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

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We get referring site traffic. The single largest source of growth is organic search. We’ve got a very search-friendly site; we are starting to see what Google calls ‘authority’ for terms like ‘list’ and ‘top’ and ‘best’. We haven’t had a down week for organic search traffic all year.”.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Because they wouldn’t have the enormous amounts of profits that they’ve been able to sink back into research & development. And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know). The initial data we are seeing at Ad.ly

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site.