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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). organic search ppc search engine ranking seo

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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). What most people don’t realize is that, according to new research , 90% of search engine users rarely look at the paid results. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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YP Launches New Organic SEO Service

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According to YP, the new product will help local businesses earn top rankings in their organic search results. YP said the new product provides local businesses with a mobile responsive, content-rich website, supported by a full range of SEO services designed to improve rankings on Google and other search engines. yellowpages organic

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Local Corporation Claims Record Traffic

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Irvine-based local online advertising firm Local Corporation claims this morning that it has hit a record in total, mobile, and organic search traffic on it sites. The company said that much of the growth came from mobile and organic traffic. The company said it reached 101 million total monthly unique visitors during the third quarter, up from 92 million monthly unique visitors in the same period a year ago.

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Insights and Opinions: The 3 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Website

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Organic Search  learn how to show up in Google's free, organic search results. Our Insights and Opinions article today comes from Ryan Born , who is CEO of both AudioMicro and Audioo , both Los Angeles area startups. Ryan gives us The 3 Ways To Get Traffic To Your Website. I'm often asked about how to get website traffic, users, and customers on the web. It's almost always in the context of another entrepreneur that starting a new web endeavor.

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Making SEO and Paid Search Marketing Work for Startups

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013 -- Making SEO and Paid Search Marketing Work for Startups. Speaker: Corey Quinn, VP Business Development, The Search Agency, Inc. You'll learn: The most valuable thing you can do (and the cheapest) to get more visibility of your product / service; The 3 most important things you need to rank organically in the post Panda and post Penguin world; How to capture high quality leads with paid search and organic search marketing, and much more.

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ReachLocal Launches New SEO Offering

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Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , which provides local online marketing for small and medium sized businesses, announced this morning that it has launched a brand new, search engine optimization product, ReachSEO. ReachLocal said the new software helps SMBs to drive organic search traffic to their websites. The new product works directly with its new marketing automation software, ReachEdge, and is the first search engine optimization product to come from ReachLocal.

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

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5) Google does a great job with indexed search. FTB is taking a somewhat different approach to curated search. Do you see crowd-ranked lists as ultimately competitive or complimentary to traditional and curated search? “I’ve If someone is searching ‘best coupon website deals’, they really do not necessarily (want) one answer to their question, (rather) they want to get a ranked list (based on) hundreds of peoples’ opinions.

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Google Hell

SoCal CTO

I've worked with several businesses that were essentially based on driving traffic via search engine optimization (SEO). Bottom line - if you are basing your business on high rankings via organic search, there's pretty incredible risk. There are a wide variety of techniques that can be used, but getting high rankings is not easy and highly volatile. I just saw a Forbes article talking about Google Hell - getting placed in the secondary index.

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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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In addition, in this new digital first world, nearly every type of purchase from what's for lunch, to where's the nearest ATM, starts with a 'near me' search on Google, Yelp, or one of the many other discovery networks. The shift to consumers starting nearly every purchase with localized organic search appears to be permanent for brick and mortar businesses, so we have an immense opportunity to innovate in 2021 to help our client brands continue to adapt and succeed.

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Covario Hires Bizdev VP

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San Diego-based Covario , a developer of marketing analytics and search engine optimization software, said Thursday that the firm has hired on a new VP of Business Development. Covario develops software used to optimize search advertising, display advertising, and organic search. Covario said that it has hired on Jeff Johnson to the position, reporting to CEO Russ Mann.

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Concerns Keeping You From Social Media

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In some cases, even if you cancel your account (Twitter, Facebook…) your feed will still pop in the Organic Search showing some of the information you posted. While social media is a hot topic for individuals and businesses, you would be surprised to learn that some businesses and individuals are simply avoiding even checking it out.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Next came search results based on people paying to be high in the result set. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. 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). It turns out that when I’m there I don’t have the same intent to purchase as I did on my Google search.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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