Posts by Jo Turnbull

Jo Turnbull is a freelance SEO consultant and is the founder of SEO Jo Blogs, which provides practical advice and tips for those in SEO. She has worked both agency and client side working on telecom and financial clients. Jo is passionate about search and travel and combined both in 2012 as she travelled round Europe in the first "State of Search Roadshow".

Interview in Paris via Skype with David Degrelle

David Degrelle

I interviewed, David Degrelle, founder and owner of  1ère Position, an SEO/SMO company in France.  We conducted the interview via modern technology, ie. skype as David was not in Paris when I visited last month.  I wanted to find out about the search market in France and the challenges of running your own search agency in France.

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SMX East 2012 New York – Day 3 #SMX

Conversation: Is There Really Advanced Link Building?

Day 3 and the last day of SMX New York saw a quieter crowd as the expo had packed up last night.  We waved them all a teary goodbye.  But there was still plenty of interesting sessions for those staying on at SMX. Here are a few highlights from the day.

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SMX East 2012 New York – Day 2 #SMX

SMX Day 2

Day 2 of SMX New York 2012 kicked off with the keynote speech which Jackie Hole has covered in an earlier post on State of Search. After the refreshment break, it was time to learn more from the sessions at SMX. Here are some of the highlights from Day 2 at SMX East. (more…)

SMX East 2012 New York – Day 1 #SMX

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This was my first time to attend SMX East and I was really pleased to attend the SEO and link building sessions. The sessions were Keyword Research and Copywriting, Surviving Penguins, Pandas and Other SEO Beasts, SEO is an investment and SEO Beware: Black Hat Tactics To Avoid and Be Wary of.

Here is summary of each of the four from the first day of SMX East.. (more…)

International Search Summit New York 2012 Afternoon Sessions #SMXISS

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The International Search Summit Afternoon Sessions included a great Case Study from Motoko Hunt for Adobe in Asia Pacific Markets, Challenges in the Middle East with Lee Mancini from Sekari, Yandex announce new features, and Don DePalma from the Common Sense Advisory discuss tools for Globalized websites and content.

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BrightonSEO – September 2012 Round Up

Popularity of BrightonSEO

This was my second visit to BrightonSEO, run by Kelvin Newman from SiteVisibility.  As the one in March, this was jam-packed full of speakers all with interesting presentations covering every element of SEO you could think of.

This was the reason there were 1700 attendees, the biggest number at BrightonSEO so far (hence the line of those in the photo on the right). (more…)

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