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It’s The End Of The Rank As We Know It…

Monday, 17 December 2012 by Paul O'Brien

In honor of the forthcoming end of the world, I wanted to spend a few minutes to share with you some perspective on the state of SEO. Yes, I know, SEO’Brien actually still spends time on search engine optimization. Truth be told, my old library analogy still stands the test of time as one of

Is the media helping or hurting our understanding of SEO?

Friday, 25 July 2008 by Paul O'Brien

CNET’s Stephen Shankland has written a thorough review of Microsoft’s BrowseRank, “Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank” but its this perspective that really tells the story. It’s maddening to see yet another naive or deliberately misleading article on an innovation in search ranking, that perpetuates persistent misunderstanding of how search works and what makes search

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Search Engine Optimization : Part 2 : Popularity (Page Rank or PageRank)

Thursday, 26 October 2006 by Paul O'Brien

Last week I brought you part one, “Accessibility” of our detailed SEO strategy. Without question, I’d argue your second focus should be on a Google concept called Page Rank.Simply put, Page Rank is popularity. Yes, it is sad but true, websites play the same game for visibility that we played in high school; popularity is

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