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Chartbeat is to Blogs as Google Analytics is to Print Newspapers

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I’ve been using Chartbeat for over a month now to track performance of my blog and I find myself looking at Google Analytics much less these days. For Mahalo this often means making modifications to the story in real time both to update any facts and to improve SEO on a story that is already becoming popular. Let’s see.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She not only became an expert in SEO, she began consulting in SEO to continue to make ends meet and she became a speaker on the topic.

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8 Ways To Ensure That Your Website Is Winning For You

Startup Professionals Musings

Even more disappointing are other statistics that show most websites that do exist have a very low “conversion rate,” or ratio of visitors to the site versus ones who meet your goal of buying a product or signing up for a newsletter.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

If your web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. Online advertising is the promotion of your site and content on other sites such as pay-per-click contextual ads, banner ads, rich media ads, and ads in newsletters. You have to be found and favored by search engines.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. Direct Response Email and Newsletters – Although rightfully vilified due to the irresponsible actions of Spammers, targeted, opt-in email lists can be lucrative sources of customers. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com.

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

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What you really want to know is which campaigns drove “bottom of funnel activities” such as: Purchases, newsletter signups, subscribers, comments and so forth in the same way you’d be tracking this on Google Analytics for your SEO / SEM campaigns, direct referrals, etc. Startup Advice'

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Newsletters. blog comments powered by Disqus. Blog Software. SEO Software. Skip to secondary content. what’s hot? Star Trek Contest. Primary Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Live at the Apple Event: iPad Mini (and more?). 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. 11 hrs ago. most popular.