When I thought I knew nothing about SEO

I spent over 3 years at QIMR Berghofer creating web content, setting up social media accounts, and waging war with a clunky proprietary CMS to produce the best possible experience for the donors, patients, scientists and corporate staff.

Being self-taught, I was reading constantly as SEO developed into a fully fledged field, and sought out little things I could do to improve our rankings. Unfortunately, ‘cancer’ and ‘mental health’ are flooded keywords, and ‘infectious diseases’ was never going to be the success story that brought thousands of readers to our humble site.

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Why I loved and hated my paramedics experience

What they don’t tell you about signing up to save a life

It was only 6 weeks. Suited up with high vis lettering on my back denoting my student status (as in, please don’t confuse me with someone who knows what they are doing), sitting in the back of an ambulance with the stretcher, holding on for dear life as we swerved around corners on a code 1 call, sirens blaring.

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