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YP Launches New Organic SEO Service

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Los Angeles-based YP , which offers up online directories and services to help businesses get their companies online, has lauched a new offering, called ypWebsite Pro. According to YP, the new product will help local businesses earn top rankings in their organic search results. YP runs the yellowpages.com site.

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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. Join Stubbs Alderton and Markiles, LLP for this exclusive event! See [link] (more)

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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. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021?

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

What most people don’t realize is, according to recent statistics , despite top positioning, only a quarter of sites selected comes from paid search. Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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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. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. 1:20 and they turned up like clockwork. And covered we did.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. If you do all these things right as a search results advertiser, you will make money from selling your product. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL). Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc.

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