This is a plea to all those who would consider themselves Social Media Optimisers, Linkbaiters and Copywriters and perhaps maybe even those who consider themselves SEOs.
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What do I and the Top Diggers and Stumblers have in common?
May 25, 2007 — Tim NashIf you are serious about social networking (and not just studying it like me!) Then you need friends and do you know what all 100 Top Stumblers and 98/100 Top Diggers have in common?
That’s right they all use an avatar picture…
An avatar image is a strong visual brand and identity that people quickly associate with a person many bloggers know who Darren Rowse is, simply by the picture he uses as his avatar, Lyndon from SEO Cornwall is another good example with his distinctive red background. The power of brand and visual identities is simple people notice you. Recently I had a conversation with MegT an Australian Blogger (its her avatar shown) We had both started to notice that every where we went we bumped into each other, now we have interests in similar niches but the reason we noticed each other was down to the fact we both use the same avatar in every location and by doing so we both have recognisable profiles and a sphere of trust.
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Less then 2 weeks to go till All About Asking
May 8, 2007 — Tim NashI’m getting a little bit excited, less then 2 weeks to go till myself and David Castle open All about Asking a two day SEO residential course here in the UK in Nottingham.
We have announced details of couple of the workshops
I’m particularly looking forward to semantic markup and search engine optimisation, this is a subject that’s dear to my heart and I have been busy preparing several practical tutorials and bits for people, along with a set of scripts, css and html templates for people to take away. The second workshop which has been announced in detail is getting in the right search engine. This workshop is focusing on getting your site into the various search engines, regional, local mobile etc. Again its really a practical session with everything from XHTML geo targetting tracks to working with CHTML being discussed and played with.
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DIY Reputation management tools – Part1
April 27, 2007 — Tim NashWhether your an individual a company or a marketing/SEO company reputation management will become part of your business and business strategy, knowing what’s being said about you and your clients is not only important but in many business paramount.
Having decided that this is the case your question is how to best to keep and analyse your reputation and brand, you could
- Hire a reputation management company (that would be us right
) - Employ a full time specialist
- Do it or get some one to do it yourself
Are you reputable?
April 10, 2007 — Tim NashTim has written up a short article for Engtech regarding reputation management the article an Introduction to reputation management is well worth a read if you use or are planning on using the web for any thing other then personal stuff, or if you plan to get married!
Tim has previously written a longer series on reputation management for Webdigity forums a few months ago, and has been using the term and discussing personal branding for several years. He might not have been the first to use the term but he was certainly one of the early promoters of something that is steadily heading towards being mainstream.
We grabbed a quick interview with Tim who is normally the only writer on the Venture Skills blog about where he thinks Reputation management is going…
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SEO Forensics Launches
March 19, 2007 — Tim NashThe first of 4 new sites to be launched by Venture Skills in the next few weeks SEO Forensics is our new site for Small to medium size businesses. The site provides Site reviews, and SEO work as well as Audio Consulting & training its aimed to be a one spot shop for all your needs.
If your unsure if you need its services try out a basic or full site review if your not 100% happy then we will refund you, its that simple.
Personally I think the best value deal is to go with the Full review and follow it up with either Audio consultation or Audio training, what’s more the training can be based around your site! and at £150 for the combined review and audio training its great value.
What’s more to launch the site we are giving 2 Site reviews away absolutely free! All you have to do is leave a comment on this thread to be in with a chance of winning, The closing date for the competition is Sunday the 25th of March at midnight with the winners being announced on Monday!
So if you want to be in with a chance of Winning a £100 worth of site review let us know!
And don’t forget to check out
SEO Forensics
Reputation management its just SEO right?
March 17, 2007 — Tim NashI was doing the usual read of the feeds this evening and came across this post from SEOmoz and always a enjoyable read and this post was no exception regarding reputation management.
One of the points raised time and again regarding Reputation management is it ethical and morally correct? and as always you can take 2 views
1) You are manipulating not only your own site but other sites within the SERPs and therefore this is ethically wrong as you are effecting the natural order of Google!
2) urgh aren’t you an SEO company manipulating the search engines what you do?
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Deadly sins of SEO Sites
March 13, 2007 — Tim NashSo you have seen the hundreds of SEO consultancies out there, every man and his dog are now experts in the field of SEO but lets look at their sites and check for the deadly sins. I’m not going to name names but some of the biggest SEO companies fail these really simple steps for well optimised pages. But what are the deadly sins, well read on…
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