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

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I'm often asked about how to get website traffic, users, and customers on the web. It's almost always in the context of another entrepreneur that starting a new web endeavor. You shouldn't even bother starting an internet company unless you have a reasonably good change at succeeding at one of these 3 methods.

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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> And we saw a record number of 278 million clicks to local web pages as more consumers looked to connect with businesses locally.

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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. However, from my understanding you might actually be the largest consumer website using "semantic web" technology – can you explain how that works? “In We get referring site traffic.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

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. was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. That was a kerfuffle too.

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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. We’re looking at innovative companies that will enable new forms of mobile advertising.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

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. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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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. Folksonomy.