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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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Local Corporation Claims Record Traffic

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Irvine-based local online advertising firm Local Corporation claims this morning that it has hit a record in total, mobile, and organic search traffic on it sites. The company said that much of the growth came from mobile and organic traffic.

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

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Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007. We get referring site traffic.

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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. But 70% of my investment decision in early-stage companies is the team. was the 2-way web.

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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. For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC).

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Intent man works for the wrong company.