Distilled Establishes SEO Consulting Partnership with SEOmoz

SEATTLE, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, one of the UK's fastest growing digital marketing agencies*, Distilled [http://www.distilledconsulting.com], announced the opening of its first United States office and a formal partnership with SEOmoz [http://www.seomoz.org]. Located in Seattle, the new office will enable the company to expand its client base and operate the custom SEO consulting practice formerly run by SEOmoz. The consulting partnership leverages Distilled's expertise in SEO and will enable SEOmoz to focus fully on its world-leading search engine optimization tools, resources and testing.

Anticipated to be worth approximately $1m in the first year, the partnership is a natural extension of work the companies have jointly completed for major brands such as Microsoft and Real Networks, and fast-growth VC-backed firms such as Scribd.com, Avvo.com and Etsy.com. Distilled will also continue to write for the influential SEOmoz blog, as well as answering Q&As and contributing to product decisions and testing. Through this, Distilled will help maintain SEOmoz's reputation as the information and resource hub for search marketers worldwide.

"Distilled's partnership with SEOmoz has worked perfectly because of our shared vision of SEO in clients' boardrooms," comments Will Critchlow, Co-founder of Distilled. "The opportunity to take over their consulting business as their subscription platform takes off presents us with a fantastic opportunity to expand in the US and we look forward to rapid growth in 2010."

Rand Fishkin, CEO and Co-founder of SEOmoz continues, "At SEOmoz, we like to have our cake and eat it, too. We're thrilled to have Distilled taking over our consulting business and growing its operations here in the US. The partnership with Distilled lets us focus on what we do best — build great SEO software and tools — while continuing to gain the experience and insight that comes from an experienced consulting team working across diverse projects."

Note to Editors:

*Distilled's revenue more than doubled in 2007/8, more than tripled in 2008/9 and is set to double again in 2009/10 (financial year: Apr-Mar)

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Distilled UK

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Background information (and photos) of Will Critchlow

Background information (and photos) of Rand Fishkin

Distilled and SEOmoz - a relationship snapshot:

• 2007: Distilled and SEOmoz started working together with Distilled informally receiving referrals from SEOmoz's marketplace
• 2008: The companies teamed up more formally as Global Associates, delivering joint projects, continuing with referrals and with Distilled contributing to the SEOmoz blog, PRO training seminar in Seattle and PRO Q&A service
• 2009: Continued the Global Associate relationship, collaborated on the sold out London PRO SEO training seminar which brought together hundreds of expert SEOs (and aspiring expert SEOs) for two days of fantastic learning and networking

SOURCE Distilled