Exciting news: I’m an SEO Chicklet!

A little while ago I read Sheryl Sandberg’s fantastic book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead. At the time, I got really excited and decided I wanted to write a review so that other people would be inspired to read it too. But I knew that if I published it here, the readership numbers wouldn’t get it very far.

Now the amazing Hannah Smith, one of my colleagues at Distilled, writes for a great SEO blog, SEO Chicks, and all the contributors are women in the industry. So I had a thought to ask Hannah if she thought they’d be interested in my idea as a guest post. She checked with Lisa Myers, who started the blog, and Lisa was happy to publish it so I wrote the review and sent it off to Lisa.

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Posted in Personal, SEO Chicks, SEO Topics

I’m on TV! (well, Youtube) …

…also, my Distilled blog post on mobile and Google Analytics is live, and other updates

Hopefully in the next couple weeks I’ll start writing more regularly here, but since my last post I’ve been really busy with various projects at work and at home.

Recently, I filmed a short video with my boss, Will Critchlow, for the #DistilledLive Youtube series, in which we talked about mobile sites and search:

distilledlive video on mobile sites and search screenshot

Screenshot from the DistilledLive video on mobile sites and search.

You can also find the entire video and a text transcription here on the Distilled blog.

Also, a couple weeks ago my first Distilled blog post was published, on tracking mobile visitors with Google Analytics.

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My first SEOmoz post is live!

So this is a bit belated, but I realised that I hadn’t yet posted the link to my SEOmoz blog post. It’s a checklist for optimising a mobile site when responsive design isn’t an option.

seomoz post screenshot

There are a few reasons for why you might choose a mobile site over a responsive site; I mention some of them in my post, although a full analysis is best saved for another day. But the short version is, pure responsive design can be quite limiting, and many large sites are restricted by their content management system or development process or any number of other things.

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Posted in Mobile, Projects, SEO Topics, SEOmoz

Welcome to my new blog!

bridget1Hello everyone, and welcome to my very first blog post on my new personal website! I don’t really have anything particular to say, but it’s bothering me that my homepage is empty.

I’m having a very busy week at work as well as when I’m home, sorting various projects and generally settling into life in the City (aka London). But things are slowly but surely falling into place.  Hopefully once things settle I’ll have time to write a proper post, instead of just rambling on.

But it’s quite late, so for now I’ll sign off. TTFN!

 

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My name is Bridget Randolph and I am an SEO analyst at online marketing agency Distilled, based in London. I love learning, and talking, about online marketing, especially anything to do with mobile, social media (yay Pinterest!), and digital strategy for the arts.

This is my personal blog, so you’ll find me posting here about everything from SEO and online marketing to side projects to anything that captures my interest, really…with some news and personal updates mixed in!