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Register company in UK or France for French internet startup

I am a UK based web developer currently building a French language affiliate marketing website to be hosted in France. My business partners are French and I am trying to decide whether my business ...
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139 views

Hosting images outside main site?

I noticed that sites like StackOverflow host user-submitted images outside their site, (in the SO case, at imgur). I've also seen forums do the same thing. Are there advantages to taking this ...
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How much should I expect to receive per website (for web design)?

I am a student who wants to start a small web design business with a few of my friends. Our clients will be local small businesses (e.g. family-run businesses). We're not expecting them to request ...
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148 views

Is marketing the most important thing?

I was reading about the creation of mingle2.com, and what struck me as curious is that at that time (in 2007) the online dating market was well on its way to being saturated (aside from niche areas of ...
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What effect(s) does Google's Panda 2.5 update have on new websites in the SERP?

I recently launched 3 websites (within the past 7-10 months) that had been steadily increasing in the rankings on Google search up until this past weekend, when I noticed a huge drop across most of my ...
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3answers
210 views

Why did my site vanish from Yahoo and Bing search results?

I have a website that sells a software product. My site used to be high up in search results on Google, Yahoo and Bing. Stupidly, I didn't do much with the site for about two months. It slipped in ...
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133 views

What's the best way that my SaaS site can benefit from my related content site?

I will open up shop selling an idea management SaaS product on my website (lets call it BigIdea.com) in August. In order to build links, get some traffic and make a site that I think will be useful ...
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121 views

Where Does B2B Web Traffic for High Dollar Value Products/Services Typically Come From?

I am participating in the design of a web site for a B2B (enterprise software) vendor, whose offering has an initial buy-in in the low 5 digits and above. We have identified three types of ...
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105 views

How to get adoption for my widget?

I am working on a widget that shows a story of a hike on a google map. What I am wondering is - other than asking people one by one, how do I get outdoor bloggers to use my widget on their sites? ...
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505 views

How much is this site worth?

I own a site that on which I "practiced" SEO. It isn't a real business. I only make money from it by putting Google AdSense and right now it makes just under $100 per month and growing, although I ...
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2answers
139 views

How to structure the multi-layered(?) blog of a startup

So, this is likely more of an "information architecture" sort of a question... but I admit, in the last 20years of internet revolution, I've been on the frontier of pretty much every new wave... ...
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4answers
208 views

What are some common mistakes made when trying to implement SEO?

I'm no expert in this area, and I've heard that search engines can be very unforgiving when you try to change or restructure things in certain ways. What should I definitely NOT do? Are there certain ...
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11answers
1k views

What are your top 3 - 5 SEO tips? [closed]

We're working on improving our website. We're using WordPress with the "All in One SEO Pack" plugin. But I have very limited knowledge on this topic. I'm interested in hearing what your top SEO tips ...
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4answers
260 views

Can I work on my SEO and have my web site “invisible”?

Here is a kind of confusing :) web site/SEO newbie question. I was looking for answer everywhere, but it is hard to find the one I was looking for. The question: Since my product is still not ready ...
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1answer
265 views

I need ideas, your thoughts would be great!

So I have this domain called bargainstomper.com and I have been thinking all weekend about how to monetise the site. I came up with various ideas, like tech reviews leading to amazon affil links, ...
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6answers
386 views

Which web design Agency to help design a product website / launch?

We got a product and during the launch we need a good, well designed website with product features etc. Now we wrote all the features and prepared some scenarios for product showcase, videos, ...
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4answers
638 views

What is best website for SMB for SEO? WordPress or static site?

I have come across a question by a local business. When it comes to SEO, is there a difference between a website built on WordPress and one using any other means (static pages, website templates, ...
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2answers
214 views

SEO Supercharger - Fact or Fiction?

I've been getting a pitch from a company called Blackwood Productions about some SEO services that are supposed to greatly increase my organic traffic. Without going into all of the specifics, does ...
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7k views

What is the best free seo rank checker tool? [closed]

I am looking for a tool that can monitor my website rankings on search engines like Google, Yahoo bing etc .. Is there any such tool around that is free ?