SEO should not be "the strategy", it should be one of many customer acquisition tools in the startup toolkit. I also believe that the notion that you can't hav

SEO should not be "the strategy", it should be one of many customer acquisition tools in the startup toolkit. I also believe that the notion that you can't have a great user interface and optimize for SEO at the same time is wrong. Well optimized websites have a lot of additional content below the fold on their home pages. Most users don't see it, but the search engines do. Re: Jonknee - SEO is tough in general to do it effectively and build backlinks you need to be createive. RE: artisdb: He does provide a link in the comments section for what you're looking for. I'd also take a look at McClure's Slideshare for other ideas - http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-long-version http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pir... (acquisition part of diagram is on slide 3). Re: Sawyer - that's a very interesting point. I'm surprised modern search engines haven't found a way around ajax and other modern techniques. i would assume they're close since they rolled out ajax tools for adsense recently.