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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). If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the first page.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; Total raised: $5.0mm.

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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). PPC is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.”

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Interview with Brandon Hance, Audiolife

socalTECH

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. for a shirt.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the same page as the search results for widgets. SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.”

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The Radical Evolution of Mobile Apps

Tech Zulu Event

Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web. Results showed that 73% have used a mobile app to make a purchase or assist them with buying decisions. Mind your content and make them personal. Google followed immediately and introduced Android.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Viral – One of the most important value drivers of any social network is the degree to which it makes content go viral. What does that mean?

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