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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

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, despite low SEO rank). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Marty Zwilling.

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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). Cost per action (CPA).

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Tsavo Buys BetterPPC

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Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media, the startup headed by former Userplane CEO Michael Jones, said today that it has acquired Better Inc, the SEO and pay-per-click marketing software firm headed by Ben Padnos. According to Tsavo, Better provides SEO and PPC management to such clients at Paramount, Dreamworks, and Closet World.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Cost per action (CPA). Marty Zwilling.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Pay per click (PPC). A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Crowdsourcing.

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

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Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. We talked with Dan to learn more about Scour, how it started, what he's hoping to do with it, plus learn more about the firm's hiring plans. Those points add up to a Visa gift card. That's how I was able to fund and start ABCSearch.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Pay per click (PPC). Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. As entrepreneurs and business people, it behooves us all find and adopt changes which can improve our startup. Crowdsourcing.