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Most sites have a file called Robots.txt, placed in the site root, that tells which parts of the site you may, or may not, access with non-human behaviour. Also make sure you follow fair use when you publish content (publish an abstract, always link to the source site etc.). The Electronic Frontier Foundation has some good info on legals.
In some cases you ...
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I'm assuming you mean AdWords, which is the search engine marketing product? Adsense is for placing ads on your own site.
With that assumption in place, the biggest difference between Google and Bing is the amount of usage each search engine gets. Depending on market and topic, Google can provide significantly more traffic.
Some people feel that the ...
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You mention that you will provide all capital to cover costs. That puts you in a strong position to get what you need and I see you have two choices:
use capital to buy technical resource to implement your idea, this could be by employing someone at the market rate or by contracting the work to a developer/agency. As you mention that there will be ongoing ...
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They exist because travel (tourist) industry is huge. AFAIK there are 2-3 data providers for fly ticket prices in US (at least that one friend working in such company told me). There is standard protocol for communication with such data providers. You pay some subscription fee and probably arrange some standard deal.
The problem is that this information is ...
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Well lots of things panning out here. I would suggest you first have a very good guide written by Google on SEO. Local search is one thing and generic search is another thing ( don't confuse them ).
For Local search, i would suggest you lookup this post by Bruce Clay which neatly explains what you need to do for optimization for local based keywords.
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The quickest thing you can do is get them on Google Places. It is a localised search and appears above search results anyway. The answer from Lloyd is good for SEO and you should follow those tips, but they will take time to eventuate. Google Places is a free way to get traffic through quicker.
I wrote a blog post on it here ...
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The things you can get started on right away are:
ensure page titles begin with the keywords you are hoping most people will search for (e.g. Wine Merchant New York - Company Name)
ensure every page has a unique title
ensure you have a tag which contains your keywords on each page
ensure each page contains your keyword at least 4 times
make sure you have ...
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If you are providing all the capital then it's your business and you can do what you want. Now depending on how technical the solution is you get to choose the way forwards. It may be completely feasible to hire a developer at market rates to do the work you need. In which case you won't have to hand over any of your business.
The reasons for handing ...
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