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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

For sustainable, valuable search traffic, you’d better provide it. Satisfying search intent is Google’s fundamental goal. A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. How Google (and others) define search intent.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

Is the Potential Acquisition Searching or Executing? Remember, the definition of a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. ( Startups are those companies that are still in the process of searching for a business model.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

Defensible IP When I’m asked by newer, younger VC partners for advice on our sector, one of the things I always emphasize is looking for companies who have built defensible intellectual property (IP). Users type a search query into their search bar and Google knows the “purchase intent” of the customer. Over the past 2.5

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Data Discrepancies in Google Analytics: What Can Go Wrong, Why, & How to Fix It

ConversionXL

Thank you pages” for lead forms are often generic—and, by default, set to be indexed by search engines. This can cause those pages to appear in search results for brand queries (even showing up as sitelinks beneath the homepage ). Exclude office IP addresses using Google Analytics filters. Why does it happen? How to fix it.

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EU Cookie / Privacy Laws: Implications On Data Collection And Analysis

Occam's Razor

Information like IP address, the page requested, time stamps, browser ids and more are stored. But information like IP address, browser user agent id, time stamps, page urls and much more are recorded in web logs. Nuance on the cookie issue:] Cookies are fine, IP addresses can't be collected or only partly collected.

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Five signs it’s time to get your business organized

www.greenhornconnect.com

So the short answer is: the sooner the better; but here are five telltale signs it’s definitely time to form a company. 1) You and your partners have developed IP critical to your business. As soon as valuable IP is developed, founders should assign their rights in the IP to a company in exchange for an ownership stake.

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Transcript of Creating a Winning SEO Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

In other words, if you’re trying to check on results and track results, sometimes it’s a little challenging if your IP address is in Kansas City, Missouri. I search all my favorite sites all the time and so in my view of search, they’re going to probably rise to the top, aren’t they?

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