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

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However, from my understanding you might actually be the largest consumer website using "semantic web" technology – can you explain how that works? “In We get referring site traffic. The single largest source of growth is organic search. We haven’t had a down week for organic search traffic all year.”.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. 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).

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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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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. Folksonomy.