Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

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.

PPC 154

PPC SEO Paid Search Search Engine Optimization 154

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Luckily, some of the folks at TechEmpower just posted Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application. Is SEO important? million in sales every year for just a 1-second page delay. Google told us back in 2010 that site speed was important for SEO. One notable gap in the 32 Questions post is Performance.

Startup 150

Startup SEO CTO Coach Web 150

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

In this guide: Free Business Tools Best Communication Tools Best Cybersecurity Tools Best Project Management Tools Best Marketing Tools Best Financial Tools Best HR tools Best Sales Tools Next Steps: Moving Forward With a Solution Best Free Business Tools for Startups Not every startup will have a budget for smart software.

Tool 128

Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 128

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

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). Cost per click (CPC).

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Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

Equally important, if someone does find your site, your content must stand out above all similar sites, to keep visitors engaged, close a sale, and get customers to return. All of this is possible on every small business budget, since all the major blogging platforms, including WordPress, Blogger (Google), and Tumbler are free.

Blogging 85

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing SEO 85

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many adds came through organic SEO? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. SEO is seldom “free.”. How many through SEM?

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Metrics Startup SEO Custom 346

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Traditional software vs. SaaS. Connections? FourSquare. Everywhere.

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Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364