Search London – SEO Making it work – Judith Lewis

After a summer off networking, Search London has its first networking event of the autumn.

Judith Lewis, a well known search professional in the industry and blogger at mostlyaboutchocolate.com and SEOChicks will be speaking at the event. She will be sharing her experience and learnings from seo along with the best ways to get clients to implement seo.

The event “SEO – Making it work” will take place:

When: Tuesday, September 6th, 7:00pm

Where: The Doggett’s Coat and Badge, 1 Blackfriars Bridge.

Over 60 people have RSVPed so far, so hurry and reserve your place today.

Please RSVP on meetup.com/search-london to guarantee your place

Search London – SEO Tools

I am arranging another meetup next month called “Search London – SEO Tools”

It will take place on Tuesday June 14th at the Doggett’s Coat and Badge.

Linkdex will be sponsoring the event and will be showing us how they have helped companies with their seo.

Linkdex has developed a suite of integrated seo and project management tools to help improve a website’s rankings and traffic. It’s a combination of easy to use but very powerful collaboration tools such as share tasks, keyword research, rank tracking, link building and competitive analysis all within one platform that gives you insightful data for your seo strategy.

John Straw, the founder of Linkdex will be talking about how he developed the seo platform with real results from those who have used the tools.

RSVP to guarantee your place at “Search London – SEO Tools” on June 14th

http://www.meetup.com/search-london

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New Year Search Club

New Year Search Club was held on Monday, January 17th.

Thank you for everyone who came, it was a great success. Everyone seemed to have enjoyed the meetup and I will be hosting another event soon.

We were lucky enough to have two guest speakers. Finlay from Google talked about what 2011 means for search and Richard Fitzgerald informed us about his 52burritodates.com and how he turned his competition win of a year supply of burritors into a social media frenzy.

Here are a few photos from New Year Search Club 2011.

For more information about the meetup please visit http://www.meetup.com/London-SEO-SMO-PPC

New Year Search club photos

Mobile App meet up

Those in seo and mobile seo may know of an event called meetup.com. I am a newbie to the meetup group and have really enjoyed it. I have been to the London Bloggers meet up on two occasions and it was a great set up.

Yesterday, I went to App Jam which was the first meet up and if this one is anything to go by, I will certainly be going to the others. App Jam was set up by Tania and Laurence Adermi and they organised a whole host of entrepreneurs and developers to talk about their apps.

One of the speakers was Remco van den Elzen who founded Distimo and talked about his experience with apps.
What I found interesting about Distimo is that if offers a free analytics tool called Distimo Monitor which they use to monitor their own apps and those of apps in stores.

There was also a panel where there was a discussion on the subject “To App or not to app”. Apps appear to be the way forward despite the fact that not every phone is a smart phone. This was a good topic to discuss as I mentioned in my last post, mobile app or mobile site people are divided between making their website seo friendly and building an app. An app is more expensive and if you do not have the resources, make sure your site is visible on a mobile browser, but the conclusion was that Apps are the future for companies that want visibility on handsets.

No one mentioned anything about mobile seo which I was surprised about. Perhaps they do not think it is as important as mobile apps. Or maybe mobile apps is seo? However there are more app meet ups to come and this topic will be explored further.

Here is an overview of the topics discussed at the meet up:

40 AppJam: App developer demo include
Name: Marko Balabanovic
Company: Lastminute.com
App: Topsee – compiled by an all-star cast of London bloggers, the real experts on the latest greatest places to go and things to see, the top foodie finds, cool bars, shopping spots and quirky sights. http://www.lastminute.com/site/labs/topsee.html

Name: Morgan Davies
Company: Sauce Digital
App: Flick Football 3D – a unique gesture based football game – played in first person

http://www.saucedigital.com/

Name: Michael Breidenbruecker
Company: Reality Jockey
App: RjDj – ses the power of the new generation personal music players like iPhone and iPod Touch to create mind blowing hearing sensations.

http://more.rjdj.me/what/

Name: Doug Chrisholm
Company: Rippill
App: Rippill – iPhone and mobile apps which utilise social and location-based features

http://www.rippll.com/default.aspx

Name: Neil Stanley
Company: Almex
App: iHi – iHi breaks the ice in any situation with eye catching electronic speech bubbles.

http://www.appstorehq.com/ihi-iphone-75206/app

Name: Kavin Bharti Mittal & Namit Chandha
Company: Kodu
App: Movies Now – Movies Now! makes it easy to find cinemas near you and check showtimes. You can browse the latest movies and watch high quality trailers on the go.

http://www.kodu.co.uk/moviesnow/