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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. With PPC, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Cost per click (CPC). Marty Zwilling.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

With PPC, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Cost per click (CPC). For credibility with investors, stick to the organic SEO model and other revenue streams until you have the high traffic to survive on PPC revenue.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

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. But higher value product sales often require a phone call. These purchases are more complex in nature.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers. However, you are only paid for ads that generate sales. Such actions include sales, trials, leads, downloads, etc. For instance, an advertiser might pay $45 per sale, irrespective of how each are particular sale is generated. It does not happen.

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