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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company.

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Many Websites Look Like Zombies to Google Search

Startup Professionals Musings

A while back I emphasized how important is to have a company website these days ( Publish Your Website Or Customers Won’t Find You ). I should have added that a website not optimized for search engines is lost in the heap of a billion dead websites. Make sure you have no dead links on your own site.

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Get Your Website Out of the Internet Dead Zone

Startup Professionals Musings

A while back I emphasized how important is to have a company website these days ( Startups Without a Website Won’t Start ). I should have added that a website not clearly visible to search engines is lost in the dead zone. Unless someone searches for your company by name, it won’t show up in the results.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results when users search words imply an interest in your products. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. No one, including the engineers who work on Google’s constantly evolving search algorithms, fully understands how to reliably and consistently boost search results via artificial means.

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