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What Google’s Content Farm News Means To You

Friday, 25 February 2011 by Paul O'Brien

For months, years, Google has been lambasted for the decreasing quality of their results. Annoyed by search results page dominated by the likes of Demand Media and other content farms, fed up with comment spam, and frustrated to the lengths everyone will go to own SERPs, the industry and consumers alike have cried from the

Published in Search

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Most Successfully Promoted Brand at Super Bowl XLV

Tuesday, 08 February 2011 by Paul O'Brien

From snow in Michigan, to catering in Phoenix, from hummus and Sushi in California, to fried jalapeños in Texas, I’ve been to my share of Super Bowl parties, but this is the first during which I almost spit out my food. No, it wasn’t the sweet and spicy combination of jalapeños in beer batter nor

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What Mobile Means to Google Search

Saturday, 29 January 2011 by Paul O'Brien

I can’t imagine this is an entirely original idea, it’s come up a couple times in discussions I’ve had with folks the last few days, but I think it’s both a brilliant conspiracy theory and a trend heavily rooted in reality. Google is Most Threatened by Mobile Think back to your experience on the internet

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Published in Google, Mobile, Search

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Writing Search Optimized Blog Posts

Thursday, 27 January 2011 by Paul O'Brien

Whether you run a site or a blog, ongoing content creation is one of the best ways to attract search engines and build equity for your domain. Consider it one of the few clearly logarithmic forms of marketing; while your early work may seem futile, over time, content depth on your site will likely trump

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Published in Natural Search / SEO

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SXSW Interactive without going to SXSW

Wednesday, 19 January 2011 by Paul O'Brien

New to Austin and building a business, the last thing I want to do is pay the hefty (but worthy) rate to attend the conference itself. While SXSWi is one of the best Interactive events of the year, simply, I have work to do. That said, while the conference generally is not to be missed,

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Published in Austin

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Fox Translate Among Many Reinventing Crowdsourcing

Friday, 07 January 2011 by Paul O'Brien

If not familiar with Crowdsourcing, I’m not surprised. While it’s one of the greatest revolutions in web services in the past few years, the concept has gone largely unnoticed due to the many disparate uses for leveraging the wisdom of the crowds. According to the crowdsourcing experts at chaordix, crowdsourcing is “a way of engaging

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Austin a Rich WordPress Community

Thursday, 06 January 2011 by Paul O'Brien

Finally feeling settled in Austin, I took my head out of the proverbial sand to pop in to an Austin WordPress Meetup hosted by Pat Ramsey. A diverse group took advantage of the Cospace hospitality to network with some peers and professionals, share a few tips and tricks, and trade resources and opportunities. If you

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Published in Austin, Social Media, Texas Startups

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