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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.

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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

Because of the explosion of social media and mobile as the primary, go-to consumer device for local information, Google is increasingly losing search share to local directories, social media sites and maps apps. Additionally, it is critical to make sure to syndicate out descriptions rich with keywords. Want to know where you stand now?

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Why SEO Is The Best Marketing Strategy For New Startups

YoungUpstarts

Search engine optimization (SEO) could be the perfect solution to address all these challenges at once. SEO for startups is focused on using a combination of different strategies, all of which have the effect of increasing your website’s rankings in search engines. A Briefer on SEO. Traffic Quality.

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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).

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

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 Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Cost per click (CPC).

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The Content Marketing Dilemma Faced by New Tech Startups

ReadWriteStart

It could mean syndicating an interview podcast, writing new blog posts on a weekly basis, or distributing eBook tutorials on important topics. Content is also useful for search engine optimization (SEO). Content is relatively inexpensive to produce and syndicate, but it can have incredibly powerful effects.

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4 Advanced Meta Tags For SEO You Might Not Be Using But Should

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If you’re a marketer or SEO, you likely already know about the importance of title tags and meta descriptions to help improve your rankings. If there’s a page with low quality or out of date content, it’s unlikely to convert visitors and can hurt your reputation according to Google and other search engines. How to add the robots tag.

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