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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

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Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007. 5) Google does a great job with indexed search. Do you see crowd-ranked lists as ultimately competitive or complimentary to traditional and curated search? We get referring site traffic.

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YP Launches New Organic SEO Service

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Los Angeles-based YP , which offers up online directories and services to help businesses get their companies online, has lauched a new offering, called ypWebsite Pro. According to YP, the new product will help local businesses earn top rankings in their organic search results. YP runs the yellowpages.com site.

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Insights and Opinions: The 3 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Website

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You shouldn't even bother starting an internet company unless you have a reasonably good change at succeeding at one of these 3 methods. Organic Search  learn how to show up in Google's free, organic search results. It's almost always in the context of another entrepreneur that starting a new web endeavor.

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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? ,p> You will be able to get to all of these posts on our 2020 reflections here. Are you a founder, CEO, or investor who would like to participate?

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

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What most people don’t realize is that, according to new research , 90% of search engine users rarely look at the paid results. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. Thus, we click!