Jaamit: an SEO Legend

The below is an internal email sent out today at OMD which I thought would be nice to share with the wider SEO community.

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Today marks the day last year when we lost a highly valued colleague and friend on the OMD SEO team Jaamit Durrani. His dedication, passion, humour & intelligence he showed while he was with us has had a lasting effect on us personally, but also has been crucial to the SEO team’s growth from a very small team last year to a highly successful team of 15+ this year; a year where we’ve won our first ever major SEO-only client, scored 100% in client feedback and continue to build a better offering month on month.

As a small tribute, and hopefully an insight for those who weren’t lucky enough to meet or work with him, this week’s links highlight some of his best blog posts, as well as some of the tributes posted online:

1. Seven sensational SEO tips for ecommerce sites | Econsultancy

econsultancy.com

For the first of my guest posts for Econsultancy I wanted to take a step beyond the generic, oft-rehashed ‘SEO tips’ (you know, things like “include keywords in your page titles” and “create great content”) and contribute something based on my experience. Guest post by Jaamit

2. Nine common SEO campaign mistakes | Econsultancy

econsultancy.com

Running an ongoing SEO campaign is a lot like spinning plates. With so many factors in play in search engine algorithms, you really need to be aware of all of them at once to ensure a successful campaign. Guest post by Jaamit

3. SEO Insight: Analysis and Rants on Search & Internet Marketing

web.archive.org

Jaamit’s blog is sadly no longer available (however we are looking into how it can be reinstated); this link from the Internet Archive luckily preserves most of his posts fully intact.

4. SMX London – Top 10 Tips – By Jaamit Durrani – SEOgadget.co.uk

seogadget.co.uk

As an illustration of how open and sharing Jaamit was with his knowledge, this is a guest post he did for a competing agency’s blog

5. PPC vs SEO Showdown: SES London 2010 Recap | Fresh Egg SEO Blog

www.freshegg.com

Before OMD, Jaamit kicked off his career in SEO with a small Brighton digital agency FreshEgg (owned by James Caan). Here’s one of his posts from their blog.

6. Link building in real life – A practical guide to dominating the SERPS | Fresh Egg SEO Blog

www.freshegg.com

Coverage from FreshEgg of Jaamit’s first conference speaking engagement at Think Visibility in Leeds.

7. Link Building in Real Life: Think Visibility 2010 Recap – SearchTalk | SearchTalk

searchtalk.co.uk

Coverage of the same talk from OMD’s Jamie Peach.

8. Jaamit Tribute

explicitly.me

A touching tribute from one of Jaamit’s close friends in the industry.

9. Jaamit Durrani Tribute – SearchTalk

searchtalk.co.uk

Another very touching tribute from Omnicom Head of Search Mark Mitchell, detailing the truly impressive impact Jaamit had in his short time at OMD.

10. @Jaamit – Twitter

twitter.com

Jaamit’s twitter account – it’s easy to see just how highly engaged he was with the SEO community and how willing he was to help out others whenever possible.

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Miss you mate.

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