Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

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). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per click (CPC). Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. It should lead to higher conversion rates and happier customers. Early evidence is good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Cost per click (CPC). It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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