SEO Firms Must Become Digital Media Agencies
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
by Paul O'Brien
One of these days, Marketers are going to learn. It will be a new dawn for marketing! A shining era in which everyone recognizes how interwoven search is with everything a business does. Until then, we’ll continue to plod along… Joe Devine, CEO of The Search Engine Guys in Austin, Texas knows this all too
- Published in Advertising, Search, Social Media
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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
Social Networks Make Poor Advertising Bedfellows
Wednesday, 21 November 2007
by Paul O'Brien
Things aren’t looking good for social networks. The bandwagon web platform which has everyone starting a new company has proven effective in attracting an audience yet, to add insult to injury (I think it is safe to say Friendster and MySpace have proven retention a challenge – the injury), it seems monetization is still out
- Published in Display Advertising, Social Media
Sphinnaanites Unite! Welcome to the Sphinn Revolution
Thursday, 27 September 2007
by Paul O'Brien
Yes, it is my new best friend. A digg-like news and resource aggregator that filters based on the popularity of content. At its peak, I had over 100 search and marketing related blogs on my reader before turning to Yahoo Pipes to mash them up in hopes of finding the gems among so much content.
- Published in Blogs & Blogging, Fun, Insights / Research, Social Media
Build and Support a Community of Evangelists
Friday, 30 March 2007
by Paul O'Brien
“Bad behavior in the blogosphere” That’s the headline from yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle referencing the recent threats against Kathy Sierra, a popular blogger (Creating Passionate Users) and author who stresses the importance of web design. I’m not going to make news of her terrible experience as, rather than an article worth repeating, it was that
- Published in Blogs & Blogging, Natural Search / SEO, Social Media
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