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Interview With Mike Mothner, Wpromote On Growth, Acquisitions

socalTECH

We caught up with founder and CEO Mike Mothner --who we first interviewed back in 2007 --to catch up with the company, gets some hints and tips on growing a company, the challenges of bootstrapping, and why Wpromote hopes to be buying more companies in the future. So we are looking for clients looking for significant growth.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Tweet its URI (not shortened - message incl.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

requestUri; $uriParts = parse_url($absoluteUri); $requestScript = $PHP_SELF; $httpResponseCode = NULL; Block rogue bots You don’t want to waste resources by serving your valuable content to useless bots. In many cases only the piece of code handling the content can catch malformed URIs that need canonicalization.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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Interview with Milo Sindell, Knowledge Genie

socalTECH

That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies. Speaking of other site, how does this play into a world where there is so much free content out there? Plus, there's also a way to monetize that knowledge as well.

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

SoCal Delicious

The main things I like to look at are new versus return visitors, top content pages, what pages are causing bounces, etc. For example, there might be a series of flows in how users come into the site, starting with ads, SEO, or otherwise. Content creation? December 2007 (7). November 2007 (4). October 2007 (11).

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