Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

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 paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. Paid Search – Customers which click on sponsored ads associated with search keywords fall into this category.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company. But obviously Google won the war. That gave Google a huge cost advantage.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350