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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 runs the yellowpages.com site. The service also includes ability for local businesses to claim, update, and manage their business listings across a wide range of social and directory sites. READ MORE>>.

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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). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking.

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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.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). In this more popular model these days, advertisers do not pay for each appearance of the ad, but only when a user clicks on an ad and is redirected to the advertiser website. Cost per action (CPA).

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

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Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. Do you see crowd-ranked lists as ultimately competitive or complimentary to traditional and curated search? We get referring site traffic.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). People got their knickers in a twist when they saw people like Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble having advertisers and endorsing brands on their sites. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner. Then came blogs.

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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. It seemed that the main discovery mechanism was the “blog roll&# that everybody kept. It was sort of like Twitter’s list of who you follow but much, much smaller. And covered we did.