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Getting started with Majestic SEO – Training Video

Until you register with Majestic SEO – which is free – It is impossible to start seeing the power of the Majestic SEO data. For that reason, we have today updated our training video to show you what Majestic is all about and how to get started.

Our main Video Training page is here.

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.

How to use OpenApps

Whether you are a developer wanting low costy access to our API or a Majestic user wondering about whether letting a third party tool access your account is clever, I put together a 4 minute video on how OpenApps works. It’s pretty simple really. Just point and click…

WHATEVER subscription a user is on (even free) OpenApps allows developers who cannot buy our data “wholesale” so to speak to build applications that use our data through a subscriber’s account. This means the developer gets to build really cool applications without having to worry about whether one user is going to cost him or her a fortune. If you connect your account to a third party app, the app will only be able to access the account to the level you are subscribed.

You MUST trust the application developer not to rob you of all your resources! but if you are unsure, this video also shows you how to revole access to a third party application in your account. You should also note that API users cannot access “free” accounts, so if they analyze your own account, this use a bit of your monthly allowances.

Hope the video is helpful!

Historic Index Update

We have now updated the Historic Index for January, so that it now contains link data all the way from June 2006 through to December 18th 2011 – just a week before Christmas.

The vital statistics as of today are:

See Us In Person

With Christmas and the New Year celebrations now over, it’s back to business for everyone at Majestic SEO and with the amount of conferences coming up between now and March, the chances are high that there will be a Majestic SEO representative making an appearance and in some cases two.

The first conference that we are attending is SMX Jerusalem on 15th January. This conference will be attended by Dixon Jones and Branko Rihtman. We will not only be speaking but will also be a premium sponsor at the event. So if you are going, make sure you check us out.

The second conference we will be at is the IEG Predictive Analytics Conference  in San Diego on the 23rd and 24th February and again we will be speaking at this event.  Dixon Jones will be the Majestic representative at this event, as he will at all events. As the IEG Predictive Analytics Conference is a different kind of conference to those we have attended before, we have been able to negotiate a 20% discount with the organizers of the event for all our readers. So if you would like to attend the conference, please insert this code PASD2012 when you make your booking to receive this discount. The third event will be SMX San Jose from the 28th February to March 1st.

March is where it gets really busy for us as we will be attending four conferences that month, all within a short period of each other. The first two conferences we will be attending in March are both in the UK. On March 3rd, we will be at Thinkvisability in Leeds where we will also be sponsoring the Go Karting event the following day. Then on the 9th March, we will be attending the UK Search Conference in London, where again Dixon will be speaking.

Once the UK conferences are over, its back to travelling around the world, with conferences in the USA and Germany. The third conference in March is SES New York on the 19th-23rd and will be attended by both Dixon Jones and Brian Bowers. During the first day of the conference, Dixon will be giving a theatre presentation on ‘Link Intelligence and Analysis on a Shoestring Budget, using Majestic SEO’. Not only that, he will also be speaking on the Spotlight Session ‘Lords of the Links’ on the third day of the conference.

Our final conference in March will be SMX Munich on the 27th and 28th March. Dixon will be attending this conference, where he will also be speaking.

So that is the plan for the first three months of 2012, and as you can see we will be extremely busy attending and speaking at many conferences around the world. So if you are attending any of the conferences that we will be at, make sure you say hi.