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5 Ways the Wrong Domain Name Will Impact Your SEO

Tech.Co

Ward, O’Reilly author of The SEO Battlefield and CEO of CircleClick Media , said punctuation, top level domains, and even spellings can impact the ease of getting found online. Do Your Research. If the name of your company starts with the, a, or an, purchase the domain name both with and without those words.

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This Week in Venture Capital with Jason Calacanis

Both Sides of the Table

My answer: “no.&# I believe that the team is high potential but the valuation seems stratospheric to me for the stage of the company. Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. People spent a ton of time researching which gadgets to buy. now (or ever).

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8 Keys To Effective Delegation For All Perfectionists

Startup Professionals Musings

Almost every entrepreneur needs to improve their skills in this area, so I did some research on the basics. For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. The challenge is delegating the right things, and not delegating the wrong things. Pick the best person to delegate to.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Marty Zwilling.

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Many Websites Look Like Zombies to Google Search

Startup Professionals Musings

A while back I emphasized how important is to have a company website these days ( Publish Your Website Or Customers Won’t Find You ). Unless someone searches for your company by name, it won’t show up in the first few pages of any search results. SEO does not have to be a major expense.

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8 Steps To Stop Killing Yourself As A Micro-Manager

Startup Professionals Musings

Almost every entrepreneur needs to improve their skills in this area, so I did some research on the basics. For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. The challenge is delegating the right things, and not delegating the wrong things. Pick the best person to delegate to.

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Interview with Gordon Gould, SmartyPants Vitamins

socalTECH

In the case of SmartyPants Vitamins (www.wearesmartypants.com), it's at the core of the company. There was a real opportunity for me to arbitrage the last decade and a half of my experience in the Internet, and apply that to a products company, and to get some real competitive advantage.

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