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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). The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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

Both Sides of the Table

He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search.