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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

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 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).

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks!

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” Paid Search – Customers which click on sponsored ads associated with search keywords fall into this category. However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise. It does not happen.

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