June 21, 2023
Social Media Platform Usage by Age – The Numbers
Almost 1 in 5 Brits has made a purchase based on a product being endorsed…
August 3, 2022
Search or Social: Which is More Important in Driving Sales?
As an SEO, I'm clearly already very much bought into the role of search in…
September 22, 2020
The Most Valuable Skills in the SEO Space
I don't believe anyone needs a specific qualification to be able to learn SEO and…
October 24, 2019
Stress, Workload and Becoming More Productive
Part of my motivation for becoming self employed was having more control over how I…
April 30, 2019
SEO Staff Turnover and What Can Be Done About It
Staff turnover in the SEO industry is high. There is, certainly based on my own…
September 3, 2018
So, I Hired my Mum.
We often joke, in the SEO industry, about how difficult it can be to explain…
August 23, 2018
SEO Careers: Freelancing Vs Agency (My Experience)
I love freelancing. Nope, I don't work in my PJs in front of Jeremy Kyle and I…
June 21, 2018
Measuring Your Organic Click Through Rate
I gave a talk this evening on tactics and techniques to improve organic click through…
June 7, 2018
Outreach in 2018 – Survey Findings
I've recently been preparing a talk for Verve's amazing outREACH Conference. As a part of…
February 17, 2018
Image Link Building – A Guide
I love image link building as a tactic for acquiring great quality natural inbound links.…
January 4, 2018
How NOT to Approach Bloggers
W orking with bloggers and social influencers is a big part of both SEO and…
February 28, 2016
Travel Companies Doing Awesome Content Marketing
I talk a lot about how much I love working on content and SEO for travel…
February 21, 2016
B2B Content Marketing Examples I Love
Content marketing is often talked about online in the context of big consumer brands like…
September 18, 2014
Content Marketing from 1904 – The Jell-o Way
"Content marketing," is being talked about in what seems like every corner of the planet…
April 27, 2014
NUF Testing to Narrow Down a Long List of Ideas
It was an absolute privilege to speak at Brighton SEO last week. It's always such…
March 25, 2014
635 Brainwriting For Content Marketing Ideas Generation
Ideas generation. That's one of the toughest challenges we face in content marketing. If you…
September 15, 2013
Low Cost Link Building with Data – My Brighton SEO 2013 Slides
Last week, I had the good fortune to speak at Brighton SEO and to attend…
September 2, 2013
I Asked 1,000 Americans to Name a British City Other than London
I asked 1000 Americans to name a British City OTHER than London. That's not the…
August 8, 2013
21 Questions to Ask SEO Prospects (Before you Even Think About Selling them Anything)
Stop asking... "What are your keywords?" Whenever I hear SEOs or sales people ask prospective…