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is part of the marketing team at Wordtracker where she's been working for over five years. She's also a blogger with off the beaten path travel blog Quirky Travel and offers SEO writing services, internet marketing and WordPress advice on Web 'n' Words She's on Google+ Get in touch on Twitter

Articles by Julie McNamee

  • Illustration for 315 tips and takeaways from SMX London 2013

    315 tips and takeaways from SMX London 2013 Posted by Julie McNamee on 15 May 2013

    Julie McNamee and Hal McDermott (so new he doesn't have his own author page yet) were at SMX London 2013. Here are our 315 tips from the two-day search conference.

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    Are these the best WordPress plugins? Posted by Julie McNamee on 24 April 2013

    WordPress developers always have a list of WordPress plugins they wouldn't be without. Here's a selection that Julie McNamee keeps seeing in the developer forums (and many she's used herself). Have you used any of them? Do you agree? Have you any to add?

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    50 tips and takeaways from the BrightonSEO 2013 conference Posted by Julie McNamee on 13 April 2013

    The Brighton SEO conference is a meeting of the UK's best online marketers. If you couldn't make it to the April 2013 event, we've collected 50 tasty tips and ingenious insights.

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    SES London 2013: 214 Top tips and takeaways Posted by Julie McNamee on 19 February 2013

    The SES London conference covers both basic and cutting edge SEO, PPC and online marketing. Julie McNamee, Gareth Davies and Justin Deaville collected the best top tips, takeaways and memorable quotes from SES London 2013. Here's what we picked up.

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    30 reasons your customers aren't buying: How to optimize your shopping cart Posted by Julie McNamee on 31 January 2013

    You know from your analytics data that customers are visiting your website: but they're not buying. Here's our list of 30 potential obstacles to that purchase (hopefully the first of many), along with suggestions on how blast the obstacles to pieces.

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    How to improve your link request success rate Posted by Julie McNamee on 11 December 2012

    One of the highlights of London's LinkLove conference in 2012 was Mike King's talk on outreach email analysis (much of it manual) that had been carried out by his company iAcquire on 300,000 outreach emails. Here are some of the tips he passed on on what to incorporate into your link building requests ...

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    21 top tips to find trends Posted by Julie McNamee on 16 November 2012

    Keeping on top of the 'new' has never been as important as it is now. Thankfully, there are tools out there to help you to identify key trends and here are 20 of the best of them.

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    220 SEO tips and tactics from SearchLove 2012 Posted by Julie McNamee on 29 October 2012

    It's been a bumper year for actionable tips at Distilled's SearchLove London Conference 2012. We've gathered 220 takeaways and tactics on SEO, conversion rate optimization, content and much else besides. And there's a bonus pic at the end.

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    Discover the secrets of a great landing page Posted by Julie McNamee on 04 October 2012

    How do you persuade someone to visit your web page? And how do you persuade them to purchase your product or sign up for your newsletter? Landing page optimization is the answer. We have some handy tips to follow and some examples of websites who already know the secrets.

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    66 tips from BrightonSEO 2012 Posted by Julie McNamee on 30 September 2012

    The Brighton SEO conference is a meeting of the UK's best online marketers. If you couldn't make it the September 2012 event , we've collected 66 tasty tips and ingenious insights.

  • Illustration for You can optimize your WordPress blog, it's easy!

    You can optimize your WordPress blog, it's easy! Posted by Julie McNamee on 25 July 2012

    There are over 53 million WordPress blogs out there and that doesn't even include those not hosted on WordPress.com. So how do you make yours stand out from the rest and attract a greater share of the traffic? One way to do that is to optimize your blog. And even if you're not a coder, you can do this. Read on to find out how ...

  • 213 Tips and takeaways from SMX 2012 Posted by Julie McNamee on 15 May 2012

    Mal Darwen, Julie McNamee and Andrew Tobert were at SMX London this year. We've gathered up 213 tips and takeaways. Read through, learn, and share these tips.

  • Illustration for How to optimize your web pages and keep Google happy

    How to optimize your web pages and keep Google happy Posted by Julie McNamee on 19 April 2012

    Optimizing your website properly is crucial to getting your site seen, searched and approved by the search engines and the public. This article shows just how you can do that using Wordtracker's updated Keywords tool.

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    52 Top SEO tips from BrightonSEO 2012 Posted by Julie McNamee on 19 April 2012

    Wordtracker took a trip to beautiful Brighton on the south coast of England to report on the latest tips and tricks from the search marketing professionals speaking at BrightonSEO. Here's the best of that advice.

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    55 top tips and tricks from LinkLove London 2012 Posted by Julie McNamee on 08 April 2012

    Wordtracker was at LinkLove London last week, and we've put together a list of link building tips and tricks picked up from a very practical conference.

  • SES London 2012 - 173 Tips and takeaways Posted by Julie McNamee on 20 February 2012

    The SES London conference covers basic, advanced and cutting edge SEO, PPC and online marketing. Julie McNamee, Justin Deaville and Gareth Davies collected the best top tips, takeaways and memorable quotes from SES London 2012.