Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. How do people drive SEO growth? This industry is so mature now that the cat-and-mouse game between companies and Google has gotten sophisticated.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I first learned the ropes around SEO (search engine optimization) and how for years this has been a cat-and-mouse game where people game the system (Google) through link exchanges, offshore SEO “agencies,&# widgets, algorithmically optimized content and the like that degrades the quality of search results.

News 284

News Blogging Search Engine Optimization SEO 284

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. Marty Zwilling.

PPC 154

PPC SEO Paid Search Search Engine Optimization 154

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Google Ad Sense was just getting going. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30).

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? What are some sites or companies in the same space? Most new sites need to account for mobile delivery – but on the other hand, not every MVP needs both desktop and mobile versions. Registration Do you plan to support Google Sign-In, Facebook Connect, or similar 3rd-party authentication?

Develop 520

Develop Development Technical Review SEO 520

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many adds came through organic SEO? 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.”. of the people who click on Google paid links then your true cost to acquire is actually = $12 ($1.50 / 0.125).

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community.

Los Angeles 150

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. However, as I read more about your focus, you are using these things in a slightly different way, i.e., not sure if SEO is as important. I recently posted about SEO for Startups. Is/was SEO important for MakeItWork? Any thoughts on my post?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Is SEO important? It’s well documented that response time has significant business impact: An ecommerce site that makes $100,000 per day could lose up to $2.5 Google told us back in 2010 that site speed was important for SEO. Google told us back in 2010 that site speed was important for SEO.

Startup 150

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

Yes, we have a physical product and a crossover, but it's not just slapping a web site on a consumer products good. If you want read about SEO, there are probably 30 million pages on the web about that. We're learning more about how Google Shopping works, and looking to dominate there. That's not how we think about it.

Web 225

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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).

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Our tool is integrated onto their site.

News 124

News Advertising Press Sites 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. People are so used to the Google mold. We use our own algorithm, as well as user votes.

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. Cost per click (CPC).

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

Your Google ranking will go up dramatically. Whereas Google and other search engines may take two or three weeks to list your new website in search results, new blog sites and new blog entries are indexed every day. This eliminates even the standard site hosting fees.

Blogging 104

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

As the number of sites on the Internet floats around one billion, the challenge with every new startup is to be found and stand out. More important, if someone does find your site, the content better be enticing enough for them to come back. Blogging will improve your site search engine ranking.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

One, is it makes it easy for businesses to embed that video on their own website, on blogs, and Facebook, and they can also link to that video on their Google Places page. To the extent that a business is not familiar with embedding, we also help them with that process, with claiming their Google Places page, and link that video.

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

Blogging 150

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

CTO Coach 150

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

Your Google ranking will go up dramatically. Whereas Google and other search engines may take two or three weeks to list your new website in search results, new blog sites and new blog entries are indexed every day. This eliminates even the standard site hosting fees.

Startup 101

Startup Blogging Writing Google 101

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" We sliced our Google Analytics data every which way, and these 4 patterns emerged." 8 Really Cool Web-Based Tools for Bloggers - Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog , June 1, 2010 Looking for cool applications to help you make your blog or site all it can be? This pitcher has retired 5 of the last 7 batters."

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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. One of these is blogging, to let people know about your brand, provide links to supportive articles, and generate back-links to your content from other sites.

Blogging 85

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing SEO 85

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles CTO Hire CTO Coach Develop 150

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Vic Belonogoff to learn more about Render Media, whose flagship site is Opposing Views. He was a co-founder of Applied Semantics, which started the AdSense technology, which they sold to Google in 2003. We started focused on small, niche health sites, and Oppoing Views fell into our lap.

Media 100

Media Content News SEO 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Your Google ranking will go up dramatically. Whereas Google and other search engines may take two or three weeks to list your new website in search results, new blog sites and new blog entries are indexed every day. This eliminates even the standard site hosting fees.

Blogging 93

Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Customers expect consistency of your brand name across all channels, so don’t pick a web site name if the comparable name is available or already taken on relevant social media. There are dozens of tools available to help you monitor relevant activity, including Social Mention and Google Alerts.

Product 127

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

Incubator 150

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

eHarmony 150

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with ecommerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. like Google. Search engines.

Startup 96

Startup Social Media Content Paid Search 96

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew Graczyk is founder of angel-backed Zubican (www.zubican.com)--saw a problem, which was the difficulty of finding suppliers for products for businesses--and decided to solve the problem, with a site specifically targeted at helping B2B buyers and sellers connect. We've also got SEO feed pages. What's the idea behind Zubican?

SEO 100

SEO Advertising Gogii Tech Coast Angels 100

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. You'll also be stuck with a few, well-placed Google Adwords ads, as well.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

Los Angeles 150

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