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am a web and technology consultant and partner in Venture Skills, a new media and IT company based in the UK. In addition to Venture Skills I teach at a local university and for an IT training company my specialism is Knowledge & Information management which includes search engine optimisation.
About the Site - This site is my place on the web if you have stumbled here looking for Tim Nash the painter you can find him and his art work here. If you were looking for Tim Nash who has worked in films like Mr & Mrs smith and Sleepover well I can't really help but you can see his film credit list here(yahoo) & here(msn)If you are a current client
Welcome to my site if you were looking for the Venture Skills support section its at venture-skills.co.uk please feel free to email support@venture-skills.co.uk with any problems quoting your reference number which is on your quote|Invoice.
If you are a current or former student
Welcome to my site if you were looking for lecture notes I do intend to centralise them here but for the time being please visit your relevant Intranet sites for notes and tutorials I will start to build an archive here over the next few months. Any problems do feel free to email|Skype|Instant message me.
Testing video service
Yes we are doing tellie, well initially seomoz is doing the actual tellie but if all goes well expect a pile of live reports
SEO toolkit
The big problem for SEO/SEM consultants is keeping tab on projects and making sure they cover all their bases methodically. Some really on post it notes others use home built programs but then comes along a program like
SEO Solo which is designed to take care of it for you.
I came across Solo SEO a couple of month from a review on a blog, I tried the free trial but didn't spend more then a day with it at the time it was very buggy and clunkly now I've had a chance to go back and I'm impressed.
Once you have
Caged animals and masters
If you place an animal in a cage with other animals they either fight amongst themselves develop a flock mentality or become a pack. Digg has always had sheep it's what makes link baiting on Digg so easy and its always had a pack of childish and nasty people who generally are abusive and aggressive to well anything. Digg has for a long time now been known for its Anti SEO policy to the point of censoring posts which may possibly be devoted to promoting a site on-line. They could well be doing this to save themselves in the long run.
Apogee Search one click away
Apogee are a search engine marketing company not to be mistaken for a search engine optimisation company. Their blog covers a whole range of subjects but is primarily focused on PPC which for those who hate acronyms is Pay Per Click the most famous and most widespread being Google Adwords. Indeed Apogee are certified adword professionals and therefore should know when it comes to PPC what they are talking about.
So you want to become an SEO consultant?
Are you behind a desk thinking I would just love to become a great internet marketer but I just don't know how!
Well Look no further I'm going to share with you some of the tools of the trade and great places to learn. But lets start with the basics if you want a central resource I really recommend buying Aaron Wall SEO book its packed with the basics and is worth every penny, I think it will save you days of research if not weeks.
Tim Nash the IT Consultant & joint founder of Venture Skills