Outranking Google
7/25/2012 I wouldn’t say Google is the “enemy”, but all too often they’re far being from a friend. Understanding Google and understanding yourself will set you up to avoid catastrophe.
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Blog Posts
Building Awesome Relationships For Links, Likes, and Love
3/29/2012 Link building isn't really link building. It's relationship building. Links are just the proof of the relationship, as are the tweets, likes, sales… relationship building is link building. Your social graph is your linkerati.
What SEOs Must Learn from Adwords Folks
10/14/2011 AdWords folks. They're the traders of the online marketing world. They spend their time analyzing scoreboards, making little improvements and brainstorming their next ideas. They split-test their ideas, scale the best and ditch the best. In a world where scarce resources force them to make choices over budget, positioning and copy, they're having to think totally differently to SEOs...
Why Your Linkbait Fails and How to Fix It
9/1/2011 Howdy Mozzers, I've been spending a couple of weeks this summer in the Distilled office looking at the way they do linkbait in order to write up a guide on it. Whilst researching and reading around what people had posted before, it became clear there were a handful of problems which kept cropping up why people were failing at linkbait. In this post, I hope to address some of the...
Highly Effective Content for Your Bottom Line
6/28/2011 Tom shared some inspirational content ideas recently, as well as a post on CopyBlogger all discussing ideas to generate content. But the trouble with creativity and tizzed-up text is it can distract from the main point of SEO; the business and your profit.
Search & Social Media in the Web Marketing Recipe
12/6/2010 If you think of web marketing as a recipe, and search and social media as two of many different ingredients performing different roles, you can understand why this one-line infuriated the SEO community so last month.
The Definitive Guide to Awesome Web Content
10/21/2010 What is it we SEOs do? Most of our answers probably boil down to this; we help webpages rank higher at search engines by improving each of the three cornerstones of SEO. The first aspect; technical problems - like indexable content, meta robots tags and URL structures - has been cracked by SEOmoz’s awesome web app. Suddenly we can get a complete dashboard of errors to go and sort - easy.
Growing Up in the SEO Ninjahood
7/22/2010 The word “ninja” gets uttered a lot here in the Distilled office. As an outsider, I don’t know - perhaps they all have fly-by-night jobs where they go out, chasing baddies and saving the world... or it simply means being kick-ass awesome at doing SEO. Whatever, peaking in the “ninjahood” seems the ultimate goal, I mean, look ...