You might have missed Think Visibility in Leeds this year, but I recommend you keep a lookout for tickets on sale for September 2009 (I think). Congrats to Dom (spot the link!) – @thehodge – for organising the very enjoyable and successful Think Visibility conference 2009 in Leeds. What a great event packed with great speakers discussing seo, affiliate marketing, blogging, analytics and a lot more;

Andrew Burnette, Chris Garrett and Me

Andrew Burnett, Chris Garrett and Me (Chris Clarkson & DaveN can be seen in background)

I seemed to spend a lot of time with Big @ChrisClarkson (his Think Visibility write up here) and enjoyed it when we wasn’t trying to sell me cheap holidays – he is the guy to squarely blame for me and our Irish friend’s (@AMcDermott) Alastair McDermott’s hangover on conference day.

I enjoyed listening to every speaker as I sat nursing my pre -conference beer hangover though;

  1. My friend the Evil Genius Tim Nash (when not hacking DaveN’s Twitter account with Dom) was using buckets and explosives to metaphor something but I was still suffering at this time in the morning – very dissappointed to miss the man in the white coat stuff at the very start
  2. Al Carlton (@AlCarlton) & Kieron (@kierondonoghue) was talking affiliate marketing and although I had a very bad hangover, I really took a lot of good things from their talks – inspirational advice
  3. Chris Garrett (@chrisgarrett) is a very nice guy and a pleasure to meet who has written a great book about making money blogging and did a solid presentation with 25 points about successful blogging
  4. Guy Redwood (@eyetracking) did a fascinating presentation about eyetracking – I picked up a lot of ideas from this
  5. Dave Naylor (@davenaylor) was talking about ranking for UK terms & crap you here from some desperate seo companies and playing about with online business authority – his! A real pleasure to meet him and his wife BeckyNaylor. Thanks again Dave for your advice about my issue in our private chat.
  6. Tom Critchlow (@tomcritchlow) gave an interesting talk on reputation management issues and solutions but unfortunately I was a little poorly by this stage to try and get 5 minutes with him and I think might have been an affiliate for brides from foreign lands or something but the room was packed, and hot, and my head was spinning by this point – I think I was actually sitting on the floor
  7. I nearly never made it to Patrick Altoft (@patrickaltoft) discussing different types of links (I’ve been thinking along those lines for a long time as well) – but I am glad I did because he gave a very relaxed professional presentation i as I expected him to do. I’d ended up at that one but dissappointed I missed Search Engine Chocolate’s (Joanna Jay Butler’s) presentation on Google Analytics

It was a real pleasure to spend time with Andrew (@andrewburnett) and Wiebke Burnett (@wiieb) and finally meet fellow Scot Paul Steven (@NorthSouthMedia) & James (@ttsjames) and forgive me if I have missed anybody out – this is taking ages) (if you tweet me or the post I will add you in!) Shout out also to Polr, to Matt and also to Zoe Piper for a magic business card!

Liveblogged here and more here and big Chris’s event analysis is worth a read too.

Will definitely be snapping up a ticket for next year and if you’re into making money online, seo and web design everybody on this page is worth following on Twitter or subscribing to their blogs.

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