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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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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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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. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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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). See Fred Wilson’s post on Twitter referring traffic. People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks.

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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.