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The Worst Advice We’ve Heard For SEO Services

YoungUpstarts

The internet is an excellent resource for learning and acquiring knowledge. Since we believe that prevention is better than cure, here’s a lowdown on some of the worst SEO advice doing the rounds over the internet. SEO goes beyond ranking, and is, in fact, about increasing conversion. SEO is a One-Time Thing.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030. The All-Seeing Eye – Hardware and storage should be rethought from the ground up in the age of semantic video understanding, and powerful on-device models.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Turns out this conversation is pretty important and what many people want to do. It’s for all of us.

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The Rising Importance Of Images In Google Search

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch (04:30): So going back to the ancient ages of the internet, you know, people would sometimes even turn images off because of bandwidth issues and things. Obviously ignoring 75% of your conversions. We're not talking about visibility or talking about conversions. They have scraped almost every image on the internet.

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Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?

David Teten

Domain names are less important than they were in the first Internet wave, because so many people will access your service on mobile and/or via apps, and because type-in traffic is declining. Other non-semantic variables are important as well. Names with homophones will cause needless confusion.

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Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning.

Steve Blank

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. It’s taking time and effort to the build the prototype.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). In the afternoon we had a corker of panel.