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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Marty Zwilling.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Marty Zwilling.

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5 Biggest Small Business Marketing Challenges (and How To Overcome Them)

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s unlikely that you’ve got the budget for nationally syndicated ads or a commercial during the Super Bowl. And, if you really want to improve your visibility online, target SEO. SEO (search engine optimization) is the practice of building web pages that are clearly visible to search engines.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches.

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8 Ways That Blogging Will Kickstart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

After a few blogs about your concept, the comments better match your passion, or it’s time to rethink your idea. If you post on industry sites, or get syndicated to popular sites, your scores and visibility will go up even more. Each can be linked directly into your site domain name for maximum SEO impact.

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A 5-Step Process To Generate Leads for Your Boring Product Content

Brandanew

The root of the problem is SEO. You’ve got sites like The Muse dedicated to it, which gets syndicated to Forbes & Mashable. Make sure you can match the tone and cater for their audience and that they accept guest posts. How do you solve the content puzzle for traditionally “boring product content?”

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How to Pick the Right Name for Your Business

mashable.com

It sure is nice to have your company name match your web address. It is a good practice to matching as much as possible as the first goal, between twitter, domain, and other social media URL names. Global Syndication Partners. January 16, 2012 14:10:08. Flag this comment. January 16, 2012 14:24:44. Flag this comment.

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