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Identifying Comment Spam with Google

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 by Paul O'Brien

I was torn on how to title this post; this is either Further proof of the depths to which Google’s bot will go to crawl your content or An alternative to Akismet Have I lost you? Let me start from the beginning. I have an unhealthy interest in comment spam. It sits in a different

Published in Blogs & Blogging, Google, Natural Search / SEO

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Ping bing – The SEO Tongue Twister

Tuesday, 20 October 2009 by Paul O'Brien

One of the techniques used to attract search engine spiders to your blog or website is called pinging. Essentially, you alert the search engine of any changes to your site and it draws a crawler to reindex the content. This works on the same basic technology as the Trackback and Pingback with which you might

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Sign of the economic times? Google Lets Brands Run More Than One Search Campaign on a Keyword

Thursday, 10 September 2009 by Paul O'Brien

Did I fall asleep?Â I turn my attention from Search for a few weeks (okay, so it’s really been a bit longer) and I return to find major companies running more than one campaign in paid search! To many of you this may not be news; like I said, I’m playing catch up.Â Just the

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Published in Google, Paid Search

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Get pants like jonathan

Thursday, 06 August 2009 by Paul O'Brien

Its been lambasted and praised; I, for one, think Microsoft’s award winning jingle is brilliant. After all, the holy grail of search? Being able to find pants like Jonathan: Bing!

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The Sitemap, Your Hostess with the Mostest

Friday, 24 July 2009 by Paul O'Brien

I had a great conversation the other day with a friend who was asking about the importance of a sitemap. While a protocol exists, prompting an easy answer to most questions, it was proposed that following it didn’t really matter with Google owning search. Fine opinion to take if you are the type to put

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Published in Natural Search / SEO

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In SF next week? Come Chat with Lorna Li and myself

Saturday, 11 July 2009 by Paul O'Brien

I am very excited about the Unintentional Entrepreneur meetup next Wednesday! If in the Bay Area, I’d love to see you there! We’ll have pizza, drinks… the event is FREE! We’re going to talk about some the fundamentals of a new business; managing income, expenses, and taxes; establishing and maintaining your brand online; and quick,

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Published in Conferences / Events, Natural Search / SEO, Paid Search, Search, Social Media

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Google Please Work on the Blog Search Algorithm!

Wednesday, 17 June 2009 by Paul O'Brien

One aspect of the regular search algorithm that seems of increasing importance to blog search is authority; page rank, or what ever you want to call it. Simply, ensuring that blog search fosters the inherent premise of a blog by promoting real bloggers. I LOVE blog search. I can’t stress enough how much I prefer

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Published in Blogs & Blogging, Google, Vertical Search

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