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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

Proxies like backlinks and keywords have long been—and still are—stand-ins for the likelihood that a web page will satisfy user intent. Those informational queries are often the highest volume terms a site targets—key drivers of awareness and acquisition. Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists.

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. 1) Industry reports. 3) OnePagers.io.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid. billion.) So what’s left?

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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

www.pakman.com

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. Much of the valuations around the consumer web are rationalizing, and because of that, investors are once again focused on understanding business models. Andres Moran.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. In fact, I encouraged my favorite IM aggregator client, Digsby , to go the opposite direction and become a Twitter client also.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. And so, the web is starting to realise that sometimes we want to be known, and at other times we don’t.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. And so, the web is starting to realise that sometimes we want to be known, and at other times we don’t.