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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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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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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”. However, from my understanding you might actually be the largest consumer website using "semantic web" technology – can you explain how that works? “In

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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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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. So did the media.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic. We can technology enable offline advertising. Early evidence is good.