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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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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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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. I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). We talked about Facebook. Real-time search engine.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.”

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages. Company : FindTheBest.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages. How do you stand out?”.

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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. Google followed immediately and introduced Android. Just one year after their respective launches, Apple and Google exceeded one billion app downloads. Encourage users to rate and review the app.

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