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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

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, despite low SEO rank). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking.

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

InfoChachkie

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”. FTB is taking a somewhat different approach to curated search. We get referring site traffic. The single largest source of growth is organic search.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). There are many additional variables that the inexperienced marketer may not even think to consider: competition and positioning strategies, budgeting, match types, search and content syndication, and ad copy testing, as well developing the best ad wording and layouts.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). People got their knickers in a twist when they saw people like Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble having advertisers and endorsing brands on their sites. If we continue our success we will have strong competition.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Page 3: Competition. Tim handled the product management, vision, roadmap and competitive questions like a pro. It was sort of like Twitter’s list of who you follow but much, much smaller.