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New Google Keyword Tool – Less Useful So Far

April 29, 2010, google
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/new-google-keyword-tool-less-useful-so-far/

I have been doing some keyword analysis this week, did a bunch last night and was going to do more this afternoon.  And right in the middle of my project, Google up and changed their keyword tool.  For some time now the Google Keyword Tool (GKT) has said “New Check out the new Keyword Tool [...]

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How People Read Google Results

April 29, 2010, google
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/how-people-read-google-results/

Laura Granka of Cornell University just published the results of a study she conducted on how people read and use the Google results page.  The data should cinvince you more than ever that you either need to be number one or two in results OR use a pay-per-click program. According to Granka…           56% click [...]

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Constant Contact Press Release Features The Entrepreneur School

April 29, 2010, Marketing, The Entrepreneur School
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/constant-contact-press-release-features-the-entrepreneur-school/

Constant Contact features The Entrepreneur School in a press release. The Entrepreneur School is honored to be chosen out of 350,000 Constant Contact clients. Press releases have a spider affect for links and brand recognition.

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Thomas Friedman Is Ellsworth Toohey

April 28, 2010, Entrepreneurship Quotes
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/thomas-friedman-is-ellsworth-toohey/

If you don’t know who either of them are, don’t worry.  Ellsworth did not exist and the world would be better if Thomas never existed.  But anyway, I found this passage describing Ellsworth and took out “Toohey” and replaced it with “Friedman,” and it makes just as much sense as the original.  Ellsworth is one [...]

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Government Regulations Worse than Recession

April 28, 2010, Economics, Government
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/government-regulations-worse-than-recession/

Well, I am interviewing lots of entrepreneurs for the book.  If you are new to this blog, I am writing a book on low risk entrepreneurs.  Sure to be a best seller! Today’s interviewee owns a mail order business, ships everything she sells with the USPS.  The latest USPS rate increases were teh result of [...]

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Best SEO Outsourcing Companies – Top 50 Ranked

April 28, 2010, google, Marketing, Ranking #1 on Google
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/best-seo-outsourcing-companies-top-50-ranked/

I get asked all the time about outsourcing search engine optimization.  “Is this guy any good?”  “Ever heard of this company?” Well, SearchEngineWatch.com (a great website and a source you should follow) just published a list of the top 50 firms in the World.  I highly, highly recommend you hire off this list…  Are you [...]

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The Entrepreneur Hustle

April 27, 2010, Bootstrapping, Business Ownership, Entrepreneurship Stories
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/the-entrepreneur-hustle/

I recently spoke to someone with a fledgling business, with just the occasional low-dollar sale. I started asking questions as to whether they’d done any serious research on where they could sell their product – and was shocked that they were resistant to going an extra 10 miles out to find a customer. But, but….that [...]

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Facebook Searches Double – Words per Search to 3.5

April 27, 2010, Facebook, google
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/facebook-searches-double-words-per-search-to-3-5/

Ran across two search stats I wanted to share with you…. 1 – The number of search conducted on Facebook doubled in the last year to 650 million searches.  Small compared to Google’s 10 billion, but growing faster!  Remember my series on the increasing value of Facebook advertising…. 2 – The AVERAGE number of words [...]

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Current Economic Status and Outlook

April 27, 2010, Economics, General Thoughts, Government
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/current-economic-status-and-outlook/

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Google Link Building Strategies Reviewed

April 26, 2010, google, Marketing
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/google-link-building-strategies-reviewed/

We have spoken many times about the importance of good SEO link building.  For review, your rank on Google is determined by the words on your website and by how many other sites link to you.  Your site must have keywords used in it in a natural way, so that Google can see that the [...]

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