mattgratt

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by mattgratt 16y ago
If you share your site's URL, I'll take a look. (I know there are a fair number of really good SEO consultants on HN so maybe we can help.)
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by mattgratt 16y ago
Avinash Kaushik's stuff is great - http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/ And his books are also excellent - he's written "web analytics 2.0" and "web analytics - an hour a day"
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by mattgratt 16y ago
It can be helpful for SEO. If you want real media attention, you'll need either a) great social proof, b) a hot product, or c) amazing relationships (in which case you won't need a press release.)
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by mattgratt 16y ago
Get a ridiculous prize for the affiliate that does the most volume for you (like Epic's playboy mansion parties), and spend all of your time and money trying to convince large affiliate marketers to drop whoever they're pushing currently an
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by mattgratt 16y ago
YC is now the best deal that exists.
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by mattgratt 16y ago
Google Analytics exists so marketers can measure the impact their AdWords and AdSense spend is making and turn around and get a bigger budget. It doesn't really try to be a business analytics tool - nor a real time analytics tool. So the an
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by mattgratt 16y ago
I found the main benefit of attending a strong undergrad school (Berkeley) was the network you built and the exposure to other quality students. In many ways, more meaningful learning and skill-building occurs outside the lecture hall than
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Machine Learning: a Love Story (video)(infoq.com)
57 points by mattgratt 16y ago|2 comments
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by mattgratt 16y ago
0%.
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by mattgratt 16y ago
Find out what the signing authority of the interested executive is. If you're charging $1 mil +, in many companies that needs CEO/CFO level approval. That's hard to get, especially with a new technology product that the executive may not
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by mattgratt 16y ago
One trick I found for researching competitors (once you know they're competitors): - Do a linkedin search for the competitive company - Pull the names of the CTO and senior technical staff - Do a patent search based on those names
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by mattgratt 16y ago
I believe CopyPress by BlueGlass ( http://www.copypress.com/ ) is this. And those guys are some SEO geniuses - like Greg Boser?
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by mattgratt 16y ago
Art of SEO by Rand Fishkin, Eric Enge, et al - the bible. SEO in an Hour a Day - better on planning, etc. Forthcoming Danny Dover book will be good Marketing in the Age of Google has some good stuff on searcher intent. The best training res
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by mattgratt 16y ago
SEO for big money terms is difficult, time consuming, and expensive. I would only use something like this for trivially competitive terms. Blueglass' product is worth looking into (I believe it's called SecondStep) as is Optify. I don't rea
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by mattgratt 16y ago
Check out this book by Rand Fishkin (he posts here) and others - it's probably the best place to start - http://www.amazon.com/Art-SEO-Mastering-Optimization-Practic...
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by mattgratt 16y ago
Hate to tell you this, but pagerank/SEO juice on subdomains doesn't transfer back to the main domain. spkto.us/blog would be a much more effective configuration for SEO. (I assume you'd like traffic on your site from google.)
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by mattgratt 16y ago
So, what you should do now, is run linkscape ( http://www.seomoz.org/linkscape ) or another link intelligence tool of your choice on a competitive website. See those links to your competition? Figure out how to get them to link to your sit
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by mattgratt 16y ago
This is the chief argument against open plan offices - it can be difficult for people involved in intense mental work to concentrate. Would headphones w/ noise cancellation help? Even if you didn't play music through them?
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by mattgratt 16y ago
Dick Costolo (Twitter COO, Feedburner founder) wrote a great article about the organizational impact of the office lay-out back in 2007 - http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/09/no_offices.h... - he's for Open Plan offices. He sa
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by mattgratt 16y ago
Is there any evidence cited here beyond opinion? Or, strangely, does Steve Jobs' alma mater prefer a more expensive and colorful device? I think this is a difference horses for different courses. If you study English or Political Science
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IBM Looks to Africa for Next Era of Growth; Margins(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by mattgratt 16y ago|0 comments
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by mattgratt 16y ago
I'm doing a correspondence course in copywriting called "the Accelerated Program for Six-Figure Copywriting." ( http://www.awaionline.com/copywriting/ ) While it's simply unrealistic to get paid six figures for copywriting, it's helped make
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by mattgratt 16y ago
you need to recommend products. I've had some success w/ list posts full of recommended products.
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by mattgratt 16y ago
how did this make the front page?
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by mattgratt 16y ago
This sounds terrible, but when industries really boom (in the US at least), it's largely because I-bankers have figured out how to chop up and sell unprofitable businesses to people at home watching CNBC. See, for instance, internet entrepr
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by mattgratt 16y ago
WordPress templates.
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How to Get 5 Million People to Read Your Website - Matthew Inman, Oatmeal(youtube.com)
1 points by mattgratt 16y ago|1 comments
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Interview w/ Neil Patel (KISSMetrics) on metrics, angel investing, SEO, and more(grattisfaction.com)
2 points by mattgratt 16y ago|0 comments
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by mattgratt 16y ago
corrections: ...on customer support later, so this is viewed as mission critical for reducing costs and increasing customer satisfaction. This is not a web app where you can do continuous deployment. many OEMs have unique product managers
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by mattgratt 16y ago
1) Yes. Verizon gets them earlier than most, so I assume they get early builds that use more of the core network features - most of the testing done is network testing, E911 compliance, etc. They're not making sure 'Angry Birds' works. Th

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