Being at an SMX or SES sometimes just isn’t enough. A few people really grabbed my attention at the last couple of conferences, and not because they were speaking… None of the encounters I am thinking about were speaker related.

The best way to get noticed is to be an interesting conversationalist.

It really all started with Continue reading...

Which company has bought a website with 813,000 backlinks and then more or less switched it off? Continue reading...

At some point last year I found myself in Edinburgh, doing an SEO presentation with those guys trying to buy that upstart, Yahoo. That’s where I met David Bain, who said that he had this training course planned and he wondered if I would do an interview with him, which I duly did.

He said he’d Continue reading...

Just overheard Kevin Ryan and Marilyn talking about attendance at SES London. They’ve got 2,000 people coming over the three days. Te Business Design Center is a strange layout, so it’s not always easy to see how many people are around, but the session I just went to was full. Mind you… the panel included Continue reading...

Here's a link building case study... redefining the phrase "satellite links" :) Continue reading...

Some months back I reviewed FaceBook’s sponsored listings  and found the Click through rate to be very poor. Since then I have tried with a much larger brand and had an even more disastrous CTR. Today I think I found out at least one reason why.

I was going through Facebook and was clicking around. Just as I clicked Continue reading...

Blimey. Just had a call from Mel, who’s just had a text from Steve Ballmer. Microsoft are going to  buy Yahoo at $31 a share!

 This representings total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion.

 But the more important thing for all of us is that there will be two players, not three.

So I heard the news Continue reading...