Ben Garry

For the first time in what feels like years I've actually published a blog on the Impression site! It sums up a lot of my recent experiences delivering SEO training projects and talks about their benefits for the whole business: impression.co.uk/blog/why-seo-t…

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Today's challenge: Wasp SEO. Opened the window for some air and IMMEDIATELY this little guy came to join me. Looking forward to writing quality SEO guidance with the threat of certian doom hanging over me.

Bard-ception

@LukeDavisSEO Ooooo followed!

@fazzer_snap Seen a couple of replies for Destroyer and Agatha, but also got to throw in Knull in a game where no one's destroying anything.

What’s the worst card you can get from The Raft? I’ll go first

@LukeDavisSEO ...I'm not even sure if that answers the question but at the very least it's my own experience 😂

@LukeDavisSEO And again, speaking only personally, a lot of that comes down to essentially my own radar for E-A-T. I don't inherently trust a new source on the internet. I would rather build up sources that I do trust and that I know have built up the authority to speak on a topic over time.

I've been getting back into board game reviewing on @MattThomasson2's blog, the Friendly Board Gamer, and thought I'd share some here. I particularly enjoyed writing this post about the latest entry in my favourite board game series of all time, Clank: thefriendlyboardgamer.wordpress.com/2023/01/30/cla…

@alexmdsheldon Awesome! And an interesting looking game to boot 👀

Edited this short vid together and I think it turned out pretttty good!

In a first for my agency career I did some client-inspired baking this weekend, making Welsh cakes to celebrate the end of a Wales-based project 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 And in true social media style this image shows nothing of the pain and rage involved in the 90 minutes it took to create them 😬

Impression's Organic Director, @Petejov, has written an excellent article exploring the benefits of combining SEO and CRO! More organic traffic + a better user experience = happy marketers. impression.co.uk/blog/seo-and-c…

It's worth saying that although the intro of America Chavez was one of the few redeeming qualities of the horrendous last Dr Strange movie for me, it was only playing the game that got me to want to know more. Shows the power of getting people really invested in something.

The marketing power of a good game...it took only a week or so after starting to play Marvel Snap for me to order a graphic novel just to find out more about one of my favourite characters/cards in the game, America Chavez.

impression.co.uk/resources/tool… My very tall colleague @aarondicks has created a nifty tool to extract URLs from sitemaps. It even works with index sitemaps!

Made a little wellbeing change at the start of the year – writing 'posture check' on the whiteboard that's just to the right of my screen. Every now and then I see it and it reminds me to stop slouching in my chair! It's a simple little trick, but working so far.

Oh, and @LukeDavisSEO's tweet, coincidentally timed for when I was already seriously considering downloading the app, pushed me over the edge 😬

Marvel Snap has given me a very good example of the power of ads. I'm clearly their target audience (card gamer and Marvel fan) and I was absolutely battered by ads everywhere I went online (including YouTube videos for other games) for a month or more until I finally gave in 😂

I seem to have forgotten how to sit in a desk chair over Christmas and now find myself uncontrollably lounging like a sloth.