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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Paywalls, by default, are a barrier to organic acquisition—they stop some users from accessing some content. At the same time, organic traffic, for many news sites, isn’t the primary acquisition source, in part because most news-related queries are new and never searched before. Metering vs. lead-in. Metering. “As

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. And will society demand to have more of the algorithmic black box that feeds it information exposed in public? That will take a long time to settle.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

It was a team of two sharp Computer Science PhDs, they had core new technology in the form of the algorithms they ran in the back-end, and also core new technology when it came to the display of information. However, the IP climate remains unchanged, and it’s likely that other villains will continue to exploit similar situations.

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

But algorithms haven’t always kept pace. IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Those informational queries are often the highest volume terms a site targets—key drivers of awareness and acquisition. But algorithms haven’t always kept pace. Geography (i.e.

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The Intersection of SEO and CRO (and How to Maximize Long Term Growth)

ConversionXL

How do you balance traffic acquisition with conversion optimization? So they update their algorithms religiously to try to do that. Well, as Google’s algorithms have advanced, the two end up being quite the same. Treat Googlebot just like any other user and don’t hard-code our user-agent or IP address.”.

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LawPivot Takes Its Q&A Legal Advice Site Nationwide

ReadWriteStart

Mandal was the lead of Apple's mergers and acquisitions team, and Gupta was an IP attorney at a several national firms. It's the addition of recommendations and algorithms to this sort of online inquiry that LawPivot's Gupta describes as "the next direction of Q&A.".

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LawPivot: Crowdsourced, Confidential Legal Advice for Startups

ReadWriteStart

Mandal was the lead of Apple's mergers and acquisitions team, and Gupta was an IP attorney at a several national firms. It's the addition of recommendations and algorithms to this sort of online inquiry that LawPivot's Gupta describes as "the next direction of Q&A.". The co-founders, Jay Mandal and Nitin Gupta, are both lawyers.