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InfluenceFinder – The Next Generation of Link Building
So after an extraordinary (and long) journey we soft launch InfluenceFinder at SMX tomorrow. The beta users were reporting extraordinary gains in productivity – Mydeco said 8 x productivity gains in link building and we felt it was reliable enough … Continue reading
Posted in InfluenceFinder, Majestic, SEO, SEOMoz, SMX
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Search Tools Market – Scoping Exercise
I mentioned in a previous post we asked an MBA student at the London Business School scope out market sizes in the SEO and search tools market. Sanjeev Sharma did an excellent job for us and I’ve decided to publish … Continue reading
Posted in Google, InfluenceFinder, SEO, Search
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Working with MBA students to help with market planning
We have recently started working with two excellent MBA students from the London Business School, Sanjeev Sharma and Yervand Sarkisyan. We asked the guys to help us out with several market scoping projects (lots of TAM and SAM shaping) in … Continue reading
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Introducing Linkdex Labs
Linkdex Labs – Musing on blog detection, SEO We hired our first two analysts last week – a couple of very very smart guys – Toby and Neil. There job will be two fold – improve on the accuracy of … Continue reading
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Why the conversation is not just about links – far from it in fact
I was recently, well this week, asked to compare the SEOMoz Linkscape tool with InfluenceFinder. In order to do so I need to go back to basics and objectives. Lets deal with objectives. For many many marketing reasons finding sites … Continue reading
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How do Americans view Brit startups?
How do Americans view British startups? Quaint would be a good description.. About 10 years ago I got friendly with a Boston VC (dammit why didn’t we have cloud based address books and LinkedIn then that way I’d remember my … Continue reading
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On Google and China
On Google and China Firstly let me state that I think Google is doing the right thing to make a stand against state intervention in the net. But I do wonder. Is this a convenient place to be for Google … Continue reading
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On Venture Capital and Value Add
I was recently an innocent bystander at a discussion about the success or failure of the European VC business between our VC (Laurence John of Amadeus Seed) and our Chairman, Tony Everett. I was slightly taken aback to hear from … Continue reading
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My interview with Webmaster Radio last week
Announcing the beta for SearchDNA (update – now called InfluenceFinder) this is a comprehensive interview with Jim at Webmasterradio
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