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July has been another busy month at SEOptimise – and seeing that we are now writing around the web, I thought it would be a time to share these posts with SEOptimise readers and recap on the top posts we’ve written here on the blog. Plus I have been announced as a speaker at a4uexpo [...]

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Time flies by. It’s more than two years by now that I write the highly popular “30+” list blog posts to get links and traffic for SEOptimise. I’ve often tried to abandon them, to write tutorials or other types of postings but list posts with around 30 items still rule. They get the most shares on [...]

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This week you may have noticed we have started recruiting for an SEO executive – rather than just writing up a standard we are recruiting post, I thought I’d share the process of how to advertise for jobs online. This is quite worryingly from Oxford – image credit Flickr As a disclaimer, I have nothing [...]

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Last Friday was the SEOptimise summer party, being such a sunny day we made the most of it by going punting (unfortunately no-one fell in!), followed by a beer or three in Oxford. We thought we’d share some of the photos with our readers: There’s more pictures on Flickr and Facebook too. © SEOptimise – [...]

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We all love case studies. Who is we? We in the SEO industry, we in social media and online marketing, we business people. Case studies show on real life examples, real websites, projects and campaigns that something works.
Good case studies are more than proof though. They also show you how to [...]

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We are currently looking to recruit an SEO executive to join our great team in Oxford!

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“We are currently looking to recruit for a full-time position in our natural search team. Candidates with a minimum of 1-2 years experience in a search engine marketing role are preferred, with a competitive salary offered based on [...]

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Since 2006 I’ve written-up a review of the SEOptimise blog in terms of stats and analytics. As it’s an interesting time to look back on how the site has progressed, I’ve continued this by listing some similar stats for comparison during the last 12 months:
Top 10 SEOptimise posts of 2009

10 LinkedIn Tips to Optimise your [...]

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Today we have launched a free white paper, Business Guide to Blogging – this looks at how businesses can promote themselves using blogging, funnily enough. All you need to do is click here to download the guide in PDF format.
Here’s my introduction to the guide:
“The SEOptimise blog began as a way of marketing our search [...]

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Very quick post, but Investp are now running the second year of their online marketers of the year poll.
I was quite surprised, but very honored to be nominated amongst some great guys – including fellow SEOptimise blogger Tadeusz Szewczyk. Last years vote was very popular and I’d encourage that SEOptimise readers take part in [...]

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Very quick post, but on Sunday evening I was on LBC Radio talking to James Max and answering caller questions about search engine marketing.
Here’s a clip from the show:

Direct YouTube link: Kevin Gibbons (SEOptimise) – Online Marketing Interview on LBC Radio.
I’m also at a4uexpo in London today, so if you’re around let me know!
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Online Marketing Interview & Q&A on LBC Radio with James Max

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This morning I had a great opportunity to speak live on BBC Oxford radio to Louisa Hannan about blogging.
It takes 2-3 mins to get into talking about blogging and understandably during the interview there were a few points I researched but didn’t talk about. So I’ve listed below some of the key messages which I [...]

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In case you haven’t signed up for our monthly newsletter yet, our first ever one has just been sent out for August.
You can view it online and sign-up here:

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Today the official Feedburner subscribers count says that the SEOptimise blog has reached 5001 subscribers. In spite of the recent addition of Friendfeed subscribers to this statistic it’s still an impressive number.
When I joined SEOptimise as a blog writer roughly 14 months ago the blog had around 1000 subscribers. Even without the FriendFeed subscribers we [...]

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We are delighted to launch our new monthly SEOptimise newsletter. We aim to pack this full of all the latest search engine marketing articles, tip and tricks, company news and much more!
To sign-up just enter your details below (please click through if reading via RSS/email):

We’ve even got a sneak preview for those who want [...]

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SEOptimise will be at the Online Marketing Show this week at Olympia in London, so make sure you come and visit our stand.
The exhibition is hosted on Tuesday 30th June to Wednesday 1st July and promises to be one of the UK’s top online marketing events. Plus you can still buy entrance passes at the [...]

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Thanks to everyone who took part in last week’s is social media future proof online poll, we received a great response and the results are now in!
We have published all results below, along with any comments and our own conclusions for each question. If you are reading this in an RSS reader or email please [...]

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At lunchtime today we took part in the Oxford Science Park summer event. We played giant beach volleyball, winning our only game, and bungee darts where we were useless and didn’t score a single point between us!
Unfortunately we have photographic evidence too!
Bungee Darts - Richard and Stuart

Kevin and Richard - Bungee Darts

Giant [...]

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For a few months now my work consists mainly of business blogging. I do less and less conventional client SEO work like keyword research or link building. This is quite a change as I’ve been a full time search engine optimizer and SEO consultant for several years in a row. Thus I still get SEO [...]

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While checking referrer stats yesterday I found the question “how to find a great seo company” which indeed is an obvious one and nevertheless a good one. I won’t recommend you a single SEO company in spite of writing for one.
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We’ve managed to venture out of the office this week to exhibit at Internet World in Earls Court, please come along and visit us at stand E3090, just next to the Keynote Theatre and Google University.

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SEOptimise is running a free seminar covering search engine optimisation and pay per click advertising, it is open to everyone, although registration is required. The seminar will take place in the Saddler Building, just down the road from our offices on The Oxford Science Park, at 9am on Thursday 5th March. As I’m sure you [...]

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You may have noticed during the last few days the SEOptimise website has been changing, the new design is based on the previous version but improvements have been made to the layout and formatting of the site:

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With SES London less than a month away, I thought I’d write a quick post about why this is one of the search conferences you should definitely consider attending this year.

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1) Top Search Event in UK/Europe - Outside of the US, SES is arguably the leading search marketing conference in the UK [...]

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Following a very positive year, we’re delighted that SEOptimise have been nominated for 2 Semmy Awards.
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Getting, convincing, keeping and dealing with clients is an art for itself. Whether you’re a freelancer or part of a company, whether you’re a SEO, web designer, programmer or writer you will encounter the same issues again and again. You might argue that everybody is different and no client matches another one. This is true. [...]