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Takeaways from SMX Israel
Yesterday, SMX Israel took place and Majestic were proud to be major sponsors. I thought I would note some of the interesting takeaways that before I forget them.
1: Excel for SEO rocks.
Two presenters mentioned Neil Bosma’s Excel plugin for SEOs which looks like it absolutely is brilliant. Neil – I hope you’ll look at our OpenApps system and consider integrating our link data. You know how to find me. Unfortunately, the plugin doesn’t work on my Mac Air so I’ll have to get back to the office and start playing with it on a PC.
2: My presentation on analysing algorithm changes like Panda
What really excites me about hearing that this Neil Basma’s plugin was already available, is that it will be even easier to implement some of the statistical tests that I was discussing on my panel, which was about analysing algorithm updates like Panda (Embedded below).
3: Marty Weintraub is Married
I do feel for Laura Weintraub. Marty is a very entertaining speaker, but I would imagine he is an exhausting husband!
4: Majestic’s Backlink Data is indeed Strong
Israeli SEOs are (I am glad to say) obsessed with links and Rankabove discussed their research into the various link data suppliers and I am delighted to say that Majestic came out on top. We are far from complacent, though, and have some exciting developments lined up for 2012.
5: Here are some more useful SEO Tools
My second presentation of the day was on the SEO Tools I use. Naturally, Majestic SEO is in the list, but I take my hat off to some of the other tools out there and went into why I like many of these tools. Again, the presentation is embedded below.
SMX Israel has again been an excellent conference with an excellent line up of speakers. I am glad Majestic SEO were able to sponsor the event and I wish Barry Schwarz and everyone a safe journey home.
British and Dutch Prime Ministers come to Science Park
Believe it or not, Mark Rutte (The Dutch Prime Minister) and David Cameron (The British Prime Minister) were in Faraday Wharf at Birmingham Science Park Aston last week as they recognised the first network “node” in Cisco’s Virtual Incubator.
Majestic – whilst being a British company – has Dutch backing, but as our Dutch investor wasn’t in the building that day and the Marketing Director (that would be me) was “marketing” with Miss Chile at Pubcon in Las Vegas, we didn’t mind that the two prime ministers didn’t get a chance to say hi.
Our founder – Alex – doesn’t take cold calls.
In all seriousness – when Majestic SEO chose its offices, we looked long and hard to find offices in England’s second city where we would feel comfortable as we developed what we hoped would be a reputable brand that would be respected throughout the world – albeit in our niche market. For not one but two Prime Ministers to come to the science park shows that we chose wisely in that regard. We are in a building with some of the UK’s most innovative startups and as they are almost all in the technology sector, we feel that we are in great company.
You can see more about the Prime Ministers’ visit here.
Yahoo Site Explorer’s demise will not affect Majestic SEO
Today we are seeing Yahoo Site Explorer coming offline. This will not affect Majestic SEO’s operations in any way at all.
Yahoo Site Explorer was launched in September 2005 to mixed acclaim but became the main source of link analysis data in the world for several years. It is now being retired as we speak and its architect, Tim Mayer laments its demise.
Majestic SEO does not – and never has – used Yahoo’s data. Whilst we expect an increase in the Free services that Majestic offers as a result of this closure, we have already planned for this eventuality within our infrastructure and see no issues in handling the increased traffic to our site.
Majestic crawls the web independently of any search engines and we surpassed Yahoo’s data set many years ago.
We would like to say thank you to Yahoo for Yahoo Site Explorer’s contribution to Internet Marketers everywhere.
Historic Backlinks Index Update
Today we’ve updated our Historic backlinks index, stats are as follows: 355,472,718,166 unique pages crawled 3,588,647,290,128 unique URLs in total. All fresh data crawled in period up to 20 October 2011 was added to this update.
Majestic wins “Best SEO Technology”
There were 400 or so people at the Emirates Stadium last night. Perhaps not Arsenal’s largest crowd of the season, but certainly one of the most enthusiastic.
It was the UK Search Awards and Majestic SEO was nominated in the best SEO Technology category, along with some noble competition: Wordtracker, Screaming Frog and Analytics SEO.
well – as you can see from the picture, we are delighted to say we won. My speech wasn’t the most eloquent I have ever made – but it was mercifully short. So let me take this opportunity to thank all of our loyal customers for helping to give Majestic the reputation that it has today. I would also like to thank Nicky and all the people at Don’t Panic for organizing the event. It was a blast!
Thanks, also, to the development team in Birmingham. Great job guys!