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How To Deliver Documents

Why hack?

The world of startups is so unpredictable that you need to be able to modify your dreams on the fly

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Paul Graham

http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

The world of startups SEO is so unpredictable that you need to be able to modify your dreams on the fly

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Tom Critchlow Paul Graham

Just Do It

We thought that the most important quality would be intelligence. But as long as you're over a certain threshold of intelligence, what matters most is determination. 

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Paul Graham

4 Weeks Is All It Takes

Hacks are agile, not powerful.

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How To Deliver Documents

Inspiration

YouTube Ranking Data

Google Local Research

How many KWs have image results?

Track +1s by URL:http://dis.tl/bulkplusone

http://dis.tl/ehow-scraper

Social Content Analysis

Social Data

How To Deliver Documents

Your first hack: Google Docs

Unstructured data

Getting Started =importxml()

Google “importxml guide”

A Little Bit of HTML

Mmmm. Data!

Introducing Google Scripts

Now for the magic…

How To Deliver Documents

Your second hack: Google Appengine

Deploy Code With One Click

A website I made in 30 mins

Bulk SEO Metrics Lookup

Backlink Scraper:http://dis.tl/link-scraper

How To Deliver Documents

Other Options

Mozenda.com - No Technical Knowledge Needed

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/keyword-research-tool

Smarsheet.com

How To Deliver Documents

API Gallery

Alchemy API – all things text related

Topsy API – all things twitter related

Topsy API also does histograms

Authority Labs API – Bulk Rank Checking

Google Analytics API

Bonus: GA API -> Google Docshttp://www.automateanalytics.com/2010/04/google-analytics-data-to-google-docs.html

http://graph.facebook.com

BuiltWith API

SEMRUSH – Bonus BR Language Support

SEOmoz Link Data API

http://dis.tl/seomozgdocs

Programmeableweb: search engine for APIs

The Sky Is The Limit

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Tom Critchlow

VP Operations NYC

www.distilled.net

tom.critchlow@distilled.net

@tomcritchlow

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