Leeds welcomed a new SEO conference this year with the arrival of Think Visibility in Leeds. Some of the industries top speakers were on the line up, covering topics such as Link Buying, Silver-bullet Websites and rel=”nofollow”.
Think Visibility, more than SEO
Think Visibility wasn’t all about SEO, Chris Garrett gave a Blogging Talk, Al Carlton and Kieron Donoghue talked Affiliate and Peter Cooper (The Ruby man) talked about… mmm not sure actually, though I remember Hitler seemed to pop up a lot!
Hot Topics
Link Buying
Link Buying seemed to pop up in conversation a lot. Pro’s and con’s were batted end to end and a clear divide seemed to emerge as to if you should/shouldn’t buy links.
Google Products
Dave Naylor, of Bronco Internet, illustrated how Google Products was still an unexploited part of Google’s SERPs (Search Engine Results Page).
Silver-bullet websites
Very interesting learning about silver-bullet websites in SEO, what they are, how some webmasters are unaware they have one of their own and how some SEOers use them at times to bring down their competitors… real dirty stuff. I was also amazed to learn that one of the national newspaper sites was indeed a silver-bullet website, and getting a link from them could indeed destroy your ranking position. I shall digress away and not reveal which one it is 
Reputation Management
Tom Critchlow, from Distilled, gave a great talk on Reputation Management.
Other
- MSN vs Google Adwords
- Brand name targeted PPC for quick gain affiliate revenue
- Link Juice, explained by Tim Nash with 4 orange holey buckets and some water.
- Page Rank (PR), distributing the weight of the high PR domains and pages for maximum gain
- General SEO myths quashed
- Lots more
#drinksvisibility
I know some of the speakers personally and managed to blag an invite to the speakers party the night before the event. After a barrel of ponk, a few dodgy pool hussels and some funny banter, we all fell into the hotel a good hour or two after midnight.
The next Think Visibility
All in all this mini SEO conference is well worth attending, with the next Think Visibility conference planned for September. A special thanks to Dom for organising it.
