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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

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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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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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3 Laws of SEO

Tuesday, 19 May 2009 by Paul O'Brien

If one were to distill all of the considerations associated with search engine optimization (not withstanding the new developments in semantic search), I’ve been asking myself if it isn’t possible to summarize 3 immutable laws of SEO. Hearken back a moment to elementary science and roll with me, so called laws are considered invariable facts

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Published in Natural Search / SEO, Search

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The 12 Days of an SEO Christmas

Friday, 19 December 2008 by Paul O'Brien

The folks at Kettlewell Enterprises in Colorado have come up with a cute take on the 12 Days of Christmas… for SEO. The song caught my attention because I have just spent the better part of a few days researching and writing a piece about the history behind the actual 12 Days of Christmas. On

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Published in Fun, Natural Search / SEO

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