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8. Links are dead
I want to make it 100% clear that this is not what I am saying
10. It’s link building that is in trouble
I’ve been answering SEOmoz Q&A
since it looked like this
All the answers to “why don’t I
rank?” used to be “you need more
links”.
Now?
12. I’m not here on a moral crusade
I just happen to prefer flywheels over explosive unsustainable growth
13. …and I’m not risk averse
I have invested in all kinds of risky things (defined as “things that might not work”)
20. We took a 150-year-old form of communication
“Distribution of the slave population of the United States”, 1861
23. As practiced by respected newspapers
“The Ebb and Flow of Movies”, 2008
25. Try to make the design support the data
Please tell me this was a joke
26. Incidentally, a good use of Pinterest
Maybe the only one I’ve found yet - http://pinterest.com/scottcowley/ugly-infographics/
27. Guest columns have existed forever
Does your process look like this? Please tell me no. [Hat-tip Carson Ward]
28. We can’t even clean up after ourselves
Without hacking people off
29. information tied to verified online
profiles will be ranked higher than
content without such verification
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google
56. Hire the right VP Marketing or you’ll
just end up with a bunch of blue pens
with your logo on them
59. If you aren’t naturally technical
Start here – incredible deck from Jamie @ SEOmoz
61. Measure links based on engaged visitors
I made you a custom report and advanced segments for non-bounces and >2 pages
64. We know why no-one is linking to you
Your site is ugly, your content sucks, no-one knows who you are
65. We know how influential a person is
Haha. Just kidding.
70. = 1 hour or less
See
here
= an afternoon
= day or more
72. Get a journalist to run a story based on your tip
Call 3 journalists & tell them you thought they’d be interested in a story you found online
73. Present to a crowd of 200+ people
See Justin Briggs’ explanation of how
75. Negotiate with a salesperson
Get more than 10% off retail price of something (doesn’t have to be a car!)
76. Record a screencast or webinar
Get it watched by more than 20 people. Camtasia / Google+ Hangouts on air
79. Debate a business case
With 3+ colleagues who you don’t normally work with. We have enjoyed 2078 & 4168
81. Run a live usability test
Offer to buy a stranger a coffee. Resist the urge to coach them
84. Read to a child
In some ways, they’re an easy audience. In others…
86. Install a web server
I’d start with Apache. Send enough traffic that it breaks. Fix it.
87. Build a web crawler
Crawl 10,000 pages. Discover how little of the web is nicely-formatted HTML
88. Search through some log files
Find 3 crawlers on your site that aren’t googlebot, slurp or bingbot
90. Contribute to an open source
project
Github makes some parts of this really easy. The hard part is working out git
93. Run a conversion rate test end to end
I recommend Optimizely. Don’t worry if you don’t get significant results
94. Install and play with r
Take some Google Analytics data and strip seasonality
96. Film and edit some video
Phone camera. iMovie / Premiere Elements. Lower third. Cut a scene. Improve audio.
99. Build a wireframe
Try Balsamiq. If you can’t think of anything, rework distilled.net homepage & send me it
100. Remove
someone
from a
photo
Before After
101. Rewrite / redesign a landing page
Cheri Percy wrote about our own conversion rate trials and tribulations
102. Write for a publication you’ve previously bought
Bonus points for calling yourself a “published author”
104. Thanks.
WILL CRITCHLOW
will.critchlow@distilled.net
@willcritchlow
105. Image credits
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