Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

There are dozens of tools available to help you monitor relevant activity, including Social Mention and Google Alerts. If they credit you in their blog or industry articles, those backlinks will boost your SEO ranking, as well as your perceived reputation online. Consistently review and respond to relevant online feedback.

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APRIL 23, 2011

Richard coincidentally cites Mike Yavondite’s Qiigo as an example; Mike was a guest on TWIVC later that day. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. But Google is still showing great financial performance. Fansnap is an example, search for ticket purchases.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

For example, I highly recommend a set of board metrics that the CEO communicates to board members at every meeting. How many adds came through organic SEO? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

The area which probably is really attuned to your readers, is we also serve many mid-market, growth oriented companies that are looking to grow and acquire customers, with paid and earned digital channels, paid search, paid media, social, email, and organic SEO, as well as digital PR and content. What are your thoughts on that?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Perfect example; ShoeBoxed.com. A great example of a website displaying amazing social proof with client results is Killian’s Workshop for how to book commercials. To learn how to advertise on Google to get traffic to your website or offline business read “ Advanced Google Adwords ” by Brad Geddes. See the example below.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. However, as I read more about your focus, you are using these things in a slightly different way, i.e., not sure if SEO is as important. I recently posted about SEO for Startups. Is/was SEO important for MakeItWork? Great stuff!

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

For example, some of my biggest competitors--such as Flintstones vitamins--have been around for 40 years, have virtually no web presence, and a PageRank of 2. For example, if you put fish oil with copper, you oxidize the copper, and that's that. If you want read about SEO, there are probably 30 million pages on the web about that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Almost every online business I know (eCommerce, online software, mobile games) invests heavily in “customer acquisition” This includes investments often not properly measured (SEO, PR, Social) as well as costs that people measure more precisely (advertising, SEM, FB CPA/CPI ads). Take for example, an eCommerce company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

None of the small businesses, these spas, have the expertise or the budget to actually understand lead generation, SEM or SEO, or even know how to manage retention, referrals, expertise, or how to customize or streamline their processes. What's different about our business model is to bring them customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, if a company website generates extensive visitor traffic at a particular point in time, the enterprise may continue to serve customers without obvious interruptions in service because its cloud-based server architecture permits the distribution of visiting traffic among servers in different locations. Enhanced Platform Mobility.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. MakeSpace provides physical storage. Let me be very direct.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. People are so used to the Google mold. We use our own algorithm, as well as user votes.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

I thought it might be valuable (and fun) to share some of those “mobile surprises” with you: SEO (Search Engine Optimization). what you can see with out scrolling down) probably get well over 85-90% of all of the downloads (much like on Google). I bet there is a lot that would surprise you about the mobile world.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you want it to be private, for example if you're a consultant or teacher, you can share it with a pre-identified audience for that knowledge by publishing it privately and inviting others to log into Knowledge Genie to share that knowledge. The second example, is you can publish it in public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Blogging is an important way to build an audience and also drive SEO traffic. I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products. Then you can install Google Analytics to your website. What should you blog about? You then need a URL.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It is a platform that allows anyone who offers a service to advertise it for free – we promote this profile on the most popular social networks such as Twitter , Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Stumbleupon and many more. For example on Facebook we have had 3,248 comments on the last 100 posts. Have you had any challenges?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Write those down and then head over to Google Keyword Tool. Copy and paste your list of 10 into the white box at the top of this example below. And to the right you can see the amount of people who search Google for your search terms. Brainstorm 10 words that relate to the subject you want to write about. Pretty cool huh.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

In the example above, you may find that although radio listeners cost $50 more than your average cost per customer, they may correspondingly have a longer life and thus a higher lifetime than your average customer. Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. Although such agencies are relatively rare, they do exist.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

This likely means something like Google Analytics , although there is a very large universe of equivalent tools out there as well. Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable. You might, for example, hold events in the rough key/value form: user_id, event_name, value, datetime. Make sense?

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday.Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site.Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site.To

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”. Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media. Online Partnerships / Distribution Deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). compatible; …&#. googlebot.com&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash. requestScript; if (!empty($qs))

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