How search engine marketing tools can work for you: or, searching is really all about finding, first of three articles.(Your Career)

From: Information Outlook | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: Chadwick, Terry Brainerd | Copyright information

How does one go from being a librarian and independent information professional to a specialist in search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing? In my case, it was almost inevitable.

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As the Internet became more and more of a repository for crucial information, an increasing amount of my work involved sifting through hundreds of Web sites, searching for pertinent information on a wide variety of projects in a very short time. Because it...

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