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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Google Ad Sense was just getting going. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 But Google is still showing great financial performance. The contextual ad market was attractive.

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Interview with Vince Bianco, Newsforce

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Vince Bianco: The company has been around since 2006, and we started by launching an SEO tool for press releases for professionals. The wizard, which you can find on Newsforce.com, essentially allows anybody, with little or no SEO experience, to optimize their press release for search, prior to sending it over the wire.

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Interview with Matthew Graczyk, Zubican

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It was the third week of December 2006, and I was involved with a biodiesel company. We've also got SEO feed pages. Because we have a large, structured database, we are using SEO to feed content to the search engines. b2B advertisers are willing and happy to place ads, but Google can't place them because of lack of inventory.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Topsy , for example, does respect the content producer — so morons using “Python-urllib/1.17″ or “AppEngine-Google; (+[link] appid: mapthislink)&# could obey the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), too. Also, it’s too dumb to follow chained redirects, by the way. Don’t be shy. Go rant away. Thanks in advance!

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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And Google badly messes up your URIs for click tracking purposes. 301 URI messed up by Google", TRUE, 301); header("Location: $canonicalUri"); exit; } } By definition, heuristic checks barely scratch the surface. For example add trailing slashes –if necessary–, and remove clutter from query strings. requestScript; if (!empty($qs))

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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This likely means something like Google Analytics , although there is a very large universe of equivalent tools out there as well. Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable. Via a JS interface called by the client (like Google Analytics) or server-side within your methods? July 2007 (9).

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn. WordStream – Provides software and services that help businesses manage SEM and SEO campaigns.