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The First Day of the Etsy Boycott: Sellers Are Striking All Week

Tech.Co

Starting today, they're going on strike for a week in protest of the price change, which they say is just the latest in a series of decisions that have squeezed the small-business sellers who depend on the Etsy platform to survive. The strike starts on April 11th — the same day that Etsy's transaction fee increase takes effect.

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Tsavo Buys BetterPPC

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media, the startup headed by former Userplane CEO Michael Jones, said today that it has acquired Better Inc, the SEO and pay-per-click marketing software firm headed by Ben Padnos. According to Tsavo, Better provides SEO and PPC management to such clients at Paramount, Dreamworks, and Closet World.

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Earn the best backlinks with high-quality content and digital PR

TechCrunch LA

A lot is debated in the SEO world, but nearly everyone can agree that links are and will continue to be vitally important to the health and rankability of a website. I have to start by saying that the most important thing about being cited in news sources is that you have to be newsworthy. More posts by this contributor.

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This Week in Venture Capital with Jason Calacanis

Both Sides of the Table

I’d embed the video but it doesn’t seem to allow you to do this so here’s the link the This Week in Startups, Inaugural show. I also agree with Charlie O’Donnell that they won’t see to Yahoo! Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that.

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

SoCal CTO

So here's the Hot List for 1/1/2009 - 1/15/2009 Top 5 Posts The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web Why You Need To Lead A Tribe - Seth Godin LA Gets Dugg, Hammered, Screwed How To Get The World Excited About Your Business –The James Siminoff Interview Viral analytics and metrics - go viral young startup Top 20 Keywords SEO Metrics Marketing Social Media (..)

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

socalTECH

We talked with Dan to learn more about Scour, how it started, what he's hoping to do with it, plus learn more about the firm's hiring plans. Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Those points add up to a Visa gift card. What is Scour?

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Biz2Beach To Stream Live Here On TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

Tony is currently Founder/CEO for Eventify, an LA-based startup creating a venue marketplace, and Visible Factors, an SEO consulting company. He is also an advisor to multiple startups and regular speaker at conferences like SMX, SXSW Interactive, and PubCon. Tony has previously worked for organizations like PayPal, Yahoo!

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