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Online Marketing Heroes

Wednesday, 05 March 2008 by Paul O'Brien

Certainly, one has to have a degree of ego involved with starting one’s own blog, after all, these are my thoughts; thoughts I presume are of interest to someone. Sure, perhaps it isn’t really “ego” but, needless to say, I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t hope someone cared and derived a modicum of

Published in Advertising, eCommerce, Insights / Research, Search, Social Media

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How to Explain SEO to the Illiterate – the Library Analogy

Thursday, 27 December 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Having spent the past few days with family and friends for the Holiday, I repeatedly found myself in the situation of trying to explain search engine optimization and how websites are not simply ‘found’ through Google. Peppered with questions about how SEO is Marketing or why Google doesn’t just do a better job, I can

Published in Fun, Insights / Research, Natural Search / SEO

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