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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

Founded in 2005, the company has since delivered more than $1 billion from employers to freelancers. In our customer service team we have a hundred freelancers, in our trust and safety team we have another hundred, in our engineering team we have close to 150. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5

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My Notes From The Ed Dale Internet Marketing Seminar

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Going into this event I wasn’t exactly sure what the topic was, since Ed and his team dabble in all kinds of subjects, from niche sites, to SEO and website flipping. We’re still talking about title tags and incoming links as the most important SEO variables to focus on.

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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Except I disagree with that definition of “success.” And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). Hey, actually that is a pretty good reason!

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Binxy Baby kind of just ended up being the name that checked all my boxes and had an available URL— a definite must-have for an online business. Company names are uber important for two main reasons: determines how easy prospects will remember your brand name AND improves the SEO of your site if you use keywords that relate to that industry.

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10 Reasons Podcast Guesting is the #1 Killer Content Marketing Tactic of All Time

Duct Tape Marketing

I have been earning a living from search engine optimization for over 12 years and I’ve tried every tactic at one time or another. Ever since Google started dropping algorithmic bombs around 2011 (think Panda, Penguin, and so on), SEO industry behavior has changed. Dwell time has been a hot SEO topic for the last year or so.

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Transcript of Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

And I think that in the early days it was sort of novel that people had content, and obviously like you said, the search engines didn’t have as much content to chew through so they would surface your content. So really, it’s like old-school SEO, although we never use those letters ever. John Jantsch: Yeah.

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Brand-Owned Terms: The Power—and Process—of Naming a Movement

ConversionXL

Reverse engineering the origins of brand-owned terms is not a breakdown of the step-by-step planning that led from term identification to widespread acceptance. In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.”

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