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Rand Announces Advanced SEO Analytics Engine Linkscape at SMX East

Paul O'Brien — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:46:14 +0000

I’ve just seen the future of link analytics and it is SEOmoz. Perhaps the most engrossing and entertaining presentation at SMX East was Rand Fishkin’s introduction of Linkscape, an advanced link intelligence engine delivering rich data to website owners and SEOs regarding inlinks, related anchor text, trust, and rank. SEOmoz has indexed over [...]

The Future of the Internet

Paul O'Brien — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:11:08 +0000

Having pointed out my complete ignorance of the cheerleading world yesterday (”Can I Get an S?”??), I feel I need to steer the laughs, jeers, and finger pointing as far away from me as possible in hopes of staving off the cheer hate mail no doubt being written to me even as we speak. [...]

Can I Get an S? Can I Get an M? Can I Get an X?

Paul O'Brien — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:08:42 +0000

Is that grammatically correct? If S is a consonant, should it be “Can I Get a S?” an S? Who’s going? I couldn’t be more excited; the conference is expecting over 2,000 search marketing professionals, agencies, and marketers and I haven’t been to NYC in some time. Monday through Wednesday next week, [...]

Local Search Engine Zvents Raises $24M

Paul O'Brien — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:47:38 +0000

Let me diverge from my usual contemplations to share with you some news about the company that keeps me busy, in a rare post about Zvents. Today, the local search engine announced $24M in funding, secured with Nokia Growth Partners, AT&T and NAVTEQ. “Zvents has spent four years building a world-class local search [...]

Online Shopping Expectations This Holiday

Paul O'Brien — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:47:45 +0000

eMarketer has a great jump on the holiday shopping season (it isn’t even Halloween yet!) with brilliant perspective on the increasing demands made by online consumers. They expect retail Websites to provide powerful search and navigation, quality product information, simple checkout and cross-channel shopping options—at a minimum. Surprisingly, according to a survey by Retail Systems Research, [...]

AdBrite Continues to Impress, Making Rich Media Turnkey

Paul O'Brien — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:21:38 +0000

How does one best distribute online video promotions, rich format advertisements, or engaging interactive banners? With the incremental cost of media creation, marketers need the most efficient and effective means of delivery and targeting available. Adbrite has announced that it now supports rich media across a network of 70k sites. I’m told [...]

Book of the month club?

Paul O'Brien — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:54:16 +0000

Should I start one? I don’t read enough but I feel like I keep coming across books that are worth your while. We’ve taken a random walk through search about books, caught up with Lance Loveday, and even plugged a little ole book that features me (teehee!). I get a kick out [...]