Chris Dixon had an interesting post a while ago about how to find start-up ideas . The advice boiled down to keeping a spreadsheet of ideas and talking to lots of smart people (entrepreneurs, potential customers, VCs, people at big companies).
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How to find start-up ideas
A couple weeks or so ago, we did an SEO site review session at Google I/O 2010 . The video from that session is now live: The video is about an hour long, but I hope it’s a pretty good use of your time if you’re interested in search engine optimization. Enjoy!
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SEO site review session from Google I/O 2010
Anyone who deals with the public sector will have to deal with negative listings about them in the SERPs at some point. The most damaging of these is the “scam” listing. In this post I’ll discuss some tactics you can use to handle them.
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Dealing With a “Scam” Listing For Your Company Name in the SERPs
I’m incredibly happy that Google has added the option to search over SSL by going to https://www.google.com/ — note the “s” in “https.” I’m writing this blog post in a hotel right now because I’m in Europe for a week doing a series of tech talks, but I could just as easily be working down at local Dublin cafe with an open WiFi hotspot. In both cases, I might want to do a private search that the hotel or local cafe can’t see. A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection provides an encrypted tunnel between my browser and Google, so other people can’t sniff what I’m searching for
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A few thoughts on SSL Search
I’ve been doing SEO for a few years, with specific focus on social media and ways businesses can find their audience, their prospects and make money out of utilizing social media to generate leads. What I am still troubled to see, maybe because I live and breathe this industry, is that social media still seems a place where businesses fail
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How Do You Measure ‘IT’?
The following is a sponsored post. For this post we’re going to be talking with Chase Granberry of AuthorityLabs.com .
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Interview with Chase Granberry of AuthorityLabs.com
Today’s post is an answer to a question from Don : How to best handle pagantion, use the same description meta tags? Use the same title tags just add page 2 First off, I’m going to answer this as user: avoid pagination if at all possible. Things like slide shows or lists where you show the 5, 10, 15 or even 100 items–just don’t dothem in multiple page format.
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How to Handle Pagination
I was having a a few conversations on twitter last week. It was clear that more than one person needed a little bit more explanation about how to put some of the tips I mentioned into action, so here are 6 quick tips to help you improve your posts.
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6 Tools & Tips to Help You Improve Your Blog Posts
In the past I’ve spoken about why I turned off blog comments , but it was mostly from a time/labor perspective. Now I have another reason, one that affects everyone from an SEO Perspective.
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Why Everyone Should Turn Off Blog Comments
(I’m in the middle of traveling, but I know that a lot of people will be interested in the news that Google is incorporating site speed as one of the over 200 signals that we use in determining search rankings . I wanted to jot down some quick thoughts.) The main thing I want to get across is: don’t panic.
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Google incorporating site speed in search rankings