Blog Posts
2/22/2008
Due to an unavoidable client meeting I had to miss the first session on the final day of SES London 2008; from speaking to a few people it sounds like I missed some good ones, so here's hoping the rest of the day keeps up the quality. Session 2: Dynamic Websites: Beyond The BasicsIf there's such a think as an all-star team in SEO then the panel here p...
2/19/2008
I'm attending the first day of SES London as an unofficial SEOmoz correspondent. Rather than providing a live-blogging "he said; she said" commentary Rand has asked me to provide overviews & analytic commentary; I'll certainly do my best, but if I end up talking about what I had for my lunch you'll know that Rand got the wrong guy for the job. The day got off to...
7/23/2007
I’m on holiday at the moment (although my wife might argue with that, considering that I have written this blog post) and so I’ve had a lot of time to consider the conversation going on at, and about, Sphinn right now, and especially Rand’s opinion on it.In a post entitled “Sphinn.com is basically just a popularity contest” T...
6/24/2007
Brian Clark's copyblogger blog is always packed full of useful information. And one of his best ever posts was his Five Grammatical Errors That Make You Look Dumb. He lists them as:Your vs. You'reIt's vs. ItsThere vs. TheirAffect vs. Effect...
5/17/2007
Like most people who have featured on YOUmoz, for me blogging is a pleasure. It allows me to play at being a journalist, as well as giving me a platform to talk about a subject that fascinates me, and hopefully even lets me spread some learning.However, for many people journalism is a very serious issue indeed. The reason I say this is that today (May 17th) is the 45th birthday of a man ...
4/13/2007
We’ve now seen how writing for online is different to writing for print, and the importance of choosing the right words to use. Next we’ll see how a good headline or intro can make all the difference to whether your article will be read or not. 1) Headlines on many editorial sites get turned into title tags (the blue bar at the top of your browser...
4/13/2007
Introduction When told that writing for the Web is different to writing for print publications, the understandable reaction of many journalists is that it shouldn’t make any difference; we’re writing for people, not machines, they say. But there is a need to write differently for the Web and the reasons for this are quite simple: the ...
4/11/2007
I'm now less than a week from starting my new job as the SEO Director of a search marketing agency, and it got me thinking about what I've learnt from my time as part of an (initially very small) in-house SEO team. There have been a lot of pros & cons to my time her, and in true blog style, I thought I'd try to summarise these in a snappy little list.Bad Thing...
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