eCommerce Optimization

October 23, 2007 | 5 Comments

Feel free to hang me from the rafters. I am a great example of a “fair weather blogger” who shifts the theme of my posts to favor the predominant theme in my life. My oldest readers are most likely in retail and online commerce, the roots of SEO’Brien founded in my eCommerce experience. [...]

Popularity: 72% [?]

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Innovative Design Through Graphical Navigation

July 26, 2007 | 2 Comments

Nothing but fun tonight, I’m having one of those days where I just can’t think about Search
I’ve stumbled across some brilliant web sites recently and want to share them as excellent examples of creative navigation, engaging experience, and effective design.

The first on my list, perhaps not surprisingly, comes from well-known marketing agency Leo Burnett. [...]

Popularity: 51% [?]

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Retail Comparison Shopping

July 24, 2007 | 3 Comments

TheFind has developed a remarkable comparison shopping engine, presenting product listings in a visually appealing, “shopping” familiar design. A female bent puts this vertical engine squarely in a niche market yet their unique approach to comparison shopping is the draw: all but guaranteeing comprehensiveness by searching “every store online” to products, brands, and stores [...]

Popularity: 49% [?]

Jun

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July Search and Online Marketing Conference and Events

June 25, 2007 | 2 Comments

Coming up this week is Searchnomics in Santa Clara, CA on Wednesday, I’ll be there and you can catch me on a panel at 22. Register today and you can still benefit from a reduced price with promo code “vol2″

As for next month:
Affiliate Summit is the must attend series and Affiliate Summit East is [...]

Popularity: 71% [?]

Jun

22

Marketing with Zvents - SEO and Shopping in One

June 22, 2007 | 4 Comments

The announcement has been made, not long ago I left HP to join the brilliant group of folks creating a remarkable event search technology at Zvents. Considering yourselves Mr. and Ms. America (not Mr. and Ms. Marketer), I’d be remiss (and not doing my job) to not mention that Zvents is where you want [...]

Popularity: 76% [?]

Apr

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Free Shipping is Not Important

April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I’ve been out of the office for the past week, welcoming my second daughter home. She arrived 9 days ago and, of course, my mind still turns to the industry that keeps us all employed. As you can imagine, we’ve started receiving gifts and presents from friends and family through FedEx, UPS, and the [...]

Popularity: 76% [?]

Apr

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Throw Hitwise on the Acquisition List

April 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

Experian, the company I know best for their free credit reports, acquired Hitwise today for approximately $240m; adding to our growing list of recent acquisitions.
Credit is by no means all for which they are known as the parent brand of well known online names including Lowermybills.com, cheetahMail, and a favorite from my old stomping grounds, [...]

Popularity: 23% [?]

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