the session synopsis: the business of affiliate marketing would be a bunch easier if we better understood how people think. The good news is scientists have been studying influence and engagement for decades.

This session will cover how the science of psychology, behavioural economics and game theory can help us market our products and services with more success. If you need to influence or persuade somebody to do something then this is the session for you.

I’m going to be talking about tricks our minds plays on us AKA ‘cognitive biases’ and what marketers can do to take advantage of this. I was involved in helping select the speakers for this session and I’m hugely chuffed to be sharing the stage with two of the brightest minds in the industry, Will Critchlow from Distilled and Stephen Pavlovich from Conversion Factory.

The second panel is Internet Sleuthing: Gathering the Intelligence Required to Beat the Competition with Sam Crocker from OMD and David Sottimano from Distilled. What will we be talking about? Knowing your competitors’ plans and their areas of past success are essential insights for any brand, affiliate, or webmaster. Identifying how to compete in the SERPs for a given product or vertical is essential and while no two are identical, having the right tools can help ensure success irrespective of the competitive landscape.

As such, we will provide the industrial grade tools and techniques required for finding what will work in your particular niche. This panel is dedicated to exploring the latest and greatest in techniques for finding out valuable competitor insights and learning the things that your competitors don’t want you to know. The final step will be to take webmasters through how to ensure their data is well protected and how to throw competitors off the scent.

I’m really looking forward to this one. Sam and David always bring their A-game to presentations and I’m going to do my best to knock it out of the park.

If these sessions, plus two days of talks on all areas of digital marketing, sounds up your street you can get your hands on tickets here. Plus, as a special treat to you a 10% discount can be used to make an already great value ticket a bargain. The code is SPEAK10%

Hope to see you there.