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Blueclaw at the UK Search Awards

We’re delighted to announce that Blueclaw has been shortlisted for two awards in this year’s UK Search Awards. The UK Search Awards is a national awards competition that celebrates the very best in search engine optimisation and pay per click marketing.

SEO award nomination

Our first nomination is in the category for ‘Best use of Search – Retail’ and the award will be presented to the company that the judges recognise for a campaign that has most successfully enhanced the visibility of a website or web page in the retail sector. We’re really excited to be nominated in this category and we’re up against some very strong competition, so it’ll be really interesting to see whether we can win the award in this tough group!

SEO Manager David Wilding @AweSEOme

David will be joining the panel at AweSEOme on Wednesday 20th July 2011 to discuss the present state of SEO and how it will develop in the future.
AweSEOme is part of Leeds digital festival, holding seminars and gatherings to bring together all creative and digital agencies in and around Leeds.
Search/SEO round table discussion agenda

•    Panda update and how this affects strategy
•    Impact of social metrics and social personalisation on natural rankings
•    Mobile SEO
•    Google+1

David joined Blueclaw April this year and has 5 years of SEO experience including specialism of on page/architecture. He has worked in some of the most competitive online niches, ranging from finance to gambling.
David has a love for all things digital from semantics to social media and is keen to implement cutting edge technology across client websites to give them a competitive advantage.

If you are interested in hearing more from David and the expert panel make sure you get yourself to the Adelphi tomorrow at 12pm.
“Come and listen to our panel of Leeds based search experts, the city’s finest exponents of the form (and possibly in the country), participate in a round table discussion on anything and everything search. Can the specialists of Leeds help each other – without revealing their trade secrets?” www.leedsdigitalfestival.com

Gary Beal is Speaking at SAScon 2011

Gary Beal will be chairing the ‘Running a Global Search Campaign’ talk at the SAScon Conference’ this Thursday 19/05/11 in Manchester.

Gary has had a wide range of experience working across global clients and he will be sharing his tips and techniques within this session. Gary will be one amongst a range of keynote speakers including many of the world’s experts in search engine optimization (SEO), analytics and social media marketing.

The SAScon Conference  explores the latest thinking and cutting edge techniques and tools used in today’s digital industry.

For more information visit Sascon

 

 

Already Looking Forward to Internet World 2012

Internet World 2011 was a great success and we enjoyed the event so much that we have booked our place for 2012 already. Thanks to everyone that was involved and those who stopped by to chat. We are looking forward to the exciting and busy months ahead.

Join the Blueclaw Team – Junior Designer Vacancy

Due to continued growth, Blueclaw are looking for a Junior designer to join the talented design team.

If you have experience in a design field and want to work in an energetic , fast paced environment then Blueclaw would like to hear from you. We are ideally looking for someone with 1 year of experience (although graduates with strong portfolios will be considered), who is familiar with all Adobe programmes (Photoshop being essential) experience in HTML and CSS is preferred (with knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, PHP, MYSQL a bonus).

The successful applicant will find themselves on a comfortable learning curve, developing their skills in both design and code. Initially the role will entail the creation of web ready graphics as needed, for example: affiliate banners, HTML emails, slider graphics and developing work to support the main template designs. As you develop you will start to take projects from concept/wireframe stage through to signed off graphics and then onto the web builds.

Applicants must be able to provide examples of past work and be comfortable with all aspects of the design process. Print experience would be an added benefit.

If you would like to apply, please send your CV along with a covering letter to  c.belfield@blueclaw.co.uk or call us on 0113 234 3300